Post 2: The Three Wishes by Ricardo E. Alegria

The tales all seem very interesting, however the second tale stood out to me greater than the other tales. It wasn't like the other two in the sense of it actually being "made up". The other two tales could of had some truth to it, considering it involved real life interactions. This tale involved an inanimate small ant, who couldn't communicate its feelings to the world, however it showed existence of god nevertheless. It can be inferred, who ever created the tale believed that god is the answer to everything regardless of the situation or species. Folktales created without truth to it, display a greater moral ending then those with some truth to it in my mind. It shows the imagination of ones mind in a certain time period, and its relation to the development of their culture's history in the sense of religion, education and moral, greater than the moral endings of the other two tales in which some may disagree. The first tale with Juan, was a bit confusing. I was confused in the sense of what exactly the moral was. The last tale seemed like something I already heard previously, being the most probable reasons why the second tale of the ant in search of her leg was the most interesting to me

Post 1: Folklore

The article does a great job in describing what folklore is and the ways it is normally viewed as. It has given me a different prospective on folklore, I was originally thinking the way the article states everyone normally views folklore as, old and fake. Whenever I did hear about my families traditions and hear different kinds of weird stories it always seemed so distant and old. The way folklore is passed on through tradition gives it this pre-conceived notion that it is old and something that has been going on for years. Not only family stories, but the same goes for the "lucky shirt" example the article gives, it feels as if everyone knows that old myth already. Everyone knows that its best to wear your lucky shirt on game day to increase your chances/hopes of winning. It isn't something we haven't heard, and somehow its talked about so much that eventually it is known widespread. That I feel also adds to the "old" concept, as we age we constantly hear the same myths over and over again, it becomes viewed as "nothing new". It now becomes something we've heard when we were younger, about fifth teen years ago and when look back on it the first thought is "Man, that has been going on for years". According to the article, the author does not want folklore to be seen as "old", however the way folklore is learned from people to people instead of through education, learning myths from any given age puts folklore at risk of being thought of as old all by itself. Through education you learn different lessons at a certain age in which your brain has expand further enough to absorb and understand the information. Even though the article has change my views on folklore, all myths previously heard are still viewed at as old to me, that cant change because of the way I have learned about it. However, if I was to hear of new myths, it has opened my mind to look at it in a different perspective instead of already having my own assumptions.