Ethan aha Myth-Folklore

Russian Fairy Tales      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:       * Death kills a household in a village every night.       * Cossack discovers it's a witch dressed all in white and chops off her arm. The girl is caught the next morning and drowned. The Cossack is payed.       * Priest's son reads with his back to a dead Princess for three nights. Each night the Headless Princess rises from her coffin and conjures horrors to try and distract the boy.       * Three daughters-in-law are expected to watch their dead father-in-law on three separate nights. The first two are strangled by their undead father-in-law while the third outsmarts him and gains the rights to his wealth.       * A Fiddler sinks into Hell and sees a rich man getting beaten by fiends. 

Leshy      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:      * Husband tricks his bad wife into falling into a bottomless pit into Tartarus.      * Demons are tormented by the wife and one comes up to live in Russia.       * The demon tells the husband to let him possess different folk and the man will heal them and earn a lot of money.       * A hunter finds the leshy on a log in the woods and shoots it.       * The hunter follows the dying Leshy back to its shack.       * There, the Leshy is lying stone dead. He finds the priest's daughter, who's been missing for three years. The priest marries her to the hunter. 

Mediterranean Mythology      Bibliography:  Crash Course Mythology - YouTube      Notes:      * The Sumerians held nature to be more important than human concepts. As the gods and goddesses of the Earth, Sun, and Moon came before any rulers of abstract human emotions such as love or fear.       * Mythology reveals a culture's sense of themselves and nature.       * Sumerians had both a God and Goddess for most element whereas other cultures seem to exclusify each aspect of nature to either an individual god or goddess.       * Zeus reveals true form to Semele and burns her to a crisp.       * Heracles kills his music teacher.       * Given 10 Labors.      * 2 are not counted      * Heracles captures Cerberus for his 12th and final labor. 

*I tried downloading an image but my computer would not let me, even after deleting a bunch of stuff      Bibliography. More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Witch turns four children into white swan.       *King is possessed by a gluttonous demon.       *Man is tricked by a crane and left hanging over the Atlantic Ocean.       *Druidic wizard defeat a witch. 

Celtic Giant      Bibliography. Celtic Fairy Tales (1892) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895) by Joseph Jacobs.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Five-headed giant battles a superhuman in his land.       *Blue elves steal parents' children.      *Land of the Giant.      *Celtic Origin story with giants battling. 

Leprechaun - Wikipedia      Bibliography. Celtic Fairy Tales (1892) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895) by Joseph Jacobs.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Man gets taken away to an immortal realm.       *Leprechaun leads man to pot of gold in a field but tricks him.       *Witches enter a woman's home and she succumbs to sleep paralysis.       *A monster chases a man out of the church. 

Eskimo Shaman      Bibliography. Eskimo Folk-Tales  by Knud Rasmussen.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *A monster attacks a family standing on a frozen body of water.       *Two shamans with shape-shifting abilities fight.      *Two sisters are sent away from their brothers. One lives with a whale and the other an eagle.       *Shamans battle spirits. 

Eskimo Seal Hunting      Bibliography. Eskimo Folk-Tales  by Knud Rasmussen.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Men were immortal at the beginning of the world.       *The Earth was dark and water-lamps lit homes because fire was combustible in those days.       *Light and death came into the world at the same time with the moon and stars.       *A Giant Dog is used to go hunting      *Little boy watches spirits move in and out of the house each night. 

Sun Wu Kung in the Buddha's Hand       Bibliography. The Chinese Fairy Book , ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens.  Web Source      Notes:      *The Jade Emperor invites the Monkey King to Heaven and gives him a job.       *The monkey King's job is lowly and he leaves to go back to Earth.       *The Jade Emperor tries to capture him.       *The Monkey King defeats all heavenly forces.       *The monkey King is venerated as a Great Saint and is given is own palace in his heaven.       *The Monkey King becomes corrupted with power and unleashes a revolt against heaven to try and dethrone the Jade Emperor.       *The Buddha tames Sun Wu Kung with a wager. He cannot leave the Buddha's hand.       *Sun Wu Kung becomes a humble monk.  ...

The Monkey King Breaks Out of the Stone Egg      Bibliography. The Chinese Fairy Book , ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens.  Web Source      Notes:      *Sun Wu Kung leaps through waterfall and finds cave. Named King.      *Sun Wu Kung learns about Buddhas, blessed spirits, and gods at a banquet.       *Sun Wu Kung learns the secrets of immortality from a master in a cave.       *Sun Wu Kung defeats the Devil-King.       *Sun Wu Kung goes to the Dragon-King for weaponry and armor.       *Sun Wu Kung terrorizes the ten Princes of the Dead and erases his name and all the monkey's names from the Book of Life.       *The Jade Emperor hears the complaints involving Sun Wu Kung. 

