Folklore and Fact: Mystical Artifacts Week 2 [Thurs/2nd Period]

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Upon entering the classroom today students would find Sakura sitting calmly at the yellow table in the center of the room, watching a slideshow playing out on the three display screens on the front wall. The slides contained such images as a genie's oil lamp, a pumpkin-turned-stagecoach (Sakura's jaw tightened ever so slightly at that), a sword in a stone, and a mirror that seemed to be showing images from an entirely different locale.

Sakura waited until everyone had arrived and then let the slideshow play through again. "Most of you should recognize at least a few of the images shown here," she said. "They're all prominent features of folk literature in Earth cultures. Last week I asked you all to bring in a story from your own culture that features an object or artifact that might fit into the category we're studying. I'd like each of you to share the story you chose. It doesn't have to be long; just tell us the basic idea, and what object in the story might be a Precious artifact. Please discuss this among yourselves and compare stories from your own cultures that might be similar. If any of you are in Professor Aziraphale's class on fairy tales, feel free to share anything you might have read there that is relevant here."

She paused. "Some tales from folklore and literature can be found in varying forms around the world; the story of the great flood, for example, can be found in numerous cultures. This tends to indicate that there is an increased likelihood of a true Precious artifact behind its origin, although in the case of the deluge we've yet to determine what that might be. Now please, share your stories."

[OOC: Class Info and Roster. I'll ping in as I can, but I've got plotty obligations today as well so talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. The Prince of Tides was about neither a prince nor tides. Discuss. OCD is up!]

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Re: Discussion [FiF, Week 2]

[dark_slippy_thing]

"The only story from my culture is the one that the Gods teacher thinks I'm 'special' for sharing in his class," Valentine muttered before he piped up to share his. "It's a story about some girl who puts a charm to her face and saw the twin cities reflected in it, and then created them out of a blank sheet of void while sitting on the manky carpet. Then she put the charm under the queen's sign, or something like that." He grinned, tempted to say that the artifact was the carpet, but he wasn't really that stupid. "I'm going out on a limb and saying that the artifact is the charm, but nobody really knows what the charm itself was."