Myth-Folklore

Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html The was an evil uncle who always killed the next nephew born into their family. His wife figure that when the next boy was born he could take the child right away and pretend it was a girl. The woman had the child and the uncle thought it was a girl so he let it be. A few years passed and the little boy was changing and the uncle found out that it was a boy. So he said tomorrow you will come with me into the woods. The wife was very upset and cried all night. The boy took three things from his room before he left. He took a small knife, a special juice, and blow up small raft.  The uncle took the boy out into the woods. They went hunting and the boy kept seeing things to hunt but the uncle insisted they keep going. They came across a bear and the uncle let the bear eat the boy. The uncle went home and left the boy to die. The boy pulled out the knif...

Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html There was a couple and the women was pregnant. While the husband was out hunting the Red-women came and cut open her stomach. She found two twin boys. She threw one behind the curtain and the other in a spring. She stood the women up with a stick and burned her lip to make it look like she was laughing. Her husband came home, tired from hunting and asked why his wife was laughing at him. He then pushed her over and realized she was dead and he knew the red women had done it.  The man heard a voice ask for food and the boy came out of the curtain. The boy asked his dad to make him arrows and later that day he shot them at the boy who was living in the spring. The father said that the boy should tell the spring boy to come and live with them. So they planned to play arrows one day. They caught the boy and brought him back to their house and they all l...

 Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html There was a man known as the "unnatural Uncle. " He killed his nephews after they turned a couple years old and already had done it a couple times. The wife of this man planned to have a another child and lie about the fact if it was a boy and pretend that it was a girl. The nephew was born and brought up like a girl but the unnatural uncle always thought she acted like a boy. The unnatural uncle found out that it was really a boy and told his wife to have him come meet him. Before he left his house he took three items with him, a sour cranberry, a piece of a knife, and some eagle-down. He said lets go find some wood to the boy. The uncle trapped him underneath a pile of wood but the boy used a sour cranberry he had to get himself out of the logs. He went back into town and brought his uncle wood and he was very confused and angry that his nephew ...

Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html There was a Lord of the Heavens and he did not like Sun Wu King, also know as the Monkey King. the Monkey King was liked by everyone and was very powerful, the other monkeys in the land followed his ruling and obeyed what he told them to do. But the Lord of Heavens wanted to be the one that everyone obeyed and followed as their king. So one day he decided that he would punish the Monkey King. He sent down a slayer from the heavens to go down to the land and kill the Monkey King. The slayer went down and went to the Monkey King and told him that he was sent down from the Lord of the Heavens so the Monkey King assumed that this could not be good. The slayer automatically went into attack mode and started trying to kill the Monkey King. But the Monkey King was too powerful and knocked him down immediately. The slayer was nervous but knew that the Lord of Heavens would not be happy if he didn't accompli...

Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html The  Lord of the Heavens sat in his castle and received complaints of the Dragon-King of the Eastern Sea and the ten Princesses of the Dead. The Lord looked through them and made an order to prison the Sun Wu King. But the evening star said that the monkey is very pure. The evening star took Sun Wu King up to the sky to get his punishment instead. The monkey went up to the heavens admitting that he has been wanting to go there and did not know the rules of the land. The monkey then thanked them for letting him into the heavens. He stayed up there for more than a month and his friends has created a banquet for him.  Sun Wu King asked what his title meant and asked if it was higher than everyone else. The stable master said that it is not high at all. He told him he was to attend to the steeds and if they grow fast he will be rewarded. The monkey king was not happy and said that they treated...

 Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html On an island called the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits there is a rock that began the world. One day the rocked bursted and out came an ape. He learned to walk and jump and do all of sort things which scared the lord of the heavens. So he called two gods to see what was happening. The apes once found a waterfall and said that whoever could go down without injury would be the king. So the stone ape went down and found a heavenly cave. They went through and found pots and platters made of stone. Then the stone ape was named handsome King of the Apes and he made other people appointed positions as well.  One day the King of Apes got sad and his friends asked what was wrong. The King of Apes said he was crying because he knew he was going to die one day and then all the other apes started to cry as well. An old ape then told them that some things don't die. Like gods and blessed spirits. So t...

 I am happy with my progress in this class so far. I feel like I have kept up and completed each assignment needed so I am happy with that. I am most proud of all the different types of stories I have written so far. I feel like I have done many different styles of writing, even some out of my comfort zone. I do have a good weekly schedule going. My favorite assignment has been the project and having the freedom to write it about whatever I want. I think it has been very fun to pick a topic that I enjoy and an interested in. I have not don any of the extra credit assignments yet. I think things have gone well in terms of my blog and website, I think they are coming along nicely.  I think in the second half of the semester I will try to do some of the extra credit so I can try to finish in week 13. I also think I will try to get ahead of schedule so that I can finish early as well. I don't think there is anything I want to change with my blog or website I think I just want to k...