Cow Head Mythology

“The Truth About Stories is that that’s all we are”.(King 2003,p. 2).Stories have a great importance as they make people more joyous and creative. Stories let the narrator to speak but he is not really the one who is speaking. The narrator retells the stories in merely same language but totally in different tone. These stories improve ones belief towards life. The narrator interacts with the listener through

Bill Ellis’s, “Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder,” speaks to how cultural and societal fear can not only form and inform legend, but can inspire real world, physical consequences. These consequences are material acts known as Ostension. Ostension is the liminal ground where the narrative of legend meets personal experience. Ostension, and particularly legend-tripping, is, by necessity, grown out of the cultural source hypothesis, as both require knowledge of a legend before the experience can occur. The first stage of the legend-trip, according to Michael Kinsella in the chapter,“The Performance of Legend-Tripping,” is the telling or retelling of the narrative(s) of the site or ritual participants are about to embark

Stories are powerful. In the past, long before books, people used stories to pass down history and legends to create a deeper understanding of their heritage. It was also a way to pass down morals and values from generation to generation. More than just a way of preserving the past, storytelling is a great way to bridge the gap between a reader’s heart and that of the writer. Everyone has a story to tell no matter what kind it may be. Although there is an art to storytelling, at its very foundation, the practice is merely a means of communicating one’s experiences. Perhaps out of a lack of

In the urban legend titled “Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Turn on the Light” there were two college roommates and on a night before a big test one of them went to a party and the other decided to stay in the dorm and study. When the roommate came home late from the party she went straight to bed without turning on the light so she wouldn’t wake her roommate. In the morning, she found her roommate murdered in her bed and the words,” aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?” written on the wall in blood. This urban legend has core elements that closely relate to “Humans Can Lick Too” so it could have been created around the same time. These elements are that the main character is a young woman, a murder takes place right in front of her, and

what’s Sacred Cow? According to a web article a “sacred cow” can be defined as “a person or thing immune to criticism or questioning, as in The rules governing the press conference have become a sacred cow in this administration. This term alludes to the honored status of cows in Hinduism, where they are a symbol of God's generosity to humankind. It has been used figuratively since about 1900.” A Sacred Cow project refers to financial statements that are often believed to be true resulting them not being argued that much, but they lack any scientific backing.

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like the flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” (Sebold 186)

Horror stories draw off of our primitive fears as people, and in that way they can plant fears in

I have always believed in the power of the story. From the oral epics of the first civilizations to the blockbuster films showing on the big screen today, storytelling remains a practice at the core of the human experience. The messages contained within them are contagious, spreading through the minds of its audience and impacting the way they see the world. My captivation with stories has inspired me to create stories of my own; for as long as I can remember, my head has been brimming with plots, characters, and worlds. As I grow older, the possibility of my passion making positive contributions has motivated me to pursue my wishes.

Nowadays, the development of technology affects the way we search for the information. For instance, stories that have been told only within families or small groups of people can now be exposed to the internet, where these stories are shared amongst hundreds of people. Urban legend, by definition, is a humorous or horrific story that people usually believe, even when there is no proof of where it started from, or of the trustworthiness of that story. Urban legends have appealed to many ranges of audiences since this genre tends to attract many individuals. For instance, college students have taken an interest towards these legends, whether they like the strange stories or the actual messages behind it. Urban legends have taught college students the themes, which are based on the reflection of their conflicts or problems that they have dealt with. The two common themes of urban legends that represent the problem that college students are dealing with are the conflicts between college students and their professors and the paranormal and horror events that occur in their life.

Storytelling is a sacred art and is being constantly being changed and altered. A good story can be the best way to teach a lesson. Support 1, How To Tell A Story Telling a story can be easy.

During the course, we watched a Ted Talk Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie address the dangers of a single-story narrative. The problems with a single story are they create stereotypes, the problem with stereotypes isn’t that they're untrue but that they are incomplete. Both pieces of literature we have read in class contain characters detailing the damage specifically The Truth About Stories by Thomas King and Indian Horse by Richard Wagameses.

There was once a man and his son who had a cow.They had very little grass for the cow to eat.A man who walked past their 3 bedroom Austrian house said “You should buy big pieces of land.” They did what he suggested .The cow happily munched on the grass for 4 days until the cow had eaten it up.They spent 3/4 of their money to buy a 5 acre piece of land.A week later a woman walking by their house said”Buy little pieces of land.”They listened to her suggestion as well.The 1 acre land then bought was eaten in 1 day buy the cow.They had 8/10 of the 1/4 they had left.4 days later a little boy seen the hungry cow being milked and the lack of grass.He happily suggested “maybe you could buy big and small land plots.The son told his father the idea

It is not an astounding observation to say that there exists (or existed at one point in time) thousands, possibly millions, of stories on Earth. Stories that our innocent young selves were subjected to in elementary school that have influenced the way we see ourselves and those around us, more so than we would like to admit. Stories that our parents have read to us late at night willing us with their words of cats in hats and cows jumping over the moon to shut our eyelids and drift off to sleep, and stories that come and visit us in our dreams, usually only for a moment, leaving behind traces of its scent the next morning. We are a species who thrive on this thing called 'story', much the same way a bee thrives on honey or a poet thrives

In a small farming village named Haten around 1648, a legend spread through the town. It said that if a hunter lucky enough to find and shoot a blue spirit in the form of a rabbit with a bow and arrow in the Devil’s Woods, they could cure any illness that was afflicted with a human. Of course, many people jumped at this myth, and set out to find those rabbits so they could cure the mysterious illness the village leader had, as a great reward was being held. In their travels, many of them never returned or came back with serious injuries, and more rumors told how a malicious beast named Raion, a centaur with a lion’s head, that wielded a sword and a magical bow wandered the forest, picking off hunters one by one who dared hunt the blue rabbits. One hunter, however, was unfazed by these tales of

Urban legends tend to have a darkness to them used to give a warning or tell a moral. The study of this type of folklore is important since it is responsible for revealing the morals, beliefs and fears of the group of people or culture the story circulates within. The elements and storylines observed helps to give insight of the history and subconscious of the people.