SLFK 211 Tale and Legend

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SLFK 211- Tale and Legend

• Instructors
• Natalie Kononenko
• Lectures
• Rachel Taylor
• Sections
• Web page
• Faculty.virginia.edu/
• kononenko

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Course mechanics

• Section and lecture
• Grading
• Add-ins

• Course goals
• Information
• Skills
• Habits of mind

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What is folklore?

• Okay tale (as in folktale)
• And legend as in historical, urban
• What else???
• Their ideas
• Next, I present various items and you mark on a
  sheet of paper whether or not you think they are
  folklore
• Answer next lecture bring sheet with you

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Rushnyky ritual towels
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More items

• Fortune-telling with daisy petals
• See a penny pick it up
• Heads or tails on penny
• MASH
• Lego

• Hungry Hippo
• Magic the Gathering
• Dunlora
• Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky
• Bat Boy
• Found in cave
• Hit by truck

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