i have a question.....in myths and folklore?
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I have been looking this up since I saw your question yesterday.  the only name i have come up with is Clara M valentine.  she is the daughter of levi valentine who built the house.  I did find out that there is a male ghost by the name of jon.  I hope this was of some help.  I don't know if clara is the ghost or not, but it seems logical to me. As far as i can tell she is the only girl who would have lived there in the 1800's.
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Greetings! There are several legends surrounding this rock on the Rhine River in German folklore, the most common tale centering around a strikingly beautiful maiden (Lorelei)whose immense beauty so "enchanted" the men-folk, and because her lover was faithless and left her, she sought the love of others. As a result, the townsfolk charged her with being a witch, fearing she had brought sin to the town. She was brought before the Bishop and put to trial, but was declared innocent. Instead of death, it was ordered she serve in a Convent. Lorelei begged for death, but was denied, and as she was being brought to the Convent, she passed by a steep cliff, where it is said that she leapt to her death. The legend has it that she was turned into a Siren, and the sound of her singing so mesmerized the sailors who sailed past, prompting them to look up to the rock. Upon doing this though, their boats would crash against the rocks and sink.\n\nAnother version of the legend simply says that the beautiful maiden, Lorelei, was so grieved by the betrayal and loss of her lover that she hurled herself into the river. She was then transformed into a siren and her hypnotic singing could be heard echoing among the rocks, bringing sailors to their deaths.\n\nI hope this helps :-)
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i don't know about the game, but as far as myth goes natural born lycans can control transformation, its the ones that have been "cursed" or bitten that can't control the transformation.
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Stranger, the problem as I see it is that you do not understand the concept of myth.  You have no fundamental knowledge of what myth is trying to achieve.  So, let me educate you.  Let me give you a little something from Joseph Campbell, who is perhaps the world's foremost scholar of mythology. Among his many books are The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks Of God, Myths To Live By, and Historical Atlas Of World Mythology.  The question and quote are taken from an interview given by Joseph Campbell in the 1980s.\n\n\n"Question - What does myth do for us? Why is it so important?\n\nAnswer, by Joseph Campbell - It puts you in touch with a plane of reference that goes past your mind and into your very being, into your very gut. The ultimate mystery of being and non-being transcends all categories of knowledge and thought. Yet that which transcends all talk is the very essence of your own being, so you're resting on it and you know it. The function of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of "Aha! Yes. I know what it is, it's myself." This is what it's all about, and then you feel a kind of centering, centering, centering all the time. And whatever you do can be discussed in relationship to this ground of truth. Though to talk about it as truth is a little bit deceptive because when we think of truth we think of something that can be conceptualized. It goes past that."\n\n\nDoes this help you to understand that there is MORE than the literal, in mythology?  In fact, myth challenges us to look past the imagery in order to find the deeper meaning.\n\nGood luck on our journey.
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http://www.mythweb.com/
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I do believe in faeries, I do, I do! And so do many of my friends. Some even claim to have seen faeries When we sit around the fire telling faerie stories, They're all true. And we've all got our stories.\n\nHave you ever put something down when no one was around, and when you went back it wasn't there? Then a few days later it shows up exactly where you left it? That's what faeries do. Faeries are very playful. Most cultures have stories of playful little magickal creatures. They have lots of different names in each mythology, but I know them as faeries. If you put out offerings, you get the stuff back sooner.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.\n\nAnother camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.\n\nA friend recently posted in her blog that she had lost a piece off her necklace, and it was no where to be found. One day her husband found it, right where he had been standing barefoot moments earlier, in plain sight, and in a spot where she had vacuumed earlier. There it was, in a place in plain sight where it hadn't been earlier\n\nThe trick is to make offerings to the fae OUTSIDE of your house. Preferably far outside your house, like at a nearby state park. They like honey. They also like shiny bobbles. Be sure to respect their sacred spaces, and possibly give them a little faery altar (which can be as simple as three flat rocks placed on top of each other with something shiny sitting on it. They also like shiny things tied to trees.\n\nThese are just a few of my Faery stories. My friends have a great many more. We've seen many things which defy mundane explanations.
