Folks of All Mythology

    Hi everyone! My name is Natalie, or Snail Mail Riot, and I run this blog for my Mythology and Folklore class.      I'm currently in my last semester as a student at the University of Oklahoma. I'm majoring in professional writing and minoring in history. My higher education journey has been pretty wild. During my first semester of college, I attended Oklahoma Baptist University. I chose this university because of its creative writing major and proximity to home. Unfortunately, OBU wasn't a good fit for me.     The next three semesters I spent attending St. Gregory's University. This one I chose because I swung to the opposite end of the spectrum. I had chosen OBU solely for its academics. SGU I chose for its life and found I fit in much better there, even though I wasn't happy with being relegated to an English degree instead of a writing one I wanted.     This time, when I changed universities, it wasn't by choice. In the fall of 2018, SGU made the announce

      Stories, in all mediums, are a special kind of art, a special kind of tender magic that can bring out forgotten memories and ignored feelings and the strength to be brave. And this amazing magical art is intrinsically human. It is so fundamentally ours! We have been creating and telling stories for as long as we could communicate with each other in any meaningful way.      How wonderful it is we get to create and share and enjoy our own magic of which there are no limits!      I was able to read many stories previous students of the Mythology and Folklore course have written. I was so lucky to be able to read such wonderful, diverse works and all for free!     Here are my three favorite storybooks written by previous students. 1. Chronicles of Hades: Adventures in the Underworld Cerberus with the Gluttons in Dante's Third Circle of Hell . William Blake. Source:  Cerberus - Wikipedia      Chronicles of Hades  was one of the first storybooks I read. (You can read it here !) I c