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Re: Narnia or some kind of Jewish folktale
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 07:29:18 GMT
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Warning: this message is on-topic. Bull-beggars?
Heh heh. I quote more: "Reginald Scot mentions fairies (and nymphs) among
bugbears used to frighten children: 'Our mothers' maids have so terrified us
with bull-beggars*, spirits, witches, urchins, elves, hags, fairies, satyrs,
pans, faunes, sylens, tritons, centaurs, dwarfs, giants, nymphes, Incubus, Robin
good fellow, the spoom, the man in the oke, the fire-drake, the puckle, Tom
Thumbe, Tom tumbler boneles, and such other bugs.'** ... Scot's list shows
that when we are asking what furniture our ancestor's minds contained and how
they felt about it--always with a view to the better understanding of what they
wrote--the question of origins is not very relevant."
*bull-beggars = bogies.
**_Discouerie of Witchcraft_ (1584), VII, XV.
I think Lewis' point is that the mythical creatures' origins get lost but they
still do well in new stories.
This little-known book (Discarded Image) is packed with such fascinating arcana.
I really like that expression about furniture.
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| Warning: this message is on-topic. (...) I think it is a safe guess that one of Jack's models for Narnia was the fantasy novel _Lilith_ by George MacDonald. It too is remotely based on that Jewish folktale about Adam's other wife. I forget which (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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