The Scholarly Foundation

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 Tangherlini’s three archetypal structures in the contemporary Danish legend-telling tradition.

Source: Disinfolklore

The method rests on two scholarly pillars: Georges Dumézil’s tripartite Indo-European functional system (sovereignty, security, fertility) and Timothy Tangherlini’s three categories of legend-based interaction with the Other (sexual contact/kidnapping, food disruption, mortal threats). Tool 1 fuses these into a detection instrument.

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