Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Week 13 Reading Diary B: Khasi Folktales (cont'd)

Khasi Folktales

The Leap of Ka Likai
  • WTF this guy is seriously messed up. And people say women are over-emotional?
  • Honestly, if I learned that I had just eaten the flesh of my own child, I'd probably go crazy, too. 
  • Storytelling idea: the mom goes insane and the child comes back to haunt the step father
What Caused the Shadows on the Moon
  • Interesting that both water and fire are girls. They probably felt a little neglected here
  • This is such a cool story! I love that the sister throws hot ash in her brother's face
  • Oddly enough, the moon is normally portrayed as female and the sun and male - why is it switched here?  
Full moon in the darkness of the night sky. It is patterned with a mix of light-tone regions and darker, irregular blotches, and scattered with varying sizes of impact craters, circles surrounded by out-thrown rays of bright ejecta.
The moon (Source)
  • This would make an INSANELY scary horror film. Creeeeeepy
  • U Ksuid seems more like he should be a sympathetic character rather than the antagonist
  • But really...tickling to death? What is this?

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