Sam Hommel

11/1/16
Annotated Source List
Admin, http://www.ancientdestructions.com/author/AD. "Aboriginal Myth and Mega Tsunami's
- Evidence from Aboriginal Legends." Ancient Destructions

. N.p., 16 Mar. 2015. Web. 28 Oct.

2016.

Summary:
This article provides a composite of many different tsunami myths of the Aboriginal people
across Australia, and the evidence that supports the actual occurrence of these events. Specific
stores are cited, and told, like how Tibrogargan saw the wave coming, and ran, but his family
failed to, and now they stand watch at the sea in the form of the Glasshouse Mountains.
Application:
This article, while perhaps a little untrustworthy, had many citations that have led and will likely
lead to more useful sources

Andrei, Mehei. "Doggerland - the Land That Connected Europe and the UK 8000 Years Ago."
ZME Science. N.p., 09 Jan. 2016. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
This article provides details into the scientific history of Doggerland, the land that once
connected Europe and the British Isles. Most importantly, it summarizes how the facts about this
ancient and inundated land came to be found, through archaeological research combined with the
pure chance of fishing trawlers picking up artifacts.

Application:
This article did not provide any more new information about the mythical Doggerland, but it did
show how these discoveries came to be, guiding me in my further research.
Biography.com, Editors.
"Johnny Appleseed Biography." Biography.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 06
Oct. 2016.
Summary:
This biographical article of Johnny Chapman is simply that, a biography of a folk hero later to
be known as Johnny Appleseed. It provides insights into his life, where he was born and what he
did throughout his time. He planted multiple orchards, and preached goodwill throughout the
territories he wandered, leading to folktales and legends with him as a subject.
Application:
The information contained in this source is interesting, but nonessential. The important aspect of
it for my research is that it proves that folktales can be based in absolute, unequivocal truth. John
Chapman was a real person, who really did plant orchards, and the fact that folktales arose from
this allows my research to continue

Bowler, J. M. "Glacial

Age Environments of Australia." (n.d.): n. pag. Google Scholar. Web. 1

Dec. 2016.
Summary:
This source explores the glacial and geological history of the Australian content. It details
numerous data pertaining to these topics, but focuses mainly on rivers and underlying geology.

Application:
The application for this source is limited. It provides only a brief synopsis of the glacial history
of Australia.

Bryant, Edward. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print.
Summary:
This book provides useful insight to a few of the many Aboriginal folktales that feature flooding
and tsunamis. While the book focuses specifically on the tsunami aspect of the myths, rather than
the slow flooding due to the end of the Ice Age, it still details multiple folktales that could be
connected to such a thing. The book cites specific scientific datum in relation to these folktales
as well, such as the mega-tsunami carved landscape, or how clusters of fossils were found far
inland, as if organisms were running from floods or waves.
Application:
This source is extremely useful, as it provides many examples of Aboriginal folklore and even
does some of my work for me, connecting the stories with scientific fact.

Dundes, Alan. "Noah's Ark Revisited: On the Myth-Land Connection in Traditional Australian
Aboriginal Thought." The Flood Myth. Berkeley: U of California, 1988. N. pag. Print.
Summary:
This book delves deeply into flood myth from around the world, but also focuses specifically on
the Australian continent. The author focuses especially on one synthesis of flood myths, between
the Christian culture introduced form settlers and the traditional Aboriginal culture.

Application:
This source, while interesting, has only sparing application to my topic. It does not focus very
much on traditional flood myths.

"Ice Ages and Sea Levels." Global Greenhouse Warming. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2016.
Summary:
This source focuses in on the qualitative side of the Ice Age sea level changes in and around
Australia. It features multiple examples from data, and descriptions of how the continent was
connected to multiple nearby islands, due to lower sea levels.

Application:
This article has a very specific but necessary application. To connect flood myths with flooding,
the lands being flooded have to be identified.
Isaak, Mark. "Flood Stories from Around the World." Flood Stories from Around the World.
N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2016.
Summary:
This source features numerous examples of flood myths from all across the world, but also many
from Australia. For example, the flood myth of how Crow cut an island in two through flooding,
and inadvertently created a reef.

Application:
This source is very applicable to the topic. It has many folktales that could be connected to ice
age flooding.

John, Brian. "Inundation of Cardigan Bay-the Oldest Story in Wales?"Stonehenge and the Ice
Age. N.p., n.d. Web.

Summary:
This article, from an authentic expert in the subject of Welsh and English folklore, provides
scientific context for a fantastical folktale. First, the author, Brian John, tells the reader of how
the area just to the West of Wales was flooded, including empirical data. Then, he launches into
a folktale from the area that could possibly explain this event, how a priestess left a magical well
open, drowning an entire kingdom.
Application:
Being the first source I found, this was incredibly useful. It did exactly what I intend to do,
provide scientific context for myths and stories. This was not the particular myth I ended up
deciding on, but it provides a good template for future research.

