Theory and Practice of Myth

Classics 322, University of Oregon

Let’s pretend we’re at Yale!

Filed under: Folklore,PostsFromTheProf,Shapeshifters — davidc@uoregon.edu at 6:39 pm on Sunday, April 6, 2014

A lecture on the short story collection “Lost in the Funhouse”, from which the Menelaiad is taken (lecture 11 in the series if you don’t end up there):

Tam Lin

Filed under: Folklore,PostsFromTheProf,Shapeshifters — davidc@uoregon.edu at 6:25 pm on Sunday, April 6, 2014

Here’s Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer performing their version of a traditional British ballad about a shape-shifter: They aren’t the first modern folk artists to have a go at this: These are both versions of Child Ballad #39. See also Benjamin Zephaniah and Peter Gabriel’s version. There are in fact hundreds of versions of the […]

 
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