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#+TITLE: Legends & St. Ann's Retreat
* Folktale
Ficitional stories, obviously false, unreal things happen (pigs talking)
* Legend
** FOAF (Friend of a Friend)
Believed, or believable
Removed from it in some way (the more removed the "bigger" the story gets)
* Memorate
"I had this experience"
An unusual, out of the ordinary experience (not always supernatural). This is
first person, as opposed to a legend.
* Legend Trip (Ostension)
Heard a story, wanted to visit.
** Roots in Pilgrimage
Old, pre-christian
** Three-Part Structure
Patterened
1. Hear the story
2. Interaction, go to the area
3. Retell, spread the story, you become part of the legend
* Supernatural thinking
** Evolutionary Hypothesis
*** Social Control
** Folk Belief vs. Superstition
* (CONTINUED)
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