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06-15-2018, 02:45 PM | #32 |
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Alternatively, their purer nature may make them more vulnerable to magic than the impure nature of life.
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06-15-2018, 03:32 PM | #33 |
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Sure, there are many ways to look at the thing.
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06-18-2018, 05:39 PM | #34 |
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Well, obviously, some stories about Solomon presumably go back to Bronze Age Palestine — but dating the stories attached to his name in the oral traditions of Arabia would be a ... challenging exercise. And putting a date on the 1,001 Nights is deep into “How long is a piece of string?” territory, especially if one is allowed to trace it back into its (Indian??) roots.
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06-19-2018, 05:11 AM | #36 |
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I think the stories all trace back to a single prehistoric source, after Joseph Campell was accidentally transported through time while serving on the USS Eldridge and mistakenly left a copy of his book behind.
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06-19-2018, 12:32 PM | #37 |
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06-19-2018, 04:23 PM | #38 |
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Or girl becoming a woman, in cultural context. Eventually she must pass from childhood and the protection of her grandmother to that of a man, the woodsman.
The wolf can represent any number of things, from innate bestial nature to literal wild animals to anything else a culture may decide girls must be protected from.
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Hood doesn't fit Campbell's Hero's Journey fetish as she was ultimately rescued by an unrelated man.
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An episode of some show in the vein of Tales From The Darkside involved a wizard that had to substitute for a missing ingredient and instead of summoning a wish granting demon, summoned a life insurance salesman from our world. And this trope is how many "mundanes" get transported to fantasy settings as the beginning to books and movies after all.
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