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Mythology and Folklore
Traditional stories, myths, and folk beliefs.
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- How does local Flores folklore about the Ebu Gogo relate to the fossil discovery?
- What do the ritual scenes depicted on ancient Maya ceramics reveal about how elites consumed psychoactive substances?
- What is the premise of Lagerkvist's novel Barabbas and why did it likely clinch his Nobel Prize?
- Why was kuru, the disease Gajdusek studied among the Fore people, transmitted through the ritual consumption of the dead?
- Why would administering a substance rectally have been preferable to drinking it, pharmacologically speaking?