Monday, 23 July 2012
Earliest Records?
The earliest surviving collections of supernatural tales were written from the 3rd century through the 6th A.D. These collections are crude, compared to later accounts, and serve simply to record miraculous occurances that have been witnessed or told of to the writer. The tales deal with immortals, local gods, ghosts, and animal spirits, characters and situations that would be returned to again and again throughout the development of supernatural literature in China.
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Sonia, maybe rather than trying to find the cultural origins of the myth you may have to settle for just exploring the different views and the arguments on which they are based. If you have an opinion that's fine but it can be unrealisitic to come up with a definitive position on something which fosters debate.
ReplyDeleteSonia you need to make some progress on your research
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