Mythology and Folklore

Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit ( Wikimedia ) Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit, Part B Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again : Central focus on crops, to have land and crops meant a great deal in this time, so it was truly devastating for the characters to have lost all of their crops. Might be interesting to have Reynard get tricked into helping Brer Rabbit raise many more crops.  Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear: Interesting difference here where Bear is presented as a much less aware/high profile figure. In other stories he is Judge Bear or making statements to the community about how they should get along almost like a reverend.  I like the knowledgeable, governing bear character better than this one who gets tricked, but this one might play better into a storybook with Reynard.  Not sure what a goober patch is but I like the feel it gives to the story, the word itself lightens things up, could be good for Storybook or retelling.  Apparently goobers are peanuts.  Interest...

Brer Rabbit and Tar-Baby by Joel Chandler Harris ( Wikimedia ) Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit, Part A The Calamus Root : I really like the use of dialect to characterize this story, it really gives it a nice feel that almost immediately makes the reader feel as if they are in the era these stories came from. It reminds me much of the style of Huckleberry Finn and the likes. I really like this dialect used, but with the historical context I would have to be very careful in trying to create my own. A better alternative I might use to mimic this kind of dialect is to try and recreate the dialect often employed by Mark Twain, something that speaks more to my roots  I like the character of Brer Rabbit as a classic trickster for my overall Storybook, I think it would be really cool to see Reynard, a legendary European trickster, square off against a true American trickster. I also saw a number of mentions of tricksters in the Asian unit, so I might explore some of those next week to g...