Myths and legends are stories told orally through the ages. Exchanging real and historical events with allegorical events. Legends and myths often try to explain mysterious or supernatural events. Myths always have a strong symbolic artifact. Ancient peoples could not explain the phenomena of nature through scientific explanations, mainly because of the fact that science was not as advanced as it is today, there was no technology for new discoveries and myths were created with the purpose of making sense of the events of the world.
The myths also served as a way to pass on knowledge and alert people about dangers or defects and qualities of the human being. Gods, heroes and supernatural characters mix with facts of reality to give meaning to life and the world. Many legends were lost over time, the magic of tales and myths that packed old generations and poetic traditions in our country.
Our folklore is dying, the fables and tales that took us to the imaginary world through literature or stories told in order to a universe of inner learning. The magic of the tales was consumed over time and at home the parents no longer tell legends such as, for example, the one about the saci Pererê, Iara, Corpo-seco, Boitatá, among countless other folkloric legends. In many cities, such tales still persist as a cultural and very important factor in the wealth of our country, today devastated by cultures technological, among so many that are reduced to the modernity of a consumerist world and no longer with the brightness of reading or stories told by parents or grandparents.
This culture of Brazilian folklore makes the mind of the listener or reader awake, taking lessons for everyday life. They are murdering such beautiful things that make human beings self-analytic, contemplate their environment and travel about forcing the clearest imagination necessary to get emotional or smile in the face of difficulties everyday.
On the whole of what we can call the folklore of a land; Paralend food, dances, clothing and much more, I ask: How many children of the current generation know some song of our rich and vast history of Brazilian legends. Time resists the ancients who still remember the tales and still make themselves bewitched by them. But our children, future generations of a country flooded with different customs and cultures.
The true culture dies little by little, lost in the shackles of time over the big cities. The myth stands the test of time, otherwise it would not be a myth. But how to rescue this beauty? Passing this broad culture orally as it was done in the past, as it is done in some distant places in Brazil.
Folklore is the culture of a people, a country, a civilization. These fables are the historical essence and cultural aggrandizement, the development of the intellect of the country's future citizens. If the country continues to live in cultural marginality, perhaps what no one ever imagined will happen; The murder of myth, the murder of the interior of an entire civilization and its tradition, the murder of fantasy and tales that once caused fear to be questioned or spread love stories.
The legends sound like a fantasy learning indeed, but beyond their magic makes the reader sail through questionable seas of imagination and defeat all deficiency of anticultural still eminent in our country today, triggered by the lack of opportunity and disinterest through the morbid wings of daily difficulties.
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By Letícia de Castro
Columnist Brazil School
Folklore - Brazil School
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