The 80s are this unexpected (by me) golden age of folklore studies. Motherlode of insight porn - those folks are deep.
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@St_Rev My favorite right now is a paper by Bill Ellis ("When is a Legend?") tracing the life cycle of a legend.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev Early on, there's a marginal experience; then that gets translated into language eventually. -
@St_Rev Third, in subsequent tellings it gets polished into a finished narrative. -
@St_Rev Eventually everybody in the group knows it, so it's rarely performed, only referred to in shorthand (metonym). -
@St_Rev Finally, it exists only as a memory of a legend, as a legend report. -
@sarahdoingthing That's exactly my theory of mysticism in a nutshell.
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