• Archetypes are universal symbols that are often expressed through images, colors, numbers, and shapes.

• Archetypal Images• Water: birth-death-resurrection; purification and redemption• Sun: creative energy• Colors: Red (blood, sacrifice), Green (growth), Black (death, darkness)• Shapes: Circle (wholeness, unity), Oval (the mystery of life)• Numbers 3 (light, spiritual awareness of unity), 4 (life cycle, seasons), 7

(most potent of all symbolic numbers, signifying the union of three and four, the completion of a cycle, perfect order)

• Creation: perhaps the most fundamental of all archetypal motifs--virtually every mythology is built on some account of how the cosmos, nature, and humankind were brought into existence by some supernatural Being or beings.

• Immortality: the state of perfect, timeless bliss enjoyed by man and woman before their tragic Fall into corruption and mortality.

• Hero Archetypes• The quest: the hero undertakes some long journey during which he or she

must perform impossible tasks• Initiation: the hero undergoes a series of excruciating ordeals in passing

from ignorance and immaturity to social and spiritual adulthood• The sacrificial scapegoat: the hero, with whom the welfare of the tribe or

nation is identified, must die to atone for the people's sins and restore the land to fruitfulness.

• a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another, an evil that has been invoked upon one.

• Curses have been practiced throughout many cultures. • Most universal method of laying on a curse is by effigy, which is an image or

representation of the victim.• Practices of curses (theory behind the harming or destroying an effigy) are

common in ancient India, Europe, Persia, Africa and Egypt. The theory behind the harming or destroying an effigy

HISTORY OF CURSES• Like blessings, curses have universally been bought and sold

throughout the centuries. With the exclusion of the neo-Pagan Witches, witches and sorcerers throughout history have performed both blessings and curses as a service to others because both are calling upon supernatural powers to effect a change.

• The earliest curses can be found in the bible. Most believers understand how the sins of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden brought about a curse upon humanity and the world in which they lived. The Lord pronounced specific curses that were related to the serpent, the woman and the man.

VARIATIONS OF CURSES• Curse of God• Curse of Man• Self-inflicted curse• Generation/Inherited Curse• Curse of Law

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EXAMPLES IN MYTHICAL LITERATURE

• A seasonal myth represents a cycle of human like patterned after the succession of the seasons. Life is viewed as a pattern of birth.

Winter: Death Spring: Youth

Summer: Growth Fall: Maturity

• Lord of the Rings• Twilight• The Odyssey

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EXAMPLES IN TRADITIONAL LITERATURE

• Folktale: stories passed down through oral storytelling and from generation to generation.

• Cinderella• The Ugly Duckling• Jack and the Bean Stalk

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EXAMPLES IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE• Hamlet• To kill a Mockingbird• Chronicles of Narnia• The Three Musketeers • Macbeth

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EXAMPLES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE• Harry Potter• Snow White and the Huntsmen• Little Mermaid• The Tooth fairy

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EXAMPLES IN CONTEMPORARY FILM

• Little Mermaid• Shrek• Beauty and the Beast• Sleeping Beauty• Ella Enchanted• The Tooth Fairy

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WORKS CITED

http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/c-guerin.html

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/curses.html