Archive for the 'folklore' Category

I actually have heard of the "gyascutus" which "has legs of unequal length so that it can walk easily on hillsides" though I think it might go by other names.

Seems to jibe with Barthes' ideas about the establishment of myth-structure in the modern era - that repetition on a mass scale perpetuates belief until that belief is instantiated unconsciously and no longer even recognized as such.