The Green Man      Bibliography. Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian, and Jewish by J. E. Hanauer.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Solomon enslaves evil spirits.      *David receives forgiveness from Bathsheba's husband.       *The Green Man is the one who drank from the fountain of youth.       *Moses encounters the Green Man

Og the Mighty Pre-Flood Giant      Bibliography. Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian, and Jewish by J. E. Hanauer.  Web Source      Reading Notes:       *Noah's Flood: The giant Og attempts to convince Noah to bring him aboard the ark. Noah refuses.       *Og brings a mountain-sized Unicorn and attaches a rope to its horn and ties the rope on the back of the ark.       *The Flood waters only come up to Og's ankles.       *Og shrinks when he starves.       *Moses and the Israelites fight Og. Og almost drops a mountain on their camp.       *Og lays down and his body stretches from Banias to Lake Merom.       *Nimrod makes his subjects believe he is a god.      *Abraham questions Nimrod's power.       *Allah saves Abraham from ...

The Buddha and Mara's demons      Bibliography. The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      * The Buddha gains five of Rudraka's disciples.      * They leave him after he abandons the ascetic lifestyle.       * The Buddha has his last meal before attaining Buddhahood in a golden bowl.       * The Buddha defeats Mara and his army.       * The Earth bears witness to his generosity.       

Young Buddha Meditating Under a Tree      Bibliography. The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold.  Web Source      Reading Notes:      *Maya dreams of the white elephant and thousands of Gods rejoicing before her.       * King Suddhodana hears a great voice from the sky tell him that he will have a son who will seek supreme knowledge.       * Siddhartha is born in a beautiful garden.       * Siddhartha and his family are brought many gifts.       * The royal family has it so good, that Maya dies and Siddhartha is taken care of by her sister.       * The idols of the Hindu gods bow down before the boy Siddhartha.       * Siddhartha meditates under a tree for the first time. The shadows do not change.       * Siddhartha has the Four Sights and is troubled....

Andromeda and the Sea Monster      Bibliography. "Ovid's Metamorphoses" from Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Tony Kline  Web Source      Reading Notes:      * Narcissus falls in love with his reflection      * He gets turned into a flower      * Echo tries to seduce Narcissus      * Perseus saves Andromeda from the sea monster

The Flood      Reading Notes:       * Jupiter and Neptune flood the world      * Jupiter sees that Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha have survived and that they are innocent worshippers of the gods. Jupiter orders the seas to calm and the waters to recede.       * The human race is re-created.      * Jupiter falls in love with Io.      * Phaethon almost destroys the Earth with the fire of the Sun.

Jesus in the Temple      Bibliography. "Jesus and the Philosophers" from The Lost Books of the Bible edited by Rutherford  H. Platt, Jr.  Web Source      Notes:      * Jesus stays behind in the temple as Mary and Joseph leave after a feast.       * Jesus remains in the temple for three days discussing a plethora of topics such as astronomy, physics, metaphysics, nature, and the supernatural with the doctors, all learned men of Israel.       * Jesus reveals knowledge that was previously 'unknown to the mind of any creature.' 

Mary and Joseph's Flight into Egypt       Bibliography. "The Idol" from The Lost Books of the Bible  edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr.  Web Source      Notes:      * Mary and Joseph enter Egypt with the infant Jesus.       *Commotion breaks out in the city upon their entry.       * The Egyptian idols speak to the inhabitants about the cause of the commotion. The true God, who is of greater power than them, has entered the city.       *The idols topple under God's/Jesus' power.       *A possessed boy puts Jesus' clothes on over his head and is cured.       *Mary pities a wild woman possessed by the Devil, who is then cleansed of her torment. 

Susan and Orochi Heavenly Beings: Susanoo and Orochi E.W. Champney and F. Champney      Note idea: Divine Beings vs. Giant Monsters      In a lot of modern-day Japanese movies, giant monsters are featured in battles with other giant monsters. Like the many "Godzilla vs. (monster)" movies. Sometimes, it's even mankind taking on the task of extinguishing these kaiju . Like in the movie Pacific Rim (2014). However, I've never heard of a modern-day story about a battle between divine beings and giant monsters. Reading this story gave me that idea. Such stories like the battle between Susanoo and Orochi are featured all throughout ancient myths in practically all cultures. Some even served as a sort of origin story, such as the Titanomachy. Yet, these types of stories where the divine clash with earth-shattering monstrosities isn't prominently featured anymore.       My idea for a story would be a modern-day adaptation of s...

Amazing Stories - April 1926 Unit: Buddha      I am very interested in the Buddha's life and the concepts he talks about. This was the first Unit that caught my attention.  Unit: Monkey King      I've always seemed to find some interesting stories contained within Chinese folklore in the past. That's what drew me to click on this Unit. I also like how Eastern myths are less cliche than Western myths which tend to be more prevalent and overused in our society. This story also crosses paths with the character in my first chosen unit, the Buddha.  Unit: Russian Folktales      I've always wondered "why does nobody ever seem to talk about Russian folklore?" Russian mythology seems to be a blindspot when it comes to retelling stories from around the world. They are very under-featured, so I'm interested in exploring what Russia truly has to offer. Especially since Russia is a place where Eastern and Western cult...