Kat's Myth-Folklore 2018 Blog

I think I have narrowed my topic down to horses (or horse-hybrids like centaurs) in mythology.  I'm definitely going to use Harry Potter as a way to tell my stories for this.  This was something I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do when the course first started, but I'm actually really excited about it now after the professor has helped guide me a bit. One of the stories I have chosen is the story of Chiron  in "The Wise Centaur" from Greek mythology.  I think it will be useful in my topic because centaurs definitely fit in with the Harry Potter world as well as mythology, and there is enough of the story to make good use of it. I found another story  helping explain more of the story of Chiron and also the history of centaurs a bit further. (Centaur photo from Greek Mythology:  the Story of Centaurs ) I have this story about the " Fortification of Asgard " which tells of how Sleipnir came to be in Norse mythology, but I'm not sure...

So I seem to have gotten confused about how this week is going to work.  But here are the topics I'm considering for my final project. Grimm Brothers:  Honestly I wasn't thinking of that at first but when I went searching for a story for a previous post, I came up with one that will work well.  So I'm not opposed to digging into some of their other stories to help with my topic.  Here's the story I used in one of my other posts, The Fox & the Horse . Horses:  Because I'm married to a horse trainer and been horse crazy since I was little, I've read tons of horse books.  I found quite the list of horses in mythology on Wikipedia . Harry Potter:  I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan, I'll make no apologies for that.  And so much of the Harry Potter world has basis in mythology and folklore.  Many of the creatures definitely had their basis in mythology.  Here's a few links on that: The Myths and Folktales behind Harry Potter Hidden Myths...