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Rsss 315 Final Study Guide Questions & Detailed Answers
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Four types of werewolves - ANS -Literal- person actually transforms
-Spiritual- may or may not physically change/ spirit of the wolf
-Demonic- person is possessed
-Medical- mental illness
Katharina Wilson-
the 4 possible origins for the word "vampire," as well as which of the 4 she
identifies as the true origin. - ANS ○ Turkish (uber = witch)
○ Greek (pij = drink)
○ Old Slavic (opiri)
○ Hungarian (vampire)
○ True origin- Old Slavic
Various roots / forms for the word "werewolf"
(English, Greek, and Slavic (Russian, Serbian); the ways some of those words might
intersect with the vampire; the cultural connection between shape-shifting and
the bear in some cultures) - ANS ○ Old English - wer ("man") and wulf ("wolf")
,○ Greek - likos ("wolf") and anthropos ("human")
-Lycanthrope
-e (technical term for werewolves)
○ Serbian - vuk ("wolfn") and dlak a("hair, fur, skin")
○ Vukodlak (slavic term)
○ Vurdalak - shares a connection with vampire (shapeshifter/bloodsucker)
○ Shapeshifting connection between werewolves and bears
-Beowulf (bee-wolf = bear)
-Sami rituals and bear transformation
Who Sts. Cyril and Methodius were and why they are important in many East
European cultures - ANS Christian missionaries. They influenced the conversion to
christianity that occured in between the 9th or 10th century.
Slavic Paganism:
Who Perun, Veles, Jarilo, and Morana were & what they represented; wh" is and
at least one example of it. - ANS - Perun= god of sky, lightning, figure re, hills
(supported upper class), the thunder god; strong man, beard = power, upper class
, - Veles= god of earth, water, cattle, commerce, lowlands
- shapeshifter/ trickster, but not evil, steals Perun's cattle
- Represents the ordinary person, down to earth
- Jarilo= god of spring and life; kidnapped by Vales - raised in the underworld by
Vales, return = spring, reunion=bountiful harvest
- Morana= goddess of winter, rebirth, death, dreams
- Dvoeverie= Dual Belief; coexistence of organized, canonical religion and those
beliefs that have a pre-conversion, pagan character, transition or conversion
-Ex: Veles → St. George
-(cattle, serpents)
-Ex: Jarilo/ Morana → Christ
Vladimir Propp:
-theory of the folktale - ANS Vladimir Propp the man:
-Soviet Scholar
-Aimed to devise science of literature
-Published Morphology of de Folktale in 1928
Vladimir Propp: How many functions? - ANS 31
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