LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
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Legends and Myths
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Myths and Fairy Tales
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Tall tales and Fables
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Folk tale and Legends
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Three Types of Myths: Aetiological, Historical, and Psychological.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ancient Greek mythology is riddled with tales about natural phenomena. Among them are those that explain how the sun, stars, and other heavenly bodies supposedly came to be. Other myths dealt with the weather, including thunder, lightning, storms, and rainbows.
Detailed explanation-3: -Folkloristics, the study of Folklore, is the study of human expressive culture, and includes myths, legends, folk-and fairy-tales, jokes, proverbs, jump-rope rhymes, material culture, and much more. It offers rich insight into human behavior, creativity, and belief systems.
Detailed explanation-4: -Traditionally myths and legends were largely born from the need to provide an explanation for phenomena that people didn’t know or understand, like illness, death, love, war, social conventions or natural disasters like floods and earthquakes.