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Supernatural Folklore Quiz 2 Flashcards

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What is a monster?

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

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Ancient Monsters: Griffins

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-Offspring of lion and eagle
-Greedy

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Ancient Monster: Cyclops

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

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Medieval Monsters: Behemoth

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

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Medieval Monsters: Leviathan

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  • Sea monster rises from the deaths of the sea to cause problems
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Scientific Monsters: Hydra

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-Stuff and killed
-Multiheaded

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Scientific Monsters: Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy

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-Russian boy
-Displayed to the public

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Psychological & Future Monsters: Pyschopaths

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  • Certain kinds of people, serial killers
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Psychological & Future Monsters: Cyborgs

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-Reflect fear of things around us

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Vampires(definition)

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Living creatures who send out their souls to wonder

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Vampires( belief and legends)

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

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Chupacabra

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  • 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

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

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Werewolves

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

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Shapeshifter

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Being that can transform into another form

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Therianthropy

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Transformation of a human being into an animal

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Lycanthropy

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The ability to change to the shape of a wolf

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Werewolf Background

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-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

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-Hereditary
-Birth or improper nursing
-Witch craft

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Werewolves Beliefs: Voluntary

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  • Drinking water from a wolf’s footprint
    -Applying magical salve
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Werewolves Beliefs: Protection against them

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-Silver bullet
- Burning

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Werewolves & Masculinity

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

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Alien sightings in 1950 through folk tradition

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-Described as grays, little green men
-Non threating

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Aliens in 1950’s through pop culture

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-Appear sinister( taking over the human race)

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Aliens: Folk Tradtion

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-Gray
- Encounters are frighting & traumatic

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Aliens: Pop Culture

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

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Alien sightings

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

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Aliens: Crop Circles

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

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  • Memorates( first person and told as true)
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Who tells abduction narrative?

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Come from reliable narrators across a wide variety of context

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Narrative Structure: Capture

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Strange being seize and take the witness aboard the UFO

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Narrative Structure: Examination

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Beings subject the witness to a physical and mental examination

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Narrative Structure: Conference

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Conversation with the beings follows

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Narrative Structure: Tour

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The beings show their captive around the ship

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Narrative Structure: Otherworldly Journey

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The ship flies the witness to some strange and unearthly place

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Narrative Structure: Theophany

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An encounter with a divine being occurs

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Narrative Structure: Return

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

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Narrative Structure: Aftermath

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

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Motif

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

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Common Themes

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

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Famous Alien Narratives

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

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Conspiracy Theory

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

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Rumor

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Info that is spread without secure evidence

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Legend

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

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Similarities among rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories

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

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UFO

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Unidentified Flying Object

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Ufology

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Study of UFO sightings and related evidence

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Accounts of UFO’s

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-Dis shaped
-Bright light
-Crashes & debris

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Under the Sea Monsters

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

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Merfolk

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-Fair creatures
-Beautiful maidens
-Also monsters

51
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Qalupalik

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

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Yemaya

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

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Lara

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

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Pania of the Reef

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

55
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Merfolk Hoax

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

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What is ritual

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

57
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Guising

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

58
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Belsnickeling

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

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