“Like all sustained mass movements, pilgrimages tend to accrete rich superstructures of legend, myth, folklore, and literature. Legend may be defined as the corpus or written accounts of the marvels and miracles connected with the genesis and development of a pilgrimage system; myth, as the systematic oral tradition concerning these events, and folklore, as the assemblage of unsystematized tales and yarns about happenings of an unusual sort along the pilgrimage way and about its saints”. This quote stood out to me because of it tells how pilgrimage creates stories, myths, tall tales and legends that we might know about today. These stories were probably made to pass the time on the long walks on the trails. The legends could be described as how the pilgrimage system started. Myth can be described as fictitious stories told by mouth that have been passed down from person to person.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Image & Pilgrimage in Christian Culture 1
“Like all sustained mass movements, pilgrimages tend to accrete rich superstructures of legend, myth, folklore, and literature. Legend may be defined as the corpus or written accounts of the marvels and miracles connected with the genesis and development of a pilgrimage system; myth, as the systematic oral tradition concerning these events, and folklore, as the assemblage of unsystematized tales and yarns about happenings of an unusual sort along the pilgrimage way and about its saints”. This quote stood out to me because of it tells how pilgrimage creates stories, myths, tall tales and legends that we might know about today. These stories were probably made to pass the time on the long walks on the trails. The legends could be described as how the pilgrimage system started. Myth can be described as fictitious stories told by mouth that have been passed down from person to person.
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