The Scholarly Foundations

I derived Tool 4 — these three defining archetypal identities immanent in items of Disinfolklore — from a fusion of Dumézil’s three socio-religious archetypes that underpin Indo-European language speakers’ cognitive structures (sovereignty, security and/or prosperity/fertility) read in conjunction with Tangerlini’s three archetypal structures in the contemporary Danish legend-telling tradition: “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… In each category, communal integrity and survival is threatened from the Outside…”

Source: Book Proposal (May 2025)

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