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The origin of death is a theme in the myths of many cultures. Death is a universal feature of human life, so stories about its origin appear to be universal in human cultures. [1] As such it is a type of origin myth, a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. No one type of these myths is universal, but ...
Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8. [36] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
One example is the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo. More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed, anesthetized, and waking up minus one kidney, which was surgically removed for transplantation (a story which folklorists refer to as "The Kidney Heist"). [53]
A 9th-century poem says that Donn's dying wish was that all his descendants would gather at Donn's house or Tech Duinn (modern Irish Teach Duinn) after death: "To me, to my house, you shall all come after your deaths". [1] The 10th-century tale Airne Fíngein ("Fíngen's Vigil") says that Tech Duinn is where the souls of the dead gather. [7]
The man goes to the forest the next day and finds a coiled serpent on a small hill, which the story says coiled around itself to rest. The man brings the serpent home and treats it as a son-in-law, marrying the animal to his daughter in a grand feast. The man's neighbours notice the folly of his deed, but he goes on with it at any rate.
The first story says the Huldufolk are some of the children of Adam and Eve. These children were not washed and therefore Eve avoided presenting them to God. In return, God said; "That which had to be hidden from Me, shall also be hidden from man," thus creating the "hidden people"/ Huldufolk/Elves, out of the children and their offspring.
Within academic circles, the term myth is often used specifically to refer to origin and cosmogonic myths. Folklorists, for example, reserve the term myth for stories that describe creation. Stories that do not primarily focus on origins are categorized as legend or folk tale, which are distinct from myths according to folklorists. [5]
The Story of the Lay of Diarmaid, No. 1; The Lay of Diarmaid, No. 2; The Lay of Yeearmaid. No. 3; The Lay of Diarmaid, No. 4; Fables; How the Fox Took a Turn Out of the Goat; How the Cock Took a Turn Out of the Fox; The Hen; The Keg of Butter; The Fox and the Little Bonnach; Caol Reidhinn. Why the Name was Given to it; Thomas of the Thumb. The ...