Myth & Folklore

( 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...