Mythology and Folklore

Grand Teton in Winter ( Wikimedia ) Reading Notes Week 10: Great Plains, Part B (EC) Two Teton Ghost Stories: · First story is interesting, short so it leaves much to the imagination. As soon as he fears the female ghost she disappears, could do something interesting here by injecting thematic symbolism. · The second story is another cool setup that leaves much to the imagination. The man has an interaction with the ghost, shoots them in the head, and then he ends up at a gravesite where movement has demonstrated there is a wound in the skull that appears to have an injury like one would from a shot to the head. o I want to take this story and mix it with an old west tale. I want to keep aspects of this story where the protagonist is not afraid of ghosts at the beginning noting, “Should I meet any danger by and by, I will shoot. I am a man who ought not to regard anything.” In the retelling I will have the protagonist as a young Native American raised in a frontier t...

American Bison ( Wikimedia ) Reading Notes Week 10: Great Plains, Part A The Creation: · Interesting realization I just had, many creation stories assume that the original “beings” came from the sky. Why is this? · Might be interesting to try a creation story, many different directions for retelling · My mind goes to a modern retelling of this, Sun and Moon telling Osages to go down to Earth might parallel well with parents telling millennials to move out: The Creation (of millennials). · Earth covered with water, but animals still present, a bit confusing · I like the character of the Elk. Elk, for whatever reason, have always been associated with the wisdom of a forest, ancient wisdom, that kind of thing · Crawfish is an interesting choice for savior of the earth, might be interesting to retell this tale from his perspective. Three Ghost Stories: · These stories are interesting to consider as evolutionary mechanisms, as both the a...