Mythology and Folklore

More Mice Mice (Wright) The Cockerel, the Cat, and the Young Mouse  the young mouse had to learn a lesson on who to trust based on looks it is looks that men deceive  The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid  This time period seems to be the time that animals morphed into humans  a man marries the mouse that fell and hurt itself then became human  like the woman into a cat  but then the man kills a rat that shouldn't of been around and angers his wife  humans and rats are too different.  duh More Mice (Wright) The Council Held By the Rats  a cat has been terrorizing rats so they have a meeting  helpless  The Cat and the Old Rat  the stories are much more metaphorical  the beginning ones were short and clear  Do not trust so easy  The Tortoise; The Bat (Wright) The Tortoise and Two Ducks  the same story has told before  written in more of a cu...

The Hare and the Tortoise   Foolish Animals (Larned, with audio) Hare and the Tortoise  most classic version I have read  consistent in rhythm but changes rhyme pattern  The Ass in the Lion's Skin  Definitely meant for children written much simpler than other versions  The Frog and the OX  Like the Ass in the lion's skin, written more for children creates better visuals  More Foolish Animals (Larned, with audio) The Dog and His Image  I love these paintings to go with the stories  The City Mouse and the Country Mouse  These are like the old classics I had always heard  Good imagery  The Monkey and the Cat  Interesting matchup reminds me of all the stories where the monkey was involved but never with a cat  cat tricks monkey for nuts  Foxes (Larned, with audio) Reading these out loud makes me feel like I'm reading Humpty Dumpty ...

Dogs Wolves (Smart) Smarts fables are truer to life nature  the wolf seems to be the most ruthless of them all over the lion  More Wolves (L'Estrange) An Agreement between the Wolves and the Dogs**  could be adapted to fit another story with a similar moral  Dogs (Smart) The Bitch and Her Puppies** The Dog and the Crocodile** Smart seems to have the darker vision out of the three contributors  More Dogs (Boothby) The Embassy of the Dogs of Jupiter was such a weird fable very far fetched, pun intended  semi Typical fable of Boothby  Yet More Dogs (L'Estrange) A Trusty God and his Master** Want to rewrite this one two paragraphs first with one side of the story second with another side of the story  Rash Action  Cats and Weasels (Smart) Weasel and Mouse Roman version of cat and mouse  The Battle of the Mice and Weasels  Smart gets clever when rhyming wi...

The Peacock & Juno The Gods (Davies) Beauty contest among baby animals?  First time I have actually read some stories out loud  Very thankful for the preface's of each fable Jove's Cask I like the rhythm of this fable  The Workman and Fortune  Clever, also a good message about responsibility  More Gods (Smart) Longer, more story to them Juno and the Peacock* Has great moral to the fable could rewrite to mirror today  Fables about People (Boothby) The Boy who Cried wolf  aka the World and the Sheperd's Boy I had never read the original before  The Golden Goose  aka The Man and the Goose  again, never read the original before  Shorter than I thought, but really flows off the tongue  The Housewife and her Hen** Very good and simple to recreate for today  More Fables about People (L'Estrange) first fables by L'Estrange  must longer, not cut up lang...

Jingles: Hey Diddle Diddle Nursery Rhymes: Jingles Cock-a-doodle-doo is fun and the story is cute too  I did not know that tweedledum and tweedledee came from a jingle  truly no better way to describe these tales other than jingle  Rub a dub dub has a queer humor to it  Nursery Rhymes: Love and Matrimony Jack and Jill  Different versions of "roses are red" Mentions Canterbury, reminds me of the tales  still do not know what &c means  Slightly shows how marriage was handled between sexes then  Mostly narrative songs, probably acted out  Nursery Rhymes: Natural History, Part 1 Natural history is typically how the earth was created or explains why something is a certain way in these tales its really just playful animals and humans some end with mocking humans or using them  Some animals are pets, also talks about the elements like wind  Interactions of human and animal, fictional natu...

