Mythology and Folklore Blog

For this week's story lab, I explored the Writer's Write website and read three different articles. My thoughts on each will be summarized below. Overall I liked this site a lot. There were so many different types of articles about every aspect of writing. I will say that there were so many ads on the site it took forever to get pages to load which was a disappointment. (Bookstore from Pixabay ) 45 Ways to Avoid Using the Word Never  This article is mostly just a list of adjectives to use instead of very. For example, instead of saying very tired, say exhausted. I chose to read this article because I know that I sometimes fall into the very trap. I just get lazy and don't want to think too hard about another, stronger word so I just put in very. To combat that I can definitely come back to this article when I feel stuck to give my writing more oomph. The 17 Most Popular Genres in Fiction  I was interested to read this article because there are so many genres I ha...

How Sickness Entered the World (Ladder Snake from Wikipedia ) Plot: There used to be no sickness in the world. Instead, everyone lived long healthy lives until it was time to meet the Great Spirit. There was an old medicine man who heard much from the Great Spirit and was widely regarded. He was getting very old and was too tired to meet the Great Spirit and asked two young men to meet the Great Spirit's messenger for him. The two men agreed and while they were waiting for the messenger a large snake approached. Frightened of the snake the men beat it to death. They waited and no messenger came. They went back to the old man and told him what had happened. The old man was dismayed for he knew the snake had been the messenger. When he told the men they had killed the messenger they became afraid and moved the body to another tribe's camp. Over and over men moved the snake's body from camp to camp. The snake's mate was enraged and laid an egg at each camp which the ...

The Plant that Grows in Trees (Mistletoe from Wikipedia Commons ) Plot: Mistletoe used to grow on the ground like other plants until a bird moved it to the trees. A thunderbird could not find any berries so it came down to the ground and ate the berries from the mistletoe. After eating, the bird thanked the plant. The mistletoe was very sad and told the bird he would die anyway since he is the only plant with berries all year long. The thunderbird took pity on the plant and carried it up to the mesquite tree and placed it there. The plant was grateful but was saddened that he would survive and his seeds would fall to the ground where they would grow and be eaten by animals. To this, the thunderbird said the seeds would stick to the tree and would grow in the trees. In this way, the thunderbird saved the mistletoe from other animals and now mistletoe grows on trees. Lesson: The Tejas legends which I read for Part A had a lot of origin stories like the one I de...