11/23/2023 0 Comments Oral storytelling![]() ![]() A good example is the creation story told by Lloyd Arneach, a Cherokee storyteller. The Cherokees who once inhabited north Georgia maintain a living tradition of oral myths in western North Carolina. In the United States, oral myths (as opposed to the literary mythology of the Bible) are found primarily among Native Americans. More specifically, myths are defined as the sacred stories supporting a religion they often explain the present order of things as the creation of divinities, who are the chief characters. Myths and legends, on the other hand, are belief tales, regarded as true accounts of past events they can be entertaining but principally serve to support the belief system and as folk history. Folktales are those orally transmitted stories that are understood as fictitious they function mainly as entertainment but also convey values. Today, jokes are exchanged during office breaks and after work at bars scary stories are told at slumber, or spend-the-night, parties and around Scout campfires and urban legends circulate in beauty parlors, school cafeterias, and college fraternity and sorority suites.įolklorists divide folk narratives into two main categories, based on the storytelling community’s attitudes. ![]() In rural Georgia such physical settings included general stores (with their “liars’ bench” out front), hunting camps, and the shaded porch and fireside of homes social occasions involving storytelling included community “workings” such as corn shucking and syrup making, and, for southwest Georgians, annual family treks by covered wagon to the Florida coast to buy salted fish. Traditional storytelling took-and still takes-place wherever small groups have gathered to work and socialize. Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
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