Riddles: Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhymes: Tales little confusing on when a tale ends and a new one begins  slight rhyming, not very forced  they have the mother goose and golden egg in this section, could write about this one most follow an aa, bb stanza  Nursery Rhymes: Proverbs thought it would be about the bible  handled more of little day to day advice  guideline of morals  seems like a good way for kids to unconsciously remember what to do Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 1 longer, tell more of a story fox doing the tricking again makes me wonder how the songs are actually sung and in what setting  mostly aa, bb, cc stanzas  also a lot of ab ab  Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 2 The songs are the most difficult to take notes one they seem to send regional or cultural advice  but still hard to be sure because the context in which the songs were used  Hot Cross Buns!  Three blind mice...

The Ghost and the Traveler Reading B:  Two Teton Ghost Stories Indian alone during a storm, found a sweat lodge two ghosts were in it   Man alone at night prepared to shoot with someone approaches  Man shot a ghost that was watching him the woods, the man went to later see where the ghosts were wailing and found a wound in the skull  The Indian Who Wrestled with a Ghost Man sleeping in the woods for a few nights  one night a ghost approaches him and asks to smoke, then says they should wrestle if he wins wrestling the ghost said he will win against his enemies and steal some horses the man won and the ghost was right The Wakanda, or Water God Mother and father loved their son, the boy drowned playing  father so sad he could not sleep in the lodge, but on the floor, because he could hear his son crying under the ground  wanted to dig into the ground, found two men that said the water god has the son, but he ate the ...

Taken From: "Sacred Legend"  READING A: The Creation Deals with tribes Osages lived in the sky Mother: Moon  Father: Sun Osages were told they had to go live on earth The earth was covered in water  Asked the Elk for help  Elk called to help from the winds, which took the water upward Sacred Legend Again, the people start in the water  We could not see, but when we first came up we saw daylight  kind of sounds like us in the womb Found, land Lived next to a big body of water Hunted deer with clubs Didn't know what to do so found stone and chipped it into arrows and knives Eventually made fire, then learned to make a pot to cook  Learned to make hides from their kills to cover things up and wear  Basically described the origin of many Native American traditions  Corn, hide clothing, arrows, axe, canoes  The Legend of the Peace Pipes Made out of the feathers of the owl, woodpecker,...

Coyote and Hare/ Coyote and Fawns Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range The Hawk and Crow created the ranges from mud and tobacco  Hawks were the Sierra Nevadas which are bigger Had other birds help them Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu'-la (El Capitan) It is named after the measuring worm two boys were playing in water, got tired and slept for a long time the rock grew very tall  all animals tried to get the kids down but the worm was the only one who could White men call it El Capitan The Children of Cloud They went looking for their father after their mother told where he was  They had to prove they were his children  they had smilier powers  They encountered other animals on the way and were turned into mescal's  Took place near Tucson  The Boy who Became a God the boy got songs, medicines, and clothing from animals  way to long to be a tale  loads of narration, spats of simple dialogue throughout  Or...

The Creation of the World  Three Coyote Creation Stories Tells the end of the story at the beginning  coyote started the creation, eagle finished it Coyote and fox created man  Coyote brought fire  Rely heavily on animals for earth's creation  New story could be "If Dogs Created the World" waterways were created from Indians crying over those who died   Coyote seemed to save and fix a lot of earth's beginning problems  The Creation of the World Earth doctor is responsible for creating the earth, sun, moon and starts  only discusses earth creation not the creation of people  Spider's Creation Spiders were the only living creatures at one point  Spider sang for a long time and created two woman first then animals followed  then the two women (the two mothers of all) created the moon and sun and were leaders of people and the other of different nations The Great Fire; The Origin of Light Coyot...

The Humming-bird and the Carabao The Iguana and the Turtle later into the Filipino tales, morals are shared at the end This one was more difficult to figure out  do not trust so easily the one who trusts foolishly will be injured  This time the turtle was the trickster so that's a change  Why Mosquitoes Hum explains that a long time ago, people believed tales that gave great meaning to things yet it starts with the story of a crab  he said she said type story  The Greedy Crow Has another moral Follows greed the same as most stories  be happy for what you have  The Humming-bird and the Carabao Humming-bird played a trick on the carabo to drink the most water  had knowledge of the tide  mostly narration  The Ant Started to seem like Mary and Joseph with the snake and god God almost gave the same poison to ants as snakes then realized how much of a force ants are  Why the Sun Shines m...