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Supernatural Folklore Flashcards

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What is Folklore?

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Beliefs or customs that are passed down through generation primarily through oral tradition

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What did early scholars view as folklore?

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Part of everyday life

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What are characteristics to help define folklore today?

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Stories that are learned through oral tradition or performance

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Who are the folk?

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-European peasants
-Uneducated people
-Native Americans

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What is the difference between pop and elite culture?

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Pop culture is everyday life lived through mass media
Elite culture is having more access

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3 Major Genres of folklore

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  1. Myth: considered true
    2.Legend: told are true or false, told about real people and place
    3.Folktale: passed down by oral tradition, includes fairies
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Features of haunted houses.
Example from folk, pop and elite.

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Old, abandoned, broken parts on house
Folk: walking house on chicken legs
Pop: Movies, Adams family

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What is liminality? Examples.

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Betwixt and between.
Ex. basement, attic, bathroom

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3 Major belief genres

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  1. Folk
  2. Pop Culture
  3. Elite Culture
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Characteristics of a legend

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-Told about real people and places
-Told as true or false

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Characteristics of a myth

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-Sacred narrative
-Told as true

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What is a memorate?

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Personal experience narrative about a supernatural encounter.

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What is ostension? Example

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People act out themes or events found in folklore
Ex. Devils Tramping Ground

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What is legend tripping? Example

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People travel to the place where a supernatural event was believed to take place
Ex. Rail Road Children

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What is a relational believer?

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Someone who believes something based on logic

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What is the relationship between tradition and belief?

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-Shared stories/events
-Can be invented but also die out

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Cultural Source Hypothesis

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People are influenced by their culturally informed beliefs

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Experimental Source Hypothesis

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The experience people describe should be taken at face value

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What is Worldview?

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The way we understand ourselves and our relationship to the world around us

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What is a moccasin telegraph? Example

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Network of native permutation supernatural communication
Ex. Through native Americans

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What is a fairy?

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-Fallen angels
-Wondering dead

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Where do you find fairies?

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Fairy rings, megalith and rath

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What do fairies do?

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Dance, play, sing, attend wedding and funerals, ride horses

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What is changeling? Examples

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Old fairy baby who takes place of a young human baby.
Ex. The Good People and Irish Fairies

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How has the views of witches/witchcraft changed over time?

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In modern time it seems to be mostly women who will just curse people instead of older times when witches used to help find stolen items and help heal the wounded

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3 Types of Appalachian Witchery
Examples

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  1. White Witchery
  2. Black Witchery
  3. Witch Doctoring
    Ex. Uses all natural things for healing
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What is commodification? Examples

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Belief given in exchange value for something that can be bought, traded or sold
Ex. Shirts or cups with the belief printed on it

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What is trivialization? Examples

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Belief traditions that are made to seem over the top
ex. Hollywood movies vs folklore

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What is a cryptid? Examples

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creature belonging to unconfirmed species

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What is cryptozoology? Examples

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The study of unconfirmed species

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What is a hybrid? Examples

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Product of cross breeding
Ex. Ligers and tigons

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What is a cyborg? Examples

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A hybrid that is part human part machine

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What is species problem?

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Failure of biologist arrangement of identification for half human half machines

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What is bigfoot?

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Large, hairy, heavy, tall, big foot creature

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Theories of bigfoot

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-Largely footed
-Becomes harmful if disturbed

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Evidence of big foot

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-Large lock of hair
-Unusual large footprints

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