Is “folklore mindset” nihilist if you believe that stories are valuable, but are still trying to figure out what stories are for?
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I don't understand what "told for true" means here. This idea sounds Taleban.
it’s one way folklorists distinguish legends from fairytales - legends are told as if true, meant to be believed (like news stories)
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Ah so "told for true" is a sort of term of art for an assumed folkloric consensus that everybody politely pretends to buy? No that does not sound nihilist to me. More like a sort of "don't think too much" faith.
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it’s a term I got from a very old dead tree book that stuck in my head idk it makes sense to me
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