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Common Threads: Centuries Of Folklore Told Through Tapestry, Audrey Wheelock
Common Threads: Centuries Of Folklore Told Through Tapestry, Audrey Wheelock
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project contains two components: a research element and an artistic component. The research element examines how folklore and mythology stories evolve over time. As a deep dive of this phenomena, several versions of the folkloric story the Erlking are explored and compared. The basic story of the Erlking is a fae creature or malevolent elf luring humans into the forest and killing or trapping them. Similar themes and story elements across versions are discussed, as well as their implications for the larger narrative surrounding the Erlking. Particular emphasis is given to Goethe's 1782 poem version of Der Erlkonig and …