Stock Characters: Bogeymen and Tricksters

Never mistake an historical figure who also shares the name Stepan Bandera with this stock bogeyman actor in Russia’s Disinfolklore. These are bogeymen. These are meant to scare you. Their function is to embed archetypes in our mind and to connect with archetypes we already have, which are deeply implanted through religious and linguistic memes. Only Ruschist state-funded troll farms and beyond redemption victims of Ruschist Disinfolklore use terms like Bandarites.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes into Our Inner Minds

The Shaman-Trickster is one of the most fundamental archetypes in our culture. The Joker in Batman. Even a day of our week is named for the fundamental shaman-trickster in Germanic cultures: Odin, Wodin, Woden. There is this flow between our recognition as being akin to the Class Comic, the person in our office world who deceived us when they tell us a joke. We don’t blame them for it. We allow ourselves to be deceived.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

Disinfolklore operates through a repertoire of stock characters: the Bogeyman (“Bandera,” “Ukrainian Nazi”), the Shaman-Trickster (Druidey Don, Duncey Putin), the Mother/Maiden, the Hero (The Comedian Zelenskyy). Tool 9 maps which archetypes are being invoked and how they function. The “Bandera” in Russian Disinfolklore is not a historical person — it is a two-dimensional bogeyman, as artificial as the Big Bad Wolf.

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