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emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. Fear
can be caused by a variety of things. However, fear is not
always caused by solid danger, that is, it is possible to
provoke fear in a person through other methods than through
putting the person in direct danger. It is possible for a
person to fear something that may not exist all together.
Fear is indeed a part of human nature. It can neither be
ignored all together or altered. Fear is often instilled
into people by the use of stories or folklore. Many of the
folktales and urban legends that surround us today were
conceived to instill fear. Stories of murders, death, and
the unexplained have all become entangled in the realm of
Folklore may often times have a basis in truth, and, in
many cases, may also be totally fiction based. They
(folktales) are often created to give an explanation to the
things in life that are unexplainable. And, things that
people do not have an understanding of, or cannot explain
through science, or math often times cause fear. This fear
may become widespread or even cause mass hysteria. But, it
is from the fear that folktales/folklore a
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could fins only his hat and his horse, Gunpowder. Folktales may often times be totally
fictional. In a song by the band
Spinal Tap, suitably named “Stonehenge” the band goes into a
more evil, sinister, devil-related origin of the stones and
why they exist. By passing
them on to others they are giving the fear to them also. The media has a
major hand in that. Man learns very specific examples
of fear many ways. ISBN, New York, 1997
Judson, Katherine Berry. People began to think that ‘monsters’ lived
inside of the stones and a general hysteria of fear erupted
because of these wild thoughts. Everything from newspapers, to authors,
and poets can change peoples views on ‘mysterious’ places. org/wgbh/nova/easter/explore/) This is one
of the mysteries surrounding the island. It is often told to young children.
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