Away with the fairies: how old is human oral culture?
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https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/the_mouth.3125Abstract
This essay is intended to suggest that oral cultures show deep connections so specific that it is hard imagine they are coincidence or convergence. If so, then they can provide us with important insights into the out- look of these early modern humans. Folklore is a much-despised genre in modern academia. It is considered antiquarian, sentimental and only suitable for mining by Disney films, thus hardly a serious academic discipline. Folklore narratives tend to be local, low-circulation publications often unaccompanied by analysis and often aimed at younger readers. However, considered more carefully in comparison with synchronic ethnographic data, they points to connections hard to explain without appealing to deep time hypotheses.
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