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Hawaiian Lore
Folklore is a collection of stories passed down from generation to generation that include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales.
Legends are based on historical facts that have characters or events that have been embellished, they are told and retold, and they are told to sound possible. Myths are based on religion, supernatural beings or creators/gods or demigods, and explaining natural phenomena. Fairy Tales are fantastic elements, may have magic, conflict between good and evil, and imaginary creatures. Folklore in Hawaii in modern times is a mixture of various aspects of Hawaiian mythology and various urban legends that have been passed on regarding various places in the Hawaiian islands. Hawaiian folklore’s most
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Storytellers tended to have a special place in their societies, whether they were held in high regard or shunned for their lifestyle choice. Regardless, these people could inform the audience about cultural traditions, values, behaviors, etc such as the griots found in some Hawaiian cultures. They could also take advantage of the opportunity to attempt to persuade people to act a certain way or adopt a particular world view. Finally, quite often storytellers were looked upon to entertain at social gatherings to tell humorous stories, such as jesters.” ( http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-significance-storytelling-oral-tradition-396206 )
The Hawaiian oral tradition of folklore helped shape the culture by establishing the identity, the role that oral traditions like stories, comb our hair, and so forth, folklore also helps us to shape our identity.
The importance of the oral tradition in the growth of a community is the culture of native Hawaiians is manifested in many facts of a daily life. One of the most important for any culture is language. The Commission was very fortunate to have an expert on the Hawaiian language. Another discussion about the Hawaiian culture is the different context in historic
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A archetypal fits into folklore many different ways, it depends on what the folklore is talking about. But you can add an archetypal to folklore.
The strongest legend connection to the archetypal hero’s journey is Pele. Legend says if you do not respect her then your family will not be safe, but if you show your respects to her then she will keep everyone in your family safe. In hero’s journey there is a point in time where archetypal becomes the hero and Pele is the hero because if you show them both respect then they will become the people who protect.
The significance is that pele and archetypal both help people, and their purpose for helping people is to make sure nobody is struggling and nothing bad is happening to them. They are heroes because of what they do for people.
The journey helps the reader connect to the story by learning the good things to do for people and that it will make you a more rememorable person if you help people out and be there
Folklore in the movies usually focuses around a hero or heroine, that hero or heroine is in a situation that they have to overcome. The hero or heroine can come in many different forms; it could be a teenage boy a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, or an over the hill astronaught lost in space, or a little girl who falls down a hole. I am going to show how three movies contain folklore, Star Wars IV: A New Hope, Planet of the Apes one, and Alice in Wonderland.
Folklore is a group of stories that have been told from generation to generation, and include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales. Legends are a traditional story or a extremely famous person sometimes regarded as historical but unauthenticated. Myths are a traditional story, certainly one that involves the history of the people and describes a natural or social phenomenon. Fairy Tales are stories about magic and imaginary creatures and lands. Native American folklore is the beliefs of the Native American tribes in the past and still
Barrère, Dorothy B. The Kumuhonua Legends: A Study of Late 19th Century Hawaiian Stories of Creation and Origins, Pacific Anthropological Records number 3, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, 1969. Print
The Polynesian peoples have a lifestyle quite different than that of any other culture, as living on an island requires a level of flexible adaptability in order to cope with such a different, sometimes difficult environment. We see the way diverse cultures build their lives around their circumstances and how they respect them in their cultural myths and stories. The Polynesian legends emphasize the physical environment that they live in. They are quite different than any other region in the world, but the beauty and individuality of the Polynesian culture is prominent as seen in their mythology.
Folklore is a collection of stories passed down from generation to generation that includes Legends, Myths and Fairy tales. Legends are a semi-true story, which has been passed on from a person to another person that has an important meaning. Myths are a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon. A Fairytale is a children's story about magical which they have imaginary beings and lands. Hispanic Folklore is the traditional is mostly about beliefs, legends, customs and stories of the community of the hispanic culture. Hispanic or latino culture encompasses the traditions, language, religious beliefs and practices, legends, music and history.
Folklore is a collection of stories passed down from generation to generation that include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales. Legends have some historical facts but are mostly exaggerated. Myths has to do with religion, such as Gods, demi-gods, and supernatural creatures. Fairy Tales have fantastic elements and magic has good vs. evil.American folklore refers to the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people's found from America. American lore values such consist of freedom, equality democracy, independence, strength, family, and wealth. All of these values come together to create a strong nation.
