All About History - History of Folklore, Fairytales and Monsters (2019)

All About History: History of Folklore, Fairytales and Monsters (2019)

English | 132 pages | HQ True PDF | 289 mb



Fairytales, said GK Chesterton, are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. The problem is, famously, that Chesterton never said that; Neil Gaiman merely claimed that he did. It made for a good story. And that’s exactly how folklore and fairytales work: the basic germ of an idea is built and rebuilt by storytellers and societies over and over again according to the needs and wants of their community, ever-changing and yet ever the same. Find out how and why archaic lore is so important to us, explore ancient stories and old adages, learn about how folklore is collected and preserved, and how what you think you know about our most well-loved tales is by no means the whole story, as we journey into the magical land of “Once upon a time...”



Folklore

10 Popular antiquities

18 Weather lore

20 The lore of nature

22 Collecting history through folktales

28 The lore of love

30 Luck of the lore

32 Exploring world folklore

36 Staying healthy

38 Hearth and home

40 Folklore re-evaluated

44 The lore of water

46 Folklore or fakelore?

Fairytales

52 Folklore versus fairytales

56 The history of fairytales

62 What makes a fairytale?

66 Animals

68 Magic

70 Religious tales

72 Realistic fairytales

74 Tales of the Stupid Ogre

76 Anecdotes and jokes

78 Formula tales

80 Fairytale archetypes

86 Origins of well-loved tales

Monsters

94 Monsters and mythical beasts

100 Werewolves

102 The undead

104 Vampires

106 The church grim

108 Hybrids

110 Dragons

112 Sea monsters

114 Mermaids

116 Fairies

118 The old gods

120 Giants

122 The phoenix

124 The unicorn

126 The white deer