And doesn't this tie in well with John Hudswell's piece about St Thomas in
India ?
BMC
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From: Abigail Ann Young <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: patron saints - the rise of characteristic attributes
> I think this was actually earlier (between the wars). It was Millman Perry
as I
> recall who first drew the attention of classical scholars to this
phenomenon in
> eastern Europe, and in his mind they represented cultural analogues for
Homer and
> possible parallels for the composition and pre-written transmission of the
Homeric
> poems. There was a semi-popular book on the topic (again I am dredging
from my lost
> youth in Classics (-;) called _Tellers of Tales_ or _Teller of Tales_,
something like
> that; the author's name was Lord, I think, but not Walter!
[snip]
> Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >
> > "B.M.COOK" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >....The intelligent illiterate usually have an excellent and accurate
memory
> > for aural input.
> >
> > wasn't there something about some folklorists who went to some remote
region
> > of Montenegro or Albania (in the '50's?) and found some local
> > bards who went around reciting homeric-length poems from memory?
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