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Folk Motifs

Folk Motifs. Just some of the very many recurring lot elements we find in folk literature. Sources:http://pixel.fhda.edu/Content/Dept/InstrDev/Templates/child_lit_style/Model/L5PrintVersion.html and Norton, Through the Eyes of a Child 5 th ed. Motifs.

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Folk Motifs

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  1. Folk Motifs Just some of the very many recurring lot elements we find in folk literature Sources:http://pixel.fhda.edu/Content/Dept/InstrDev/Templates/child_lit_style/Model/L5PrintVersion.html and Norton, Through the Eyes of a Child 5th ed.

  2. Motifs • a younger brother or sister who is good • an elder brother or sister who is mean or evil • a clever trickster • a wicked stepmother • a poor or mistreated younger child • the use of magical objects • a marvelous transformation

  3. Motifs • a long sleep or enchantment • magical powers • an incantation (“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall”) • three wishes • trickery • the power of naming (as in “Rumpelstiltskin”) • invisibility

  4. Motifs • becoming stuck somehow • the number 3 or 7 • a repetitive phrase • a journey • repetitive tasks • a wise or a foolish beast • a family member leaves home • a villain surveys the situation

  5. Motifs • hero or heroine is forbidden to do something • hero or heroine violates an order forbidding something • villain attempts to trick the victim in order to possess the victim or the victim’s belongings • hero or heroine leaves home • hero or heroine is tested, interrogated, or attacked, which prepares the way for him or her to receive a magical agent or a helper

  6. Joseph Campbell and the Monomyth • the hero or heroine undergoes: • separation from the familiar world • initiation into new truths and understanding • return to the original world, where that newly won insight makes a difference

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