Tangherlini’s Three Threat Categories

“Interaction with the Other falls into three broad categories in the contemporary legend tradition… [1] Sexual contact with the Other, including kidnapping and threats to the fertility of the Inner Realm; [2] The Other’s attempts to disrupt the food of the Inner Realm; and [3] Narratives in which the Other attempts to maim, hurt, or kill an immediate threat to the individual and the social order. In each category, communal integrity and survival is threatened from the Outside…”

Source: Disinfolklore (main framework piece)

The verbatim Tangherlini quotation providing the folkloristic evidence for the three-threat model. This is the scholarly foundation for Tool 4.

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