How is Slenderman Internet Folklore?

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The assertions made in the film clips about ‘Doctor Who’ states that it is a fictional character.

The character is of a doctor who is considered as a power of ‘G or Good force’ and loves

humanity. He appears anytime and anywhere when called upon in times of need. He is

universal and resurrected and he knows the start and end as well as much more of the

universe. There is a huge fan base of Doctor Who and he is considered as a god by some of

his fans. Thus Doctor Who has become a religion in the heart and minds of some of his

blindly loyal fans. But, actually Doctor Who is an internet character which has developed

over a period of time to defeat the evils. There is actually no such character in reality as it

cannot be possible for a human being to travel into the past with the help of a phone booth

which is called as a time machine of Doctor Who. But, it been found that whether the

Whovians also called the fans of Doctor Who actually believes that there is any existence of a

real life character of such super human. These are actually scripted and edited internet shows

to inculcate the habit of humanity, love, respect and fight against the evils forces within the

human beings. Through Doctor Who, it tries to create awareness among the people to fight

and struggle to win over cruelty, disrespect, crimes and jealousy.

The fictional character with a huge fandom is Harry Porter. It is a book written by the famous

fictional book writer J.K. Rowling. The book when filmed on the big screen was acclaimed

by many children and youngsters globally. There were more than 500 million copies of the

Harry Porter series sold around the world. The Harry Potter diehard fans were called

Potterheads. This is the story of a small boy whose parents were marvellous wizards of the

magical city known as the Hogwarts. It was a mystery how the child’s parent died and he was

bought up as an orphan. Later he travels all the way to Hogwarts to find the culprit who killed
his parents. When the series of Harry Porter was over the fans although disappointed but still

followed the Harry Porter series. Some of the fans even though Hogwarts to be their second

home.

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One of the folklore other than Urban Legend and Slenderman is “little red riding hood”. It is

a fairy tale of a little girl and a deadly wolf. This story was taken from the 10 th century of

European and Italian folk tales called ‘The False Grandmother’. The story states that the little

girl wears a red hooded cloak and walks through the woody forest to give food to her elderly

grandmother. The deadly wolf follows the little girl and wants to eat her as well as the food.

The wolf asks the girl where she was going. On hearing that she wants to deliver the food to

her grandmother, the wolf cunningly reaches her grandmother’s house and swallows the

grandmother and disguises himself to be the girl’s grandmother. When the girl reaches the

grandmother’s house she realises something fishy. But the wolf eats the girl also and the story

ends here. This story was written by Charles Perrault. In French version of the same story,

there was a woodcutter who comes to rescue the little girl and the grandmother with his axe

and cuts open the deadly wolf. Thus there is a significance contrast found in the two version

of the same story which is the theme of folklore.

References

Cnet.com; Is Doctor Who a religion?; https://www.cnet.com/news/is-doctor-who-a-religion/

The Top Ten; Most Popular Fandoms; https://www.thetoptens.com/popular-fandoms/

DLTK teach; Little Red Riding Hood; https://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/littlered/story.htm