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ALL RSSS 315 Questions & Detailed Answers
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ALL RSSS 315 Questions & Detailed AnswersKononeko on folklore - ANS Folklore is alive and ever changing. Stressed theme
and variation because they us tell things about a people, like what matters to
them, what makes them different, and what they think being human means. It
defines against other groups of people.
Alexi Tolstoy - ANS Family of the Vurdoulak
Folklore - ANS - Traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances or art forms preserved
among a people (examples?)
- A branch of knowledge that deals with folklore
- An often unsupported notion, story, or saying that is widely circulated
Folklore and the Slavs? - ANS Folklore in Slavic culture is sacred. It primarily deals
with basic human issues, such as family, conflict, fears, and battles. The idea of
fate is still very powerful in Russia. Dualism is common.
Kumel - ANS Daughters of Darkness
Fairy tale - ANS - A story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as
fairies, wizards, and goblins)—called also fairy story
- A story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending
,Themes - ANS -We often monster-ize those who have unusual physical
characteristics.
-Bad man in life= dark creatures in afterlife
-He who dies first is blamed for subsequent illness, death.
-The role of mass hysteria in vampire epidemics
-Horror of the monster with eyes open. This unnerves us because the eyes are the
windows to the soul, and these beings are cold and soulless.
-Aristocrat versus peasant
-Hungarian versus Slovak
-Violence of the times
-Clash between religion
-Aging, and how we fight it
-The beautiful female who brings danger or death.
-The weary male traveler who falls in love with the local child of nature, pure-
hearted woman
-Animals know what humans will not admit.
Le Fanu - ANS Carmilla
Legend - ANS - A story coming down from the past; especially: one popularly
regarded as historical though not verifiable
- A person or thing that inspires legends
,Variations - ANS -How dark creatures are killed
-How they are presented
-Who they target
-How they come about
Scott - ANS The Hunger
Myth - ANS - A usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves
to unfold part of the world view or explain a practice, belief, or natural
phenomenon
- A popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone,
especially: one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of
society
Example of how we monster-ize - ANS -Hypertrichosis victims seen as werewolves
and Porphyria victims seen as vampires.
-In general, ugly is seen as different, unusual, sometimes supernatural.
Bigelow - ANS Near Dark
Dvoeverie - ANS Simultaneous pagan and Christian beliefs
"Death/love" spectrum - ANS The dreaded vampire, once hunted and hated,
becomes desired lover
, Jordan - ANS Interview with the Vampire
Which early Slav officially adopts christianity? - ANS Vladimir of Kiev
Droevere is...? An example? - ANS Pagan and Christian convergence.
EX. Easter
John Landis - ANS An American Werewolf in London
Vampire - ANS - The reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the
grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep
- One who lives by preying on others
Rod - ANS God of kin and kinship. related to protection of the home, family, and
the goddess of fate, Rozhanitsy. Bloodless sacrifices of grain to Rod and
Rozhanitsy.
Bava - ANS Black Sabbath
Slavic vampire - ANS - Deceased people who, in their lifetime, had been sorcerers,
bad characters, or murderers, and whose bodies are now occupied by an unclean
spirit
- Do not decay in the grave, keep the color of life
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