- A blood thirsty cyrtid that is said to feed on the blood of livestock, including goats - Heavy creature -Reptile like -Alien like -Size of a bear -Dog like -Tail

Supernatural Folklore Quiz 2 Flashcards by Blakyn James

What is a monster?

-Monster most generally are the inhuman
-A A term that is used both literally and metaphorically

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Ancient Monsters: Griffins

-Offspring of lion and eagle
-Greedy

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Ancient Monster: Cyclops

-One huge eye in the middle of their head
-Huge

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Medieval Monsters: Behemoth

-Brass bones & huge jaws
-Shape of elephant and tempts humans

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Medieval Monsters: Leviathan

Sea monster rises from the deaths of the sea to cause problems

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Scientific Monsters: Hydra

-Stuff and killed
-Multiheaded

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Scientific Monsters: Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy

-Russian boy
-Displayed to the public

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Psychological & Future Monsters: Pyschopaths

Certain kinds of people, serial killers

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Psychological & Future Monsters: Cyborgs

-Reflect fear of things around us

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Vampires(definition)

Living creatures who send out their souls to wonder

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Vampires( belief and legends)

Overlap with other shapeshifters and cryptozoology monsters who feed on the living

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Chupacabra

A blood thirsty cyrtid that is said to feed on the blood of livestock, including goats
Heavy creature
-Reptile like
-Alien like
-Size of a bear
-Dog like
-Tail

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Vampire & Science

-Overlap: both use the same evidence to support certain conclusions

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Werewolves

A human being who turns into a wolf and later returns human
“Were”- man
Both tradtional and pop culture

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Shapeshifter

Being that can transform into another form

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Therianthropy

Transformation of a human being into an animal

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Lycanthropy

The ability to change to the shape of a wolf

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Werewolf Background

-Existed since ancient times
-Northern Europe and Scandinavia
-Admired for hunting ability but became feared as time moved towards farming

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Werewolves Beliefs: Involuntary

-Hereditary
-Birth or improper nursing
-Witch craft

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Werewolves Beliefs: Voluntary

Drinking water from a wolf’s footprint
-Applying magical salve

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Werewolves Beliefs: Protection against them

-Silver bullet
- Burning

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Werewolves & Masculinity

-Seen as hypermasculine, hair, strength, appetite and exaggerated sexual organ

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Alien sightings in 1950 through folk tradition

-Described as grays, little green men
-Non threating

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Aliens in 1950’s through pop culture

-Appear sinister( taking over the human race)

Aliens: Folk Tradtion

-Gray - Encounters are frighting & traumatic

Aliens: Pop Culture

-Seen as sinister plans for earth -Vary in looks but still gray/green

Alien sightings

1st: UFO Sighting 2nd: Physical Ev. 3rd: Contact is made 4th: Abduction

Aliens: Crop Circles

- Believed to be saucer nests, communication from aliens -Became famous through notable hoaxes in England

Alien Abduction Narratives

- Memorates( first person and told as true)

Who tells abduction narrative?

Come from reliable narrators across a wide variety of context

Narrative Structure: Capture

Strange being seize and take the witness aboard the UFO

Narrative Structure: Examination

Beings subject the witness to a physical and mental examination

Narrative Structure: Conference

Conversation with the beings follows

Narrative Structure: Tour

The beings show their captive around the ship

Narrative Structure: Otherworldly Journey

The ship flies the witness to some strange and unearthly place

Narrative Structure: Theophany

An encounter with a divine being occurs

Narrative Structure: Return

At last the witness comes back to earth leave the ship returns to normal life

Narrative Structure: Aftermath

Physical, mental and paranormal aftereffects continue in the wake of the abduction

Motif

The smallest element in a tale having a power to persist in tradition: small repeating details in folk narratives

Common Themes

-Focused on reproduction - Come from a dying home planet -Offer prophecies and warning to human -Deceitful and indifferent towards humans

Famous Alien Narratives

-1947 Roswell UFO incident -Betty and Barney Hill, 1961

Conspiracy Theory

The conviction that a secret, omnipotent individual or group covertly controls the political and social order

Rumor

Info that is spread without secure evidence

Legend

3rd person narrative about a single episode the truth of which is debated in the telling, solidified rumors

Similarities among rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories

-All deal with questions -All 3 genres -All 3 express shared fears and distrust

UFO

Unidentified Flying Object

Ufology

Study of UFO sightings and related evidence

Accounts of UFO's

-Dis shaped -Bright light -Crashes & debris

Under the Sea Monsters

-Kraken( Scandinavia) -Each Uisge ( Scotland) -Ningyo (Japan) -Selkies -Sirens -Merfolk

Merfolk

-Fair creatures -Beautiful maidens -Also monsters

Qalupalik

-Stories in Alaska, Western Canada, Artic -Human like -Green skin -Long hair -Long fingernails -Lives in the sea -Hums to children

Yemaya

-Stories from Brazil & Cuba - Queenly Mermaid -Ocean mother goddess

Lara

-Stories found in Brazil, sometimes Cuba -Mermaid like -Mother of the Waters -Love & Beauty -Grief & Misfortune

Pania of the Reef

-Storied found in New Zealand -Protector of the Reef -Beautiful maiden -Lingers in the waves -Broken heart

Merfolk Hoax

1822, turned out it was nothing but a dried stuffed skin of a monkey attached to a salmon that was cut in half

What is ritual

-Sub genre of customary folklore -Wide range of repeated habitual actions and behaviors, small or large, serious or playful

Guising

Halloween tradition where people dress up and visit homes for candy/treat

Belsnickeling

visit homes prior to Christmas to check up on the behavior of children