SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper examines the intersection of anti-colonial resistance, gender politics, and sexual exploitation in Love, Death & Robots S01E08, “Good Hunting” (2019), through the lens of the Chinese fox spirit (hulijing) mythology. The hulijing, a shapeshifting figure in Chinese folklore, embodies themes of feminine autonomy, seduction, and transformation, serving as a potent symbol of both subjugation and empowerment. S…

Reference · Wikidata

collection of sacred stories or a set of beliefs belonging to a specific religious or cultural tradition

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is totally different from the ordinary sense of the term myth, meaning a belief that is not true, as the veracity of a piece of folklore is entirely irrelevant to determining whether it constitutes a myth.

Book · DOAB

This book by the renowned Russian linguist and semiotician Nikolai Mikhailov [Николай Александрович Михайлов] (1967–2010) is now published posthumously, more than ten years after his death. Presented is analytic overview of numerous past studies on Slavic and Balto-Slavic mythology. Included are works written by scholars of Slavic mythology based on written sources as well as on findings from folklore, linguistics, …

Full text · Open Library

Heroes, Gods and Monsters in Ancient Greek Mythology' is a collection of classic archetypal Ancient Greek myths, including the stories of Jason, Perseus, Odysseus, Heracles, Oedipus and Theseus, and many more dark and delirious, famous Ancient Greek myths. These stories, which have had a great influence on thinkers throughout the centuries, inform popular culture even today. Here they are told as if by a fireside st…

Image · DPLA

Issue 46.1 of the Review for Religious, January/February 1987.