[UA] A Silly Update

[Jonathan]

She still does Supernatural, but the graduate level
course is called Folk Belief.  

In general, folklorists are good GMCs, as their whole
schtick is to find some weird little group of people
and document the hell out of them. Sort of a
"Sleepers' Worst Nightmare!" kind of thing. Or,
sleepers' bad dream, at any rate.

Of particular interest for those who might want to do
a bit of a historical campaign--look into Zora Neale
Hurston.  She was involved with the Harlem
Renaissance, was an author (most famous for Their Eyes
Were Watching God), and was also a folklorist.  In
addition to that, she was a voodoo initiate.  

If you squint and read Their Eyes Were Watching God,
you could read it as a chronicle of a woman who ends
up wrecking a True King and then following the avatar
path of The Fool.

But what makes her really interesting is that she
wrote an autobiography which was at least partly
fictional (and all of her fiction is partly
autobiographical) and she misrepresented her age by 10
years for her entire life.  I.e. She turned up as an
18 year old when she was really 28, and no one knows
what she was doing for those lost ten years!

Jonathan

--- Michael d'Arcy <podagricus at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > If I may suggest a replacement, you could change
> the
> > UCLA scholar to a graduate student in the Folk
> Studies
> > Department at Western Kentucky University.  Rather
> > than writing a dissertation, they'd be writing a
> > thesis, but the song more or less remains the
> same.
> 
> 
> It could work. Dr
>
Brady<http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/pages06/faculty_detail.php?id=4>
> even
> has a Supernatural Folklore course that's been
> running for years (at least,
> I can recall it from the early 90s, and it's still
> listed on her page). And
> you can't beat the location—stuck in the Bible Belt,
> but with occultists and
> random nuts galore. More or less everyone's crazy in
> the Green.
> 
> ----
> "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice
> remarked.
> "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all
> mad here."
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