legends that tell how something in nature came to be
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Native American Mythology & Legends There are also tales in which supernatural beings appear in the form of well-known animals and assist or grant favors to humans. In the mythology of the Plains tribes, the buffalo is a favorite character and is seldom encountered in the mythology from other areas. The bear, beaver, elk, eagle, owl, and snake are also frequently referred to, but also occur in the myths of Woodland and other tribes.
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Urban Legends Urban legends often carry a warning or have some significance that motivates the community in preserving and propagating it. For example, the Hook Man story (see below) is often used to warn teenagers against parking in the local Lover’s Lane.
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- Myths and Legends of the World. Creation Stories. People have long wondered how the world came into being. They have answered the question with stories that describe the origin of the universe or the world and usually of human life as well. Creation myths, known as cosmogonies, express people's understanding of the world and their place in it.
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Teachers' Resources Storytellers have catered for the need for a 'good story' since the beginning of civilization. Most people have their own favourite story from childhood and, often, these tales are both fascinating and frightening.sually the author is unknown and there are often many versions of the tale. Folktales comprise fables, fairy tales, old legends and even 'urban legends'. Again, some tales may have been based on a partial truth that has been lost or hidden over time.
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Oban's Myths & Legends A fable is another type of story, also passed down from generation to generation and told to teach a lesson about something. Fables are about animals that can talk and act like people, or plants or forces of nature like thunder or wind. The plants may be able to move and also talk and the natural forces cause things to happen in the story because of their strength. The most famous fables were written by a man called Aesop. We know them as Aesop’s Fables, and he wrote more than 600 of them. I’ve retold some of my favourite Aesop’s Fables for you. You can read about the Fox who thought he was cleverer than the Cat, or how the Tortoise won a race against the Hare.
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- Since myths are imaginary stories, they have imaginary characters in them like dragons, monsters, fairies, giants, and gods. All these characters had magical powers and were much more powerful than human beings. Different types of myths were woven about the same thing in different parts of the world. These very myths gave rise to different religions in various parts of the world. SAGA - The word saga was originally used for any story of heroic deeds of a medieval Norwegian hero.
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Are my old pokemon cards worth anything? I hontestly don't believe pokemon cards are going to be worth anything unless you've got like the very very first edition. Everyone in the universe has pokemon cards, or atleast had them at one time. so unless you intend to wait another 30 years to sell them, don't worry about it. midnightstargazer491 · 8 years ago.
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- Greek myth includes many monstrous beings: 1  Arachne, a half-spider half-female, she is the mother of all spiders. 2  She was made into that by Athena, after losing to a weaving contest after she boastfully said she was the best. She was made into that by Athena, after losing to a weaving contest after she boastfully said she was the best. 2  Caucasian Eagle, a giant eagle set by Zeus to feed on the ever-regenerating liver of Prometheus; it was a son of Echidna. 3  Centaur or Centauride, a head and torso of a human with the legs and behind of a horse.
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- Narrative types. Native American myths include all the types found worldwide, such as stories of creation, and of heroic journeys. However, they are particularly rich in ‘trickster’ myths. Notable examples are Coyote and Iktome.hereas Greek myths were shaped and ordered by classical authors, few Native American myths were written down before the late 19th century. Thus the apparent inconsistencies of the right-brain oral tradition are still very much present.
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- Students will prepare a poster to compare one American fairy tale or heroic story with that of another culture such as Paul Bunyan, George Washington and the cherry tree, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mother Goose, Aesops Fables, Alexander the great, Mogli in the Jungle Book, King Arthur, etc.
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Water mythology These were water spirits in Slavic mythology that supposedly lived in underwater palaces made from sunken ships. They were depicted old men with long green beards, covered in hairs, scales and slime. It was said the Vodianoi were offended by the boldness of humans, and would therefore cause swimmers to drown.
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Mermaid Mythology The earliest known mermaid legends come from Syria around 1000 B.C. where the Syrian goddess Atargatis dove into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the powers there would not allow her give up her great beauty, so only her bottom half became a fish and she kept her top half in human form.ater tales in the mythology of mermaids stem from Homer's epic The Odyssey, where some mythologists believe the Sirens to have been in mermaid form. This was an extremely popular version of the mermaid throughout history.
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Legend Legend may be transmitted orally, passed on person-to-person, or, in the original sense, through written text. Jacob de Voragine's Legenda Aurea or The Golden Legend comprises a series of vitae or instructive biographical narratives, tied to the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Difference Between Myth and Legend 1.A myth is a cultural story told about the gods that may be religious in nature, but also instructs about the origins and norms a particular culture; legend also aspires to instruct, but by using real people, not gods. 2.Myths happen in faraway places a long time ago, while legends happen in the definable past.