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♡I have read many Japanese myths and stories since coming to Japan and I have yet to come across one about the apocalypse. In my opinion most Japanese myths seem to be similar to those of other countries including Greece. If you'd like to read a few Japanese myths, please check the site below. It's a great site and I think you'll get a good idea about Japanese myths. Hope this helps!♡
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Is that where they stuck it?\n\nI was like "What the..." where is my religion if it is not in here... \n\nI have found some in other, but still.\n\nI hate it when people, just cause it is not their religion, shove others religion into myth, fantasy, or just say it is evil. \n\nWhile there is mythology also known as stories of the gods, goddesses, and heroes; involved in Wicca and other religions. If you are going to put Wicca there, you might as well put Christianity there too cause with my definition of mythology "The bible" is christian mythology.\n\nAs a fellow pagan (with some Wicca leanings), hail and blessed be.\n\nPS. Protest to yahoo customer service, I am...\nhttp://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/answers/cgi_feedback
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I believe people explain things to the best of their knowledge, and the people in the past are no different. As a general rule, mythology has some connection to fact - even if it is a very slim link.\n\nLet's take for example the Centaur - a being that has the body of a horse, and the torso of a man where the horses head would be. Now, imagine if you will that you have no concept of saddlery and you see at a distance a man or group of men riding horses. Anyone knows that a well-trained rider on a horse can appear to be fluid, and accomplish some amazing feats, so at a distance it might seem that a four-legged beast with the torso of a man is maneuvering. So the beginnings of a myth are created, and are propagated by the retelling of this tale.\n\nConsider another example - Dragons. While the exact appearance of a dragon varies (Eastern vs Western, wyrms vs serpents), one common detail is large size. Now, despite the reluctance of the current government, it can be agreed that China is the site of amazing fossil remains, as are many other locations all over the world. Imagine that someone was to dig up large petrified bones, but had no concept of 'dinosaurs' or the theory of evolution. A peasant, a magistrate, a knight, a feudal lord - all might surmise that they are the bones of a large animal and where there is one large animal, there are others. Eastern mythology places Dragons as part of the Celestial Order, Western mythology sees them as the test of mettle and chivalric valour. Again, the tale is told to any who will listen and gains some credence in folklore.\n\nGranted, this is supposition on my part, and might be a grand example of pulling together some half-assed truths. Then again, people judge their world by their own experiences and knowledge. It is easy enough for 'errors' in the retelling of tales about foreign creatures or things found to accumulate over time. From here, a fact becomes a tall tale, and over an age become legend and then myth. \n\nBesides - you know how gullible some people are...   8)
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No! That's complete nonsense. It's pure folklore or something that someone came up with when they were bored.
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The more important question is Do YOU believe in these things. A little advice, and I DO speak from experience...be careful what you ask for, and what you search for. If you really want to learn about such things you must search for the answers yourself and decide whether or not what you find out rings true. \n\nYou are right...We do indeed live in a world that is not what it appears to be...but what is truth and what are lies, and what is myth...all of these things are completely different (obviously). It is you, though, who decides this. Do not let anyone else tell you otherwise. Some people are very closed minded.
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If one see animals that are not from this realm it doesn't negate that they exist, it merely means that they are seeing beyond this plain of existance. I have as a Totem animal the mighty Lepreachaun named Erniesta O'Latern of the Spanish Donegal and People try and tell me all the time that She doesn't exist yet I know that She does. So yes Sweetie Pie mythological Totems do exist and Your friend is really seeing those non existant armidillos. My other Totem when Erniesta is out of town ( She has a time share in the Caymans ) is Santa Claus! People are hard pressed to say Old Nicky doesn't exist eh, eh?.
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How about this version of the myth?
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can I point out that all four of them are fiction stories with fiction heroes.......they ARE mythology.
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Folklore is much more recent and is usually based on somebody's real experience, the details of which have been passed down for some generations. Mythology goes back into the far distant past and it is not known to have any real historical or factual basis.
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For a more detailed discussion, try Wikipedia.  There is applicable information in both the History and Mythology sections.  Happy Star Gazing.
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It all depends on the story.  In general, the stories from those sacred texts are considered myth.  However, more and more achaeological evidence is surfacing that backs up many of the stories, or, at least, the historical fact the myths are built around.