myth identification - Folkloric Origins of the Ghost Rider - Mythology . . . The second part of Ghost Rider's mythological roots is simply that of a cursed soul or literally a ghost that rides, like Herne the Hunter, who also rattled with chains The idea that members of the Wild Hunt might be cursed is obviously a product of Christianization They were often hunting on a Christian holiday like Good Friday That was enough to damn their souls for eternity Tales from
What is the moral of the myth of Icarus? - Mythology Folklore Stack . . . I want to give a context interpretation of the myth That youth will fly high ignoring advice and takes risks, as the other answer says, is the first level, "listen to your elders" The long term result, (moral for the present day?) is that this youth is remembered over millennia and his name was given to a sea, so there was some recompense to the bad outcome of the risk My main observation
Where do Bigfoots live? - Mythology Folklore Stack Exchange The being has different names but seems to be worldwide In the Himalayas it is called Yeti, sometimes it is the abominable snowman but because so far the being has been able to elude capture so sometimes the very existence of this being is questioned However there is so much of earth that is formidable and unexplored there probably are many life forms we have yet to be able to examine and
origins - Are there any hunter gatherer gods? - Mythology Folklore . . . The authors in their article are mentioning that there is least possibility that the early hunter-gatherers is having adopted or accepted any concept of high god or supporting gods as stated below Belief in high gods appears to be a rather “stand-alone” phenomenon in the evolution of hunter-gatherer religion Prior studies have shown that among the four modes of subsistence (hunter
Newest origins Questions - Mythology Folklore Stack Exchange What are the origins of the snowman? In many countries where snow falls there is a folk tradition of building snowmen Almost always male, these temporary statues are usually human in scale, standing 0 5 to 2 metres tall, and made from a user1618 asked Dec 24, 2017 at 11:10 1 2 Next
folklore - What were the origins of the Santa Lucia processions in . . . The tradition of Lucia processions as known today was started in 1928 There were some precedents, but nothing matching exactly Some background: the oldest part of folklore that is relevant to the Lucia tradition is the link to the winter solstice (using the Julian calendar) in the fourteenth century, they coincided, and it appears this connection lived on even when the Julian calender got