Tuesday, October 22, 2013
W.B. Yeats Irish Folktales
For my first book I decided to read Irish Folktales. Which is a collection of many of the fairy tales and folk tales of Celtic myth. It goes back to the very ancient myths of Ireland like with the banshee and the bog people. It shows how much of Irish history are very contrasted to one another. Many of the fairy tales are very happy and spritely like the tales of the fairies in the forest and then it can go to a very dark grim story of the banshee that wails when someone is about to die and the ghost stories of the bog people that live in the swamps and would take people in the night and drown them in the swamps. The myths of the Irish aren't all to different then many of the surrounding countries and are very ancient Myths. A lot of the myths in this book are derived from many Gothic themes with their dark tones and their strange atmosphere. This book is a very interesting collection of many of the tales of Ireland's people.
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ReplyDeleteThe fact that your book covered many types of folktales, both happy and dark ones, and didn't merely discuss one kind in particular, is very useful. With a book describing not just many folktales, but many kinds of folktales, you're able to work with a lot more information and make a better analysis of the topic, and even contrast the lighter and darker folktales together to see what kind of events would inspire either a positive story or a negative story.
ReplyDeleteI find the story of the bog people living in the swamps and drowning people quite interesting.