Growing up in Hawaii, I’ve had many unique experiences that other teenagers in the U.S. have not. My family has been living in Hawaii for several generations and ever since I was born, my mom strongly encouraged me to know and learn more about my heritage. Since my mom is from Molokai, she has had many different Hawaiian experiences. Also since my grandmother lives there, I’ve spent just as much time on Molokai as I have on Maui. To me, the real Hawaiian experience is on an island such as Molokai because there is so much more that hasn’t been seen or discovered like there has been on Maui. I believe that the real Hawaiian experience isn’t in a place that is overpopulated and crowded with people, but in a place that actually resembles old Hawaii.
Myths have been on this world from the beginning of many civilizations to now. Myths have helped shape great civilizations, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and a lot more. However, the real question is whether all of these stories are relevant to our society today. It is true that myths, folktales, and legends were being passed down from generation to generation. Nowadays, not many people tell these kinds of stories anymore because the stories are slowly “dying” out. Some of these example of famous stories are “Yeh-shen” from China, “Black Ships” and“Apple of Discord” from Greece, and “The Prince and the Pauper” from England.
Folklore is the study of culture, customs and beliefs based on the tradition of a society. In Victorian England an interest in folklore emerged with the official creation of The Folk-Lore Society, which published a journal and held meetings and lectures regularly. Although Thomas Hardy included folklore in his writing, there is no evidence of his affiliation with this society.
A fairy tale is a made-up story usually designed to mislead involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins), in which improbable events lead to a happy ending. This is the definition of a fairy tale in the dictionary and the way most of the people perceive fairy tales nowadays. We all heard, watched and read many of them in our childhood and are familiar with most of the existing plots (which keep repeating themselves even in contemporary literature and cinematography). With the appearance of the Disney Company in the early 20s, the new interpretation of fairy tales has spread around the world. Nowadays, they are thought to be more about princesses, dragons, magic, and happy-endings than about morals and underlying issues wrapped up in a magical story for children.
One day Mr. Boardman announced that we were going to be doing a research paper on fairy tales/fables/folktales. I wasn’t very interested but I figured it wasn’t too bad of a subject. Then he read the original story of “Sleeping Beauty”, and that’s when I got interested. It did in a way confuse me considering Disney took all of these stories that could tend to be morbid, and turned th...
Folklore is a collection of stories passed down from generation to generation that include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales. Legends are traditional stories that are passed on and have an important meaning Myths are stories that happened and involve supernatural beings that are still known for. Fairy Tales are make-believe/that don’t exist. German Folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries. Germans heavily concentrated folklore is Fairy Tales because, they lived in a oral area where they teached their kids to not go in the woods. The values that are reflected germans culture is about the Pre-christian pantheon.
Folklore is an official and unofficial part of cultures. As mentioned in Living Folklores, folklore is the “learned knowledge about the word, ourselves, our communities, our beliefs, our cultures, and about traditions that is expressed creatively through words, music, customs, actions, behavior and materials” (8). Folklore is both creative and expressive and communitive. What folklore is not is that is it old fashion, it is not formally learned and it is not only about the past. Knowing what folklore is now, I know have become aware of many folklore and groups both in traditionally and culturally that exists in my life. Allen Dundes defines a folk group as “any group of people whatsoever who share at least one common factor” the group Dundes said need to share one common folklore which makes them unique. As a Guinean, I consider myself to be part of many folk groups both esoteric and exoteric.
Myths are unique because they deal primarily with supernatural entities acting as the primary characters. Secondary characters are often humans. In a myth, time is not easy to measure. Often the story takes place outside of human chronology, although it may loosely entwine elements of history. The predominant intention of a myth is to provide an extraordinary explanation for unexplained naturally occurring events. People use myths to explain what they do not know. They also pass cultural values on through their morals. Myths tackle issues concerned with the human-supernatural (gods) relationship.
1. Myths are stories, the products of fertile imagination, sometimes simple, often containing profound truths. They are not meant to be taken too literally. Details may sometimes appear childish, but most myths express a culture's most serious beliefs about human beings, eternity, and God.