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Last lecture Todays lecture
  • American legends
  • As folk narrative that uses archetypical imagery
  • As narrative that reflects social issues
  • Legends and other genres
  • Historical legends/ urban legends
  • Russian legends of both types

2
Tale Myth
  • Fiction
  • Timeless, placeless
  • Actors are human or non-human
  • Secular
  • No restrictions on audience
  • Individual
  • Fact
  • Cosmogonic, beginning of time
  • Actors are non-human
  • Sacred, ritualistic
  • Special audience (initiation?)
  • Social

3
Legend between tale and myth
  • Fact, not fiction
  • Located in a time and place, but one more recent
  • Secular, but social concerns, norms upheld
  • Actors human or non-human
  • Told any time and place (not ritual context)
  • Audience restricted not for kids

4
Historical legend Urban legend
  • Further back in time
  • Actors can be saints, or prominent historical
    figures
  • Can be cosmogonic
  • Can be used to instruct children
  • Here and now
  • Actors human, though removed (FOF)
  • No norms created rather norms upheld
  • Too scary for the young, though they tell each
    other

5
Legends their structure
  • Purported to be true FOF
  • Validation (as opposed to 3X9 kingdoms)
  • Implied interdiction
  • Interdiction violated
  • Consequences of violation, rather than
    resolution, though resolution in that social
    norms are upheld
  • Repeat validation visual evidence

6
American historical legends
  • George Washington and the cherry tree, silver
    dollar
  • Custers last stand
  • Mutilation
  • Old woman
  • Parallels in myth archetypical sources?
  • Parallels in other traditions
  • Robin Hood
  • Koroglu (Turkish)
  • Old woman time
  • Russian story
  • Other Russian stories of hubris skull, coffin

7
Other ancient legend topics
  • Mutilation of the body, creation from body and
    strange birth
  • Mythic Greek
  • Devil baby
  • Jersey Pine Barrens devil
  • Strange births used in movies, TV
  • Big foot beliefs
  • Other place beliefs
  • 29 North accident zone
  • Candyman historical elements
  • Other, more local legends illicit sex

8
More Russian historical legends
  • Famous brigands Robin Hood type
  • Stenka Razin
  • His death
  • His treasure
  • Pugachev can unmask evildoers
  • Place legends
  • Icon
  • Old Believers
  • Famous rulers
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • And witches
  • And the Volga River

9
Modern legends, modern issues
  • Child abuse concerns and pet stories told last
    time
  • Dealing with old people
  • Runaway Grandma
  • Old pet stories
  • Dead pets and greed
  • Greed and revenge
  • Lots of sex
  • Strange sex punished
  • Female vanity also punished
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