Myth-Folklore 2020

  Starting Point: Yurei (Japanese Ghost) :     I chose this topic because I'm in a Halloween mood! I'm excited to watch scary movies and read some spooky tales. This week, I read a Japanese fairy tale about a man-eating goblin. I wanted to find out more about Japanese horror myths. I started with ghosts since I think they have significance in the Shinto religion.  Point #2: Onryo (Vengeful Japanese Ghost) :  I think it's cool that they have different classification for ghosts. Based on how the ghost died or why they return to haunt people, the ghost is different. Since I'm in a scary mood, I wanted to know more about ghosts that come back because something wrong happened to them (they have to get vengeance!).  This is a ghost that is capable of killing/ causing harm to living beings. They can even cause natural disasters.   Point #3: Yotsuya Kaidan (Famous ghost story of Oiwa and Tamiya):    This point I chose because of the pictur...

  This one was worked pretty well! I used zeoob  to create this FB post for Dracula. I wanted to find one of these generators to use in my future classroom. I thought it would be cool if kids could retell stories using various modern social posts. I have a lesson plan like this for Dracula , so I decided to try it out. It was pretty easy, but I want to find one that's even more extensive. I would like to create an entire fake FB profile for the Drac, so I'll keep digging!  

Markus had been wandering through the woods for hours now. It was getting darker, colder, and creepier as the sun started to set. He started to regret his decision to find the famous “goblin of the woods” that supposedly hunted in this forest. Every time someone vanished in the woods, the whole town blamed it on a horrifying, man-eating goblin.  Markus totally didn’t believe in it, not at all.  There are tons of totally normal, realistic reasons for people disappearing in the woods. Like, starvation or just plain ol’ getting lost. Hell, even getting attacked by a bear was more likely than a goblin!  There was no reason to believe that a cannibalistic goblin existed in these woods. Once Markus proved that the goblin didn’t exist, the rumors would be put to rest and his buddies would owe him 200 dollars. It was a win-win for him. It seemed to be around midnight when Markus found a little cabin in the middle of a clearing. Normally, he wouldn’t dare to go in, but it was co...

 These notes are based off The Physician's Revenge from Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang (1898). Since this story is a frame narrative, things have gotten a little bit confusing I understand what is happening, but I think it might be hard to retell in a cohesive way Right now, Scheherazade is telling a story about a genie and a fisherman The fisherman is now telling the story of the king and the physician, to the genie  Last time, the vizir told a story to the king-- from this story, the king began to distrust the physician (that saved his life), and now wants to execute him I think if I were to retell this story, I would have to only focus on the king v. physician part of the story. It would be hard to tell all the background info, but maybe I could add in a little bit of outside narrative at the beginning of the story.  The Greek king was fooled by the vizier's story. He now wants to execute the physician He brings the physician to him, and tells him that h...

 These notes are based off The Goblin of Adachigahara from Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki  I'm now in a halloween mood, so I'm loving these tales about goblins that eat people! In this one, a goblin has been eating travelers, but the priest has yet to run into him Of course, he's really in the goblin's house right now! He's in the house with an old woman in the middle of the woods (totally safe) The woman allows him in and feeds him She leaves to get firewood and tells him, "Don't look in the inner room" The man swears not to, but it's calling to him! He goes into the room, and it's filled with bones! "In once corner skull upon skull rose to the ceiling, in another was a heap of arm bones, in another a help of leg bones" This is a good description!  He figures out that the woman is the cannibal goblin (smart guy) He runs away, but she chases him With a knife! The man prays to the buddha and he is saved! The goblin disappea...

 These notes are over The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die from Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki.  This is the third part of the story A man didn't not want to die, so he traveled to an island where people never die (perpetual life) On this land, people actually want to die or get sick. They get tired of the long, exhausting thing that is life. lol At first, Sentaro is happy about the island. This is what he wanted! He will never die. Instead, he will live for 100s of years and enjoy his life Time moves quick for him, and he isn't has happy as he expected. things start to annoy him  He wants to go back to his old town, but if he does, he will grow old and die  If I were to write this, I would make a modern city that never ages Maybe this man does try to die--like the others I could change this into teens that are scared to become adults They want to be young forever But, they get tired of being 17 The crane comes back to get Sentaro The man regrets his choice as...