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Dear Colleagues: Mogg wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: mandrake [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:28 AM >Subject: Re: satanic_calendar ? >Caroline Tully et al >With reference to naivety - take a look at Torey Hayden's "Ghost Girl" - >which repeats many of the same myths and >she is a still very much an internationally reknowned child psychologist?? As this is, first and foremost, a scholarly list, can we agree to consistently employ appropriately academic, rather than popular, terminology in our discussions? However we are accustomed to use the term "myth" in popular speech, in a forum such as this it should *never* be used as a synonym for "falsehood," as the last 75 years or so of folkloristic and anthropological scholarship should attest. Neither should it be used interchangeably with terms like "contemporary legend," "rumor," or "belief" all of which are more appropriate for the phenomenon being discussed here. Thanks, Stephen Wehmeyer, Ph.D. Anthropology Department California State U., Northridge [log in to unmask]