Caitlyn's Blog for Myth-Folklore Fall 2018

Extra Credit Reading: Crash Course Myth - Epics and Heroes (One of the versions of Gilgamesh from game series, Final Fantasy: Image by PlayStation Europe ) I was quite excited to see that Gilgamesh was talked about in this batch of videos, specifically in The Epic of Gilgamesh . I did not know much about the actual story of Gilgamesh before seeing this video, but I was excited to learn more about him because he is featured in one of my favorite video game series and is quite notorious in them. Enkidu is also involved in some of the iterations of Gilgamesh in the game series I mentioned, but my favorite version of him is one where he is just a little green chicken that helps Gilgamesh. It was also interesting to learn about Rama and the Ramayana, as I believe I was the least familiar with the information from that video. I have heard about the holy grail several times before, but not in the detail that was presented in the Galahad, Perceval, and the Holy Grail video. I did rec...

Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales , Part B by Joseph Jacobs (Goose: Image by Henry Hemming ) The first story in this section of the unit, King O'Toole and His Goose , was interesting. I enjoyed the story but found the way of speaking used to be somewhat difficult to understand. The context seemed to be enough to understand the meaning for the most part, however. I also found the story  The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire to be interesting because of how it was broken up into sections. I enjoyed The Tale of Ivan the most. Ivan ended up being paid with advice for the job he was doing instead of getting money. I liked how the advice he received ended up paying off greatly and Ivan was also able to help people because of it. Overall the ending was very positive and I felt like the idea that money isn't everything and you can help yourself by helping others was being expressed.

Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales , Part A by Joseph Jacobs (Raspberries: Image from Pexels ) These stories were interesting to me. I did have to look up some of the terms used since I was not familiar with everything that was being talked about in these stories. I liked the story The Sheppard of Myddvai , mainly for the maiden character. She was interesting and I liked how the story ended because of her. I also liked The Sprightly Tailor . It was funny to see the tailor not care at all about the apparition that bugged him the entire time. I then thought something bad would happen to the tailor when the apparition started to chase him, but luckily nothing did. Munachar and Manachar was another story I found to be interesting. I thought Munachar would be stuck in a infinite loop of speaking to animals and things to get what he needed to hang Manachar. Just when it seemed like that had really dragged on for too long, Munachar finally was able to get all the things he needed onl...