Myth and Folklore

I decided to do my project over some nursery rhymes.  I choose a few different nursery rhymes after looking through The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright at Gutenberg .  It had so many different ones to choose from, I started out by picking a few favorites until I realized they all had something in common: the moon! I think I will use the nursery rhymes as inspiration for a series of stories about the man in the moon.  He could even be the narrator, maybe having once been a great wizard who made his home in the sky.  I definitely have a lot of good ideas going!  The following are the three nursery rhymes I chose. THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE     Hey, diddle, diddle!     The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon;     The little dog laughed     To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. OLD WOMAN, OLD WOMAN There was an old woman to...

I am interested in Native American stories because I am Cherokee and Creek.  Although I am not an active member of my tribal community, my ancestry is still important to me.  I like reading different Native American stories and learning about the traditions of different tribes.  I recently took a Native American Introduction course and it really broadened my view.   A source I can use is Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson available at Google books and an audio at LibriVox . Nursery Rhymes are simply fun.  Some of the rhymes are extremely creative, spurring on my own creative thinking, which will be helpful if I choose this topic for my project.  I also find picking this topic slightly ironic, because as kids my friends used to call me Mother Goose since I was always checking on everyone when we played.   The source that really interested me is The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright.   It is at...