Korbonits, Marta. "University of Exeter." Featured News. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
This study is incredibly scientific, but also adds some useful connection to folktales and legends.
In it, the studys process was detailed, how researchers from the University of Exeter underwent
a genetic study of Irish people in a specific area, finding that a gene that causes gigantism was
incredibly common. While also allowing medical staff to operate more quickly on affected
subjects, it also provided some context for the legend that Ireland is an island of giants.

Application:
The myth in this article was not my focus, but again, it showed how a connection could be
scientifically made between a folktale and actual fact.

McKay, Helen F., Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace. Jones, and June E. Barber. Gadi
Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming. Englewood, CO: Libraries
Unlimited, 2001. Print.
Summary:
This book focuses mainly on a general spread of Australian Aboriginal folk tales, but features a
section about flood myths specifically. In this section, it is even suggested that some of the
stories could be related to the rise of sea levels at the end of the last ice age.
Application:
Many useful folktales could be gleaned from this source, and they show special promise due to
the author specifically mentioning the purpose of this project.

Orlove, Benjamin. "Ethnoclimatology in the Andes: A Cross-disciplinary Study Uncovers a

Scientific Basis for the Scheme Andean Potato Farmers Traditionally Use to Predict the Coming
Rains." (n.d.): n. pag. Opposing Viewpoints in Context [Gale]. Web.
Summary:
This study is one that took place on the opposite side of the world, and the article that
accompanied and explained it was much more thorough. It went through the entire process of

how these researchers studied the folk-meteorology of the Andes, and how scientifically accurate
it is, from the initial Western discovery of the event itself, to the publishing of their thesis.

Application:
The usefulness of this study to my research is similar to many others, it is not the specific myth
or folk culture element I am delving into, but it shows how real researchers and scientists
accomplish such a feat.

Parker, K. Langloh. "The Origin of the Narran Lake." Australian Folktales - The Origin of the
Narran Lake. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.
Summary:
This article tells the story of the origin of Lake Narran in Southeastern Australia. In the story, a
hunters wives are kidnapped by monsters, and the monsters also teal all the water from an area.
When the man kills them, the thrashing of their corpses creates a lake bed, and the water they
stole filled the lake.
Application:
This source is applicable only in its relation to my topic, that there are Australian folktales about
the origins of bodies of water, or their changes.

Parry, Vivienne. "How an Irish Giant and an 18th-century Surgeon Could Help People with
Growth Disorders." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 11 Jan. 2011. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
This article, also about gigantism in Ireland, gives more folklore context for the recent genetic
discoveries rendered about the subject. It tells of a specific Irish giant, Charles Byrne, and about
how he was hounded by doctors to be researched on, and about his refusal. Eventually though,
researchers got their hands on his bones, and his genes led to the discovery that many people in
Ireland have latent or not-so-latent gigantism genes within them.

Application:
This article served to narrow my search, as well as provide a possible route to scientific
connection between folklore and fact. The myth was not interesting to me, so I moved onto
another possible tale from another culture, but the method of linking the story with fact provides
examples for my future research.

Piccardi, Luigi. "Legends Associated with Comets and Tsunami." Myth and Geology. N.p.: n.p.,
n.d. N. pag. Print.

Summary:
This book, written by Luigi Piccardi on myths and geology in general, focuses on aboriginal
myths featuring floods and comets. This excerpt synthesizes many different tales from Australian

native culture, essentially providing the information as the article above, but in more detail and
in a more believable format. Comets falling from the sky to make lagoons, the sky itself falling,
many folktale premises are made mention of, and connected with scholarly expertise.
Application:
My research is greatly aided by this book. It provides multiple specific examples of Aboriginal
folktales, and the premise of the book is even to connect these folktales with ancient fact, the
very purpose of my research.

Rincon, Paul. "Prehistoric North Sea 'Atlantis' Hit by 5m Tsunami." BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web.
21 Sept. 2016.

Summary:
This National Geographic article provides operational context for the discovery of Doggerland.
It communicates to readers where Doggerland was, and about the people that could have lived
there, but most importantly it details how archeologists and historians were able to discern its
existence and location. This mythical land was hypothesized, but confirmed through diligent
archaeological work, and the random chance that a few Dutch fishing boats pulled artifacts from
the muck.
Application:
The scholarly process of how the discovery came about is the main application this article had on
my research. This is not the myth or folktale I chose to focus on, but the detailed accounts of
Doggerlands discovery give useful insight into the possible avenues for my own discoveries.