Entry 9, Analyzing a Folk Tale

  Folk tales are very common in ancient stories. Many ancient stories always told how something works and why something is the way it is today. I believe especially the ancient Greeks have many different types of folk tales. I once heard this folk tale about why people weep at things when they get sad. It was about an Eskimo family and the dad tries to hunt for seals. He never and couldn't ever catch a seal, as each seal slips away, he began to feel water drops down his cheeks. He felt the strange feeling and burst into tears. The wife and the son came looking for the man, and they heard the story and all began to start crying. That is when people first started to weep for something they really care about. The story of Coyote kills a Giant was about why a wood tick is flat. It was about how everyone was trapped inside the Giants stomach and as the Coyote was cutting his heart to try to kill him, they all ran out when the giant took his last breath. Coyote grabbed the wood tick and he came out of the tiny holes of his mouth. That is why the wood ticks are flat. I personally do not enjoy folk tales. I find it boring, and just absolutely ridiculous when there are some strange origin of certain things.