Comment by hutzlibu
5 years ago
There is a huge differenc between fantasy and making uo stories, which is great - and intentional misleading someone.
So the story with the seamonster .. might be seen as a imaginative way of giving the truth about the dangers of the sea. (But I would just go with the general DANGER, so far I have not been to the sea with my toddler, but on rivers. And he respects it, without being scared irrational)
There's no indication that Inuit children become irrationally scared of the ocean because of the sea monster story they're told.
Then maybe they are at least partly aware, that it is mythology and not real.
Where does "making up stories" end and "mythology" start?
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