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.