Mythology and Folklore

      One lazy afternoon, Spencer Rattler and Drake Stoops were sitting on campus at OU with nothing to do. Drake was reading the football playbook and Spencer was bored just watching the squirrels run by. Out of nowhere, Spencer sees Boomer and Sooner run by them and up the South Oval. They were looking at their wristwatches saying that they were going to be late. Spencer was confused because usually, they don't talk. Drake had his head so deep in the playbook that he didn't even notice them run by. What might they have to be late for? He decides to get up and follow them. They run and jump inside a hole at the top of the South Oval outside of the Bizzell Memorial Library. With nothing better to do that day, he decides to take a leap of faith (literally) and follow them in.      Spencer begins to fall for what seems like forever. It's mostly dark, but he is able to make out what objects are falling around him. He sees football gear, jerseys, locker room snacks, and even si

 there was a table in front of the house with the hatter and the hare, and the dormouse was resting on a cushion  all 3 were at one end of the table so alice sat down at the other end  alice started arguing with the hare and the hatter about various things  she told the hatter it was weird that his watch didn't say the time, and he said it was because it stays the same time for so long  alice could not figure out the riddle that the hare asked her so she told him to do something better with his time  he said that time would do anything with the clock if they asked, like freeze or speed up time  time had to stop changing the clock because the queen ordered his execution  they grew tired of talking about the time so they had the dormouse tell them a story  alice kept interrupting the dormouse's story  they were being rude so she left and came across a tree with a door  it brought her back to the original room and she unlocked the door and went into the garden in the garden there

 alice was sitting on the riverbank bored with her sister one day  a rabbit ran by saying it was going to be late the rabbit went down a rabbit hole and she followed it, falling down a tunnel  she fell very slowly and passed many objects on her way down she fell upon a pile of leaves and got up, seeing the rabbit sprint down another tunnel and going after it  she came upon a bunch of locked doors and then a tiny key that opened a tiny door she couldn't fit through the tiny door and when she turned around there was a drink that turned her very small she tried to go through the door but forgot the key on the table and couldn't reach it  there was a thing with cake on the floor that she ate and expected to change size, but she didnt she grew to nine feet tall and couldn't find anything else to eat so she could shrink when she was tall she saw a catepillar on top of a mushroom smoking hookah that asked her who she was and she said she didn't know  he had an attitude with he

  A Knight's Take on King Arthur Today is the day of the tournament. I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to be crowned the King- after all, everybody knows I'm the best knight we have. I get that nobody was able to pull the sword from the stone, so they're making us do this, but I bet I could if I tried. In walks Arthur, wait- did I just see him with the sword from the stone? There's no way. Someone must have pulled it for him. If I, a noble knight, can't pull it, there's no way that low life did. I won't accept it.  The Moral of the Story That loser just got the sword. King Arthur and the sword Source:  Biography.com Author's Note This story was based on the tale of King Arthur and the sword! Arthur was a nobody in his village who was able to pull the sword from the stone, which was a power that only a king could do. They were trying to decide who would become the new king by a joust until Arthur was able to pull the sword. Nobody believed it, but

 sir galahad went four days with no adventure until he came across a white abbey he went in the abbey and knights took him in and led him to a chamber where they told him that there was a shield which if you put it around your neck you would be dead on 3 days or find mischief  another knight bore it first and then died in a battle with another knight the knight gave the shield to a squire and said that only sir galahad could bear it  galahad bore the shield and went to a cemetery and lifted a stone, where there was a body and a bad smoke. he took a body out of the grave since he was not a Christian  he healed wounds and chased away bad knights and set free maidens sir lancelot came across a stone cross and a chapel which had an altar in it  he could not enter so he went to sleep  he had a dream that two palfreys came across a sick knight and he begged them to heal him the holy grail appeared and he prayed to it and it healed him of his sins the knight prophesized when he woke up that s

