Myth and Folklore: Final

What are creepy pastas?

Who is the legendary mother of all Japanese emperors?

Where is the cave where humans were created, according to Aztec myth?

Marco has been invited by his friends to participate in a snipe hunt. What will likely happen if he agrees?

The concept of “men in black” refers most to urban legends of which category?

The Twin Caves in Israel is notable for being believed to be the location Jesus was buried during death and ressurection

What did the Aztecs sacrifice for Huizilopochtli?

In Christian mythology, which bird is most directly contrasted with the raven?

What sort of beat was the Kraken believed to be

What is an example of something that is both a morpheme and a phoneme?

Which cryptid was most likely inspired by animals infected with a tumor-causing virus

The I Ching is a book describing the powers of nature. How are the eight major powers represented?

Which mountains entire top is considered a sacred sight today?

Based on the Nou-onago and harionago of Japanese folklore, what does “onago” indicate in the language?

Outside of Christian mythology, what is the most common role played by serpents in world myths?

What kind of animal is Kutcher/Kutcher and some indigenous tribes of Northern Asia?

What cryptid is believed to be some sort of sea serpent

How did many European cultures interpret the existence of volcanoes?

What lost continent or city was originally formulated as a scientific theory, debunked with continental drift

Where is the Bermuda Triangle located?

What location is sometimes called “the Suicide Forest”

A folklorist is compiling stories about Aztecs. Which should be worried about?

Yurt is developing a new cartoon inspired by Japanese folklore. What animal would make the least sense as a shapeshifter

Which broad geographic term most accurately describes the location of Mesopotamia

Jusaidsm, Christianity, and Islam are all grouped into which religions class (based on their shared “father”)

What is one of the major powers represented in the I Ching

What is significant about the Flores Man discovered in 2004

What type of tree is Yggdrasil

What is an example of a culture whose World Tree myth places that tree as the way the first people entered the world

What form did center’s offer worship take for the Aztecs

Medusa was originally a human, but was made into a gorgon in Greek Myth. What would Alexander Eliot consider this story?

What real world concern led to the urban legend warning people not to flash their lights at cars with their headlights

What is an example of an urban legend commonly used in dares (to repeat a “summoning” ritual)?

In the I Ching, what trait is associated with the Mountain?

In folklorist studies, what perspective was most popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

According to Dante, which sin would lead to an afterlife as a living tree, immobile but forever fed upon by harpies

What I s described by the Norse kenning “raven harvest”

What is the name of the most famous surviving Greek temple dedicated to Athena

Which goddess was believed to live in Mt. Fuji

Although folktales are fiction, they often have elements of truth. Enough that they can provide data about cryptids

What is one structural explanation for why modern Americans don’t tell young children about bogeymen who will steal them

Which society utilized a logo-syllabic writing script?

What real city was believed to be legendary but was later discovered to be a real city>?

A particularist would argue that the stories of Hercules, Aladdin, and Thor are essentially all the same

Who would the Greeks MOST likely have prayed to in order to prevent an earthquake

What type of tree is the Ashvattha, the Tree of Eternal Life in Hindu mythology

Which feature would be MOST expected to be found in an urban legend?

What is the term for Japanese folklore studies?

Which culture is MOST accurate,u described as the cradle of western civilization

What in the Anglicized term for the ritual battles the Aztecs called xochiyaoyotl?

Which cultures pantheon seems least interested in mankind

What natural phenomenon was the Mesoamerican ball game ullamaliztli designed to represent

What seminal tale did Dr. Jamie Terhrani trace, finding 35 different versions and a common ancestor over 2,600 years old

What was the main role of the “tree” mytheme in Christian mythology

The first two beings in Greek myth were chaos and nyx

What would make the BEST content for an urban ,emend shared by a teenager today?

What cryptid is also known as the goat-sucker

Which god was at the top of the Aztec hierarchy

The Hindu religion contains texts that speak of over 300 million gods?

Which country’s explorers or colonists heralded the end of the Aztec empire?

Which Mesopotamia god or goddess is MOST associated with pure villainy and evil in modern culture

The Norse and Egyptian religions are classified as which type?

In Australian lore, what crime resulted in humans having many languages

In estate sale, archeologist finds image of pyramid with serpent head carvings on flat area, which civilization?

What did the Greeks believe caused volcanic eruptions?

What sort fo winds would the Greek god Boreas have been most associated with?

What notable history book included fairy tales and legends as well as more typical history

What is believed to be the most likely reasons that the number thirteen is considered to be unlucky in America

How are Odin and Thor related?

Who is the creator foster in Aztec mythology, representing all things

From where did anthropologists learn much about ancient Egyptian myths?

What is the MOST important fact about the Sumerian King List

The Bermuda Triangle is unusually deadly considering how few ships cross it, but is explained by modern science

What super power did Hades, lord of the dead, have in Greek myth?

What is the primary difference between comparative religion and comparative mythology?

Why do people believe in superstitions?

Historical astrology can help predict and explain real-world astronomy

Buddhists share the story of Buddha, a religious leader. What would Alexander Eliot consider these stories?

Who is considered the most important god of the Egyptian pantheon, responsible for creation?

What was the universe created from according from according to Aztec myth

What is an example of an urban legend that inspired real-world events?

Egyptian pyramids doubled as temples where people worshipped the various gods and goddesses

Which modern practice is most similar to the concept of ethnogenesis?

In Ancient Greek language, what would the term hecaton have meant?

What are the three imperial regalia of imperial japan?

What are logographic writing scripts based on (as in, what is the building block of written language)

The end of the world in Norse mythology is described by a poem, Voluspa

What cryptid is said to be local to the Gobi Desert?

Religious ceremonies of the Greeks took place on top of the temples?

For which culture is the diversity of languages a gift from the gods?

What pair of myths explain similar elements of the world?

Why is the coelacanth important in zoology

What did the three treasures of Japanese empowers represent?