Myth & Folklore

  (Image Information:  Minimalist art of Itachi Uchiha: https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/ip9psr/made_minimalist_art_of_itachi_uchiha/)

 Bibliography:  The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by h. J. Ford (1898).  The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-unit-voyages-of-sindbad.html (Image Information: The Thunderbird of Native Americans;  https://www.legendsofamerica.com/thunderbird-native-american/) -The second half of this story starts off similar to how the first part started, a little background information and a somewhat of a reminder that Sindbad is an individual who had a nice life but chose to be weary of its pleasures and look for a change and adventure in his life. -Sindbad decides to go on another trip/adventure, but on his own boat this time so he built and fitted one on his own at the nearest seaport. -This will allow Sindbad to decide his own journey, stop wherever he wants, take his time, and also invite whoever he wanted. -On this particular travel, they come across a huge roc's egg that was already nea...

  Bibliography:   The Arabian Nights' Entertainments  by Andrew Lang and illustrated by h. J. Ford (1898).  The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-unit-voyages-of-sindbad.html (Image Information: Jonah & The Whale of A Story  https://www.israelrevealed.com/what-whale-of-a-story/) -Sindbad was a wealthy individual who inherited considerable riches from his parents. As any other normal young kid will do with all that money, he too was foolish and was spending the wealth recklessly upon every type of fun and things he wanted to do.  -In order to spent the rest of his money in a meaningful way, he decided to sell all his belongings and buy a ship in Balsora and head for an adventure.  -They began landing at many different islands where they exchange or sold their merchandise. -One day, the wind died and they were forced to furl the sails and the captain of the boat gave permission to Sindbad and t...

Short Story Jordan jumped from the couch, flinging his hands up. “Dammit!” “What?” Jordan’s wife, Cat, yelled from the bathroom. “It’s over.” Mike shook his head. “My team is going to lose.” The Cowboys had led the Eagles 28-27 going into the fourth quarter. But now, with only seconds left in the game and trailing by 7, Jordan’s hope for a comeback had diminished. “Have faith,” said Cat. “Faith?” Jordan laughed. “They need a miracle.” Cat then held out the pregnancy stick as two lines darkened in the test window. “Maybe today they’ll get their miracle.” With his jaw-dropped, Jordan faced the TV. “Dammit!” Tweet Oklahoma: hangs 50* Florida: Stop the count!! (Image Information: Oklahoma stomps UCLA  https://www.bruinsnation.com/2019/9/14/20866428/oklahoma-stomps-ucla-bruins-48-14) Author's Note This microfiction was brought to you by my roommate's engagement! I am extremely happy for my good friend and his now fiance, I figured I'd write my own fear of marriage. Haha, I am no...

  Korean Folk Tales Imps, Ghosts and Fairies  by Im Bang & Yi Ryuk http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51002/51002-h/51002-h.htm#ch29 ( Image Information: Thor: How a Norse Warrior God of Thunder Handles a Predicament  https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/thor-how-norse-warrior-god-thunder-handles-predicament-009879) -This website and book alone contains so many different different Korean folk tales, this may be the only website I'll be using to reference the stories.  The three stories I'll be using are; ' The Snake's Revenge', 'Cursed by the Snake', 'Who Decides, God of the King?' The first two stories are almost pretty much given in the title. As the old saying goes, 'don't bite the hand that feeds you.' I and a lot of others agree that snakes are the one and only exception to this golden rule. I want to write a trickery story about how a snake came to be a king's advisor who constantly gives him bad advice, which le...

 Bibliography: Homer's Odyssey, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004) http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/myth-folklore-unit-homers-odyssey.html -As Odysseus and his crew set their way back to Ithaca, they reach an island that belongs to Cyclopes (one-eyed uncivilized humanoid creatures). -The story is told in first-person by Odysseus himself as he leads his men through the Land of the Cyclopes. -Including such unpredictable and dangerous creatures such as Cyclopes in a story certainly helps a story be more mysterious and jumpy.  -The Cyclopes were blessed by the gods and never had to plough or sow in order to grow their own food, but rather the gods let the food grow like mountains.  -Odysseus and his men decides to go into the cave of the Cyclopes and eat some of his food and is caught.  -Absolutely terrified, Odysseus tries to explain why they are there using the gods, hoping that would scare the giant into not harming them. He mentions Poseidon, the g...

( Image Information: Personal photo taken of trail of St. Helen's Lake, August 2020) Blackbeard  https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard Look, as an avid fan of One Piece, writing any project on Blackbeard would be a phenomenal idea. This topic would be fun to work with as I research more on the actual history behind Blackbeard and see what truly inspired Eiichiro Oda to create such a villain. Blackbeard was a renowned and notorious pirate who became an inspiration for an archetypal pirate in works of fiction across many genres.  Greek Mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology https://rickriordan.com/series/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians/ Reading a ton of Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus series, I have always loved the stories of Greek mythology. I could possibly write my own smaller version of a demigod story and create a project off of it. I used to fantasize about being half-Greek-god and half-human just to spi...

 Once upon a time, there was a poor woodcutter who lived with his mother. One day, he helped a wounded deer escape from hunters. As a show of gratitude, the deer told the woodcutter of a nearby pond where beautiful fairies came down from the heavens to visit and bathe in the pond every month. The deer pointed out that the woodcutter would be able to marry one of the fairies by hiding the fairy’s winged clothing which is her only means of flying back to heaven. He could then come to the rescue of the stranded fairy. The only condition he had to meet: everything was to be kept secret from his fairy wife until they had at least three children. With these instructions, the woodcutter was successful in taking a fairy as his wife, and they had two children together. Content and happy, the woodcutter now felt comfortable enough to prematurely come clean. He showed his wife the winged clothing. Upon seeing her wings again, the fairy wife could not help but be homesick all over again. She t...

 Bibliography:  - Romance of Old Japan, Part I: Mythology and Legend by E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917). http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/japan-eight-forked-serpent-of-koshi.html - Laos Folk-Lore by Katherine Neville Fleeson (1899).http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/laos-man-in-moon.html -Upon reading the stories;  The Man in the Moon and The Hare that was not Afraid to Die , I am beginning to be encouraged to write a more dialogue based story for this week as it really brings a picture of the characters together.  -Each actions committed between dialogues are so well described with kind adjectives and clear visualizations.  -These stories include older texts such as 'thou' and older way of communicating with others.  -Maybe I won't write the stories as if I am a 7 year old child explaining to their parents what happened at school that day.  -The Divine, Heavenly Beings: Susanoo and Orochi already had my undivided attenti...

  Hello and welcome to my first blog! My name is Taeam Kang and I will be taking you all on a trip down my life. I first came to the University of Oklahoma to major in Microbiology, Pre-Dental. I enjoyed the field of dentistry and made the effort the past three years to work and get as many shadowing hours and experience as possible. However, this past summer I had a change of heart and changed my major to Pre-Pharmacy in hopes to further my education in pharmacy school. My career goal is to become a head pharmacist for Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals. The reason I decided on Pre-Pharmacy rather than Pre-Dental is my hands strangely shake constantly and I decided it’d be best if I did not choose the hand-on surgery route. It is not a serious condition as one can barely even noticed without staring hard at my hands, but I will entrust the field of dentistry to those more qualified. I currently live with six of my friends in a house near campus. My family consists of my mother, step-father...