2008-06-16

x_los: (Default)
2008-06-16 09:54 am

Myth!Halp

Damn: you know those myths/folk-tales with Voice Stealers? Like the things that take your cleverness in a sort of Anansi sense--your silver tongue, the sound and the phraseology--like start by repeating and then just take the voice and leave you without one? I can't FIND any of those stories, and yet I KNOW I've heard of them!

Midnight made me think of that whole thing, and I'm almost certain it must have an entry on the Aarne-Thomspson classification system, I just can't find the damn thing!

Augh! Can anyone help me out/back me up here? Even just 'you're not crazy, I vaguely remember that too!' would be good.
x_los: (Blue Willow Teapot)
2008-06-16 09:54 am

Myth!Halp

Damn: you know those myths/folk-tales with Voice Stealers? Like the things that take your cleverness in a sort of Anansi sense--your silver tongue, the sound and the phraseology--like start by repeating and then just take the voice and leave you without one? I can't FIND any of those stories, and yet I KNOW I've heard of them!

Midnight made me think of that whole thing, and I'm almost certain it must have an entry on the Aarne-Thomspson classification system, I just can't find the damn thing!

Augh! Can anyone help me out/back me up here? Even just 'you're not crazy, I vaguely remember that too!' would be good.