Myth and One-Dimensionality
Hansen, William. Humanities; Basel Vol. 6, Iss. 4,
“If legends are traditional reports of allegedly true events, folktales are traditional fictions. Unlike legends, they make no serious claim to historicity and are not normally accorded credence. Supernatural or otherworldly characters—witches, giants, helpers with magic objects, talking animals, and so on—are also found in folktales, usually (as in legends) in a secondary role, but a peculiarity of folktales is that the human characters react to otherworldly phenomena as though such things were perfectly ordinary and unremarkable. The actors are not astonished at them and do not fear them. They are not even curious about them. They accept them and go on their way.”
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