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While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. Whatever their uses, the ghost story is in some format present in all cultures around the world, and may be passed down ...
Traditional Native stories have been handed down within a tribe for centuries and often have extremely ancient origins. These stories may reflect social and physical environments that existed in preservation eras and long before, thus giving present-day listeners insight into past realities." [3]
The Akan proverbs translated as "Ancient things in the ear" and "Ancient things are today" refer to present-day delivery and the past content, and as such oral traditions are both simultaneously expressions of the past and the present. Vansina says that to ignore the duality either way would be reductionistic. [124] Vansina states:
Ultimately, I hope to inspire a broader appreciation for history, shed light on some of the world’s hidden stories, and encourage critical thinking about the past and its impact on the present.”
The aesthetic of vintage photographs is undeniably charming. Certain imperfections and the warm, grainy, soft look evoke nostalgia and take us back in time when moments were captured on film. They ...
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week. → 2,400-year-old underground discovery stumped experts for decades — until now → 800-year-old toy unearthed ...
a "narrative in the present" (paccupannavatthu), with the Buddha and other figures, a "narrative in the past" (atītavatthu), a story from a past life of the Buddha; a "link" (samodhāna) in which there is an "identification of the past protagonists with the present ones." [2]
Learning is most effective when it takes place in social environments that provide authentic social cues about how knowledge is to be applied. [22] Stories function as a tool to pass on knowledge in a social context. So, every story has 3 parts. First, The setup (The Hero's world before the adventure starts).