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Many legends, origin myths and folk tales are pourquoi stories. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A more pejorative term for these stories is a just-so story , coined by English writer Rudyard Kipling in 1902. Examples
Another etiological tale, from a Slavic source, is The Seven Stars: a princess is kidnapped by a dragon, so the high chamberlain seeks a "Dragon-mother" and her sons, who each possess extraordinary abilities, to rescue her. At the end of the tale, the rescuers and the chamberlain enter a dispute on who should have the princess, but the "Dragon ...
A founding myth or etiological myth (Greek aition) explains either: the origins of a ritual or the founding of a city; the ethnogenesis of a group presented as a genealogy [9] with a founding father, and thus the origin of a nation (natio 'birth') the spiritual origins of a belief, philosophy, discipline, or idea – presented as a narrative
The tale is also said to be known in Germany, Finland and among the "Cheremis" (Mari people). [28] Similarly, according to Russian folklorist Lev Barag , despite Stith Thompson's opinion that the tale type existed in Lithuania, it was also reported among East Slavs (in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), in Poland, Bulgaria, and in Latvia and Estonia.
An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like. For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios , are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo, in the shape of a dolphin ( delphis ), propelled Cretans over the ...
In a tale collected in 1966, in Los Angeles, with the title El pájaro que habla, three kings take shelter during a storm in the house where three princesses live. The princesses see the kings and profess their wishes: the first will sew clothes for the king that can fit in a nutshell; the second a cape that can fit in a pine nut; and the third ...
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
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