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- The folktale is a story, passed down verbally from generation to generation. Each storyteller told the stories a little differently, making them more interesting and fascinating as the ages passed. Different folktales bear the characteristics of the culture, folklore and customs of the people from which they originated.he word fable comes from the Latin fabula (little story). Typically, a fable consists of a narrative and a short moral conclusion at the end. The main characters in most fables are animals. The purpose of these stories is to ridicule negative human qualities.
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- View in context. There is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. View in context. I have heard of this picture; but the subject represented is taken from a legend, and you know what to think of legends in the matter of natural history. View in context. The birds go soaring past, The beasts avoid it; for the legend runs -- Told by the crook'd custodian of the place -- Of some old battle-field.
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Native American Legends Native American Legends The Woman and her Bear An Eskimo Legend. Long ago in the far north, there lived a village of people known as the Inuit. They lived on the shores of the icy Arctic, and they depended upon the bounty of the salmon and seal and the creatures of the snow to feed themselves. All the young men of the village were hunters and fishermen.
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The Legend by Kathleen Givens Two warriors. And the Highland prophecy that bound them both to battle, glory, and the two fiery women they dared to love. Now the adventure begins in Kathleen Givens's sensual, pulse-quickening tale of seventeenth-century Scotland.It's a time of portents, when a tree split by the fiery crack of lightning foretells the history of a land. And two lovers have...
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Legend A depiction of the legendary Ruetlischwur. Rütlischwur a (Legend, latin, legenda things to be) read is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale. verisimilitudeegend, for its active and passive participants includes no happenings that are outside the realm of possibility but which may include miracles. Legends may be transformed over time, in order to keep it fresh and vital, and realistic.
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Legends Are Made Legends Are Made. One summer day in 1945 Gene set out to join his friends at a baseball game at Wrigley Field. Little did he know that was the day of creation. While at the game, the group ordered some hot dogs and drinks. Looking down at the food in his hands, he felt something was missing.
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Urban legend Many urban legends are framed as complete stories with plot and characters. The compelling appeal of a typical urban legend is its elements of mystery, horror, fear or humor.Often they serve as cautionary tales.ecause people frequently allege that such tales happened to a  friend of a friend  (FOAF), the phrase has become a commonly used term when recounting this type of story. Sometimes urban legends are repeated in news stories, or distributed by e-mail or social media.
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The Norse Legend of the World Tree - Yggdrasil Subsequently, in the Norse creation myth, man and woman originated from trees. We are all the sons and daughters of the Ash and Elm tree: the first man was called Ask, born from the Ash, and the first woman Embla, born from the Elm. Their oxygen offers us the primordial conditions for life.
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THE EMPEROR AND THE NIGHTINGALE | Fabulous Folk Tales | Animation | Preschool | Kids | Kindergarten The folktale is a story, passed down verbally from generation to generation. Each storyteller told the stories a little differently, making them more interesting and fascinating as the ages passed.Different folktales bear the characteristics of the culture, folklore and customs of the people from which they originated.veryone admired his palace and gardens but when they heard the nightingale sing, they declared that it was the best of all. When the emperor heard about the nightingale, he sent his men to bring it for him. When he heard it sing, tears came to his eyes. He kept the bird in his palace in a cage.
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Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale a forest of thorns sprung up around the castle to keep her safe after 100 years had passed a handsome prince came upon the castle and was enchanted by the beauty of the sleeping princess he fell to his knees and kissed her she woke up and the people of the kingdom were able to resume their livesin modern versions of sleeping beauty the story generally ends at this point and everyone lives happily ever after the original fairy tale had a darker undertone however the prince and princess were wed and she gave birth to two children forest of thorns sprung up around the castle to keep her safe after 100 years had passed a handsome prince came upon the castle and was enchanted by the beauty of the sleeping princess he fell to his knees and kissed her she woke up and the people of the kingdom were able to resume their lives
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Native American Imagery It is stories like these that bring strength and character to the Seneca culture. The Seneca tradition of storytelling and oratory performance makes the use of vivid imagery an essential tool in the spiritual connection that the audience feels through the retelling.This spiritual connection gives the myths a deeper meaning, further than the obvious.eneca refer to “Etinoah, Mother Earth, as a being who is nurturing, inspiring of beauty and the wellhead of human prosperity and happiness” (Bahr 587). Seneca believe humans are part of nature, as can be seen in the fall of the young woman to earth and her apparent oneness with nature.