in britian, after uther pendragon died, every knight wanted to be king  the country became worse and worse and filled with evil merlin the magician went to the archbishop of Canterbury and agreed that the lords and gentlemen of britian would meet at the great church on Christmas day  at the church there was a large sword that said whoever pulled it out of the stone would be king  many people tried but were not able to pull it from the stone, so they had a tournament on new years day  sir kay, ector, and Arthur arrived to the tournament but forgot his sword so arthur went to get it  when he got to the house it was locked, so he went to the sword in the stone to pull it and gave it to sir kay  arthur told sir ector he pulled it so he was called the rightful king  his father said he was the son of uther pendragon and he was meant to be king  the people were reluctant to accept him since he was a common man, but every time they tried to contest it, he was the only one who could pull it he

  monkey king in a nutshell There once was a monkey who became increasingly powerful. Instead of using his power for good, he used it to take advantage of other people. He began to challenge gods and other immortal beings, paying no attention to the repercussions. He drank potions to make himself immortal and made the whole race of apes immortal too. Eventually, after waging wars and causing destruction, he became more powerful than everyone but god, so god punished him by making him a slave. He had to walk to each end of the earth doing chores, and after that, never caused trouble for anyone. moral of the money king don't be arrogant, you'll be humbled.  Ape King  Source:  DeviantArt Author's Note The initial story has an ape made of stone that rules over the land until he wants to become immortal. He goes and trains to become immortal under a master, and once he does, he shares the secrets and is exiled. He then becomes increasingly more violent and powerful, and the othe

      A group of 5 friends was leaving a class one day and all decided that they were hungry for lunch. They wanted to eat lunch on campus together in the South Oval, but nobody could pick the same place to eat. Everyone settled on picking their own restaurant and meeting each other after.          Daniel asked his friend Lexi where she was going to eat, and she told him that she was going to go to Chick-Fil-A in the Couch Cafeteria. Lexi left to get her Chick-Fil-A so the rest of them kept deliberating.  Daniel then asked Katie what she wanted. Katie thought that Einstein's Bagels sounded good, so she went to get that while the other three stayed to choose. After Katie left, Daniel asked Jake what he was going to eat. Jake had been craving University Club in the Union all morning, but that's a sit-down restaurant, so he decided to just settle on a Couch Express grilled cheese. After all, it is one of the finest meals on campus. Jack headed to Couch Tower to grab his food, so t

  Rabbit and Panther a rabbit wanted to build a lodge so that people would think he's a great medicine man  rabbit went to the top of a hill and build a wigwam and began to dance panther found rabbit's trail and hid to watch him and his wife rabbit sang a song that said he would never be caught by panther and went to hunt panther waited for him to return and sprung on him and ate him  Why Deer Never Eat Men rabbit asked bear what he wanted for food and he said acorns and fruit rabbit asked fish hawk what he wanted and he said the sucker, so he dove above the river and ate him  rabbit asked wolf what he wanted and he said deer, so he chased him with his robe on and could not catch him, but when he took it off he caught him and ate him  deer wanted to eat indians but they were too powerful, so he took his ribs and made them look like tusks. the indian still caught and ate him  since he was caught, the rabbit said they could only live on grass and twigs  The Hare and the Lynx a ha

  The Earth Maker when the earth maker became conscious, he cried because he saw nothing  he took some of the substance he was sitting on and made earth, but it was loud and bare  he made a man and called it tortoise, then made two legged walkers  he sent tortoise to protect the world from evil spirits, but tortoise came to earth and made war so he took him back  next the earth maker sent hare, and the hare made the two legged walkers immortal the hare thought his grandmother was evil, and she heard him thinking that  they got up and started to go around the earth, and hare's grandmother told him not to look back  he did so anyway, and everything caved in  they went to the edge of the fire that surrounds earth  Creation the creator initially created the earth to be underwater and created fish first he realized he had no land for humans, so he pulled up some of the earth out of the water by the crawfish he created humans, called the Chitimachas the humans caused trouble, so he creat