MLLL-3043 Myth and Folklore Blog

The rabbit used to boast about things that he could do. One day he lied about being a carnivore to an otter. He got trapped in a hole because he messed up during his attempt to trap an animal. He was starving for a couple days, until a family heard him. He called over to them to observe and admire him. They made the whole bigger and he jumped away.  (A Rabbit by  Pixabay ) Bibliography: "The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting"  Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney (1900).

This story had a scholar who didn't like to live with anyone. He witnessed a tiny little kingdom which in my head represented buggs because they were only a couple of inches if that tall. When they all disappeared, they left a little hunting dog. I think the scholar had become fond of the dog, but the dog died. I was so sad when the dog died. I love dogs. However, the dog died protecting the scholar while he slept which makes me even sadder.  ( Rover ) Bibliography: The Chinese Fairy Book , ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Unlike many stories in this class, this story started with the death of the mom and brother. The two sisters had to fend off against their family's murderer, the panther. When they let the panther come in, they knew it wasn't their mother. They played along with it though so they could trick him. After they hoaxed him to leave, they cried on their porch until venders started hempling them.  "In the evening the panther came home. He sat down in the armchair in the room. Then the needles in the cushion stuck into him. So he ran into the kitchen to light the fire and see what had jabbed him so, and then it was that the scorpion hooked his sting into his hand. And when at last the fire was burning, the egg burst and spurted into one of his eyes, which was blinded. So he ran out into the yard and dipped his hand into the water-barrel, in order to cool it, and then the turtle bit it off. And when in his pain he ran out through the door into the street, the wooden clubs fell on h...

I don't really have a weekly routine right now for this class. I did have one and then my other classes started to pick up so now that's basically disintegrated. I really like my project and the stories that I make for the class. I am using the extra credit options just to stay on track for my progress just in case I miss a reading or writing a story. I am gonna try to get ahead again in this class once I can breathe so who knows when that's gonna be, but fingers crossed.  ( pixabay )

The type of feedback I'm getting for the class is helpful. Some of the feedback I am getting for my project are actually ideas I already had for the stories and segmenants later on. I hope I am giving good feedback. I am just trying to be honest in my comments. I am pretty happy with my introduction post. I feel like it's very representative of me. I like seeing how people relate to me as well in some of those comments. I chose the picture below because I know that no one is meaning anything maliciously when they are giving me criticism. They just want me to imporce and they want to be entertained by my writing.  ( cheezburger )

I am really happy with the look of my blog. I wish I could find pictures that fit my aesthetic a little better for my blog, but with such a diverse set of topics I worked with what I got. I actually really like how my project is forming. I'm excited to write my first installment of the story. I think I like my story posts just a tad better. My favorite one was the one I did last week with "The Fox and his Wife". I wrote that story so fast because I had a clear direction I wanted to go with it because I was inspired by the original. ( Flower and a book )

 I do a thing called time blocking. I usually write a list of things I need to get done in a studying session in the order I am gonna do it. I usually try to mix up the subjects just so I don't burn myself out on one subject. Then I estimate about how long it will take me to do each one. As I go down my list I usually et an alarm and will have it go off to that allotted time. If i don't finish that assignment or check item I come back to it at the end when I have free time to finish it. 

Jane and her husband, Steven, had decided to go take their children to the park after work one day. They had two little kids in which they adored. Steven and Jane usually waited on a park bench near by while the kids played on the playground and swings.  A big man with dark clothing approached them. The man asked "Hi friends! I haven't seen you in awhile. Where are your children?" Jane and Steven had never seen this man in their life before. They looked at each other and Jane knew she had to make quick action as her children may have been in danger. Jane looked up and hugged the man. She replied back, "Oh my! It's been a long time since we've seen each other. The last time I think you saw us I think it was at the grocery store."  The man almost looked surprised when she replied in this fashion. He asked again "Yeah it's been so long. We do have to catch up, but I have been dying to see your children! The last time I saw them they were only a cou...

 This was an interesting story. Throughout the entire reading, there was a lot of adjectives and a lot of imagery to depict the mood and feelings around the characters. For instance: "Sudden from out of the void, by the wrath of the hurricane driven,Into the Hall of the Gods, with the crash of a thunderbolt dire, Down from the summit of Heaven, through a rent in the firmament riven, Hurtled the Dragon of Hell, Susa-no-wo, demon of Fire!"  This is a prime example of word choice in this particular section of the class. Words like Wrath and dire convey emotions around them.  Bibliography:  E. W. Champney and F. Champney, "The Miraculous Mirror", Link

I have not read or written microfictions before. I think it's interesting because sometimes I lose interest in the things I read. The length is so short that it's hard to not pay attention unless I am just really out of it. K particularly liked the two sentence horrors. I love horror stories and thriller movies. The amount of queasiness I felt reading some of these was fun.  ( Monster House )

This story should be really be named "The Fox and Her Husband". The wife did all the heavy lifting in getting away from the tiger. She knew she had to be respectful to con the tiger. I mean they even got an escort to their house because the tiger thought he had tricked them, but no one can trick a fox. The tiger got so mad that "Then he saw how he had been fooled and flew into a terrible rage and tried to squeeze his way into the hole, but it was much too small and at last he had to go away baffled, and so the foxes were saved by Mrs. Fox’s wit.". That was all due to Mrs. Fox and the husband did nothing.  ( Red Fox ) Bibliography: A Fox and His Wife, by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909), link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11938/11938-h/11938-h.htm#t116

Particularly this part of the story shocked me,  "At this, everyone looked up at the sky; then she took some sand which she had in the fold of her cloth and threw it into the air, and it fell into their eyes and blinded them. While they were rubbing the sand out of their eyes, the girl leapt on to the pyre and was burned along with the monkey and died a sati. Her father and brothers were very angry at this and said that the girl must have had a monkey’s soul, and so she was fascinated by him — and so saying, they bathed and went home." This story was anything but dull. To be honest I don't know the point of this story because what was the point of the girl killing herself. It kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet though. There aree two star-crossed lovers that can't be together because they are from different worlds.  ( Hanuman Langur Monkey ) Bibliography: The Monkey and the Girl by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909), link:http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folkl...