Entemardatoi (genre)

Popular with parents, entemardatoi is a genre of stories told to children, often by Children's Speakers entemardatoi is a genre of stories told to children, get them to behave, or just pass on wisdom. These stories are particularly popular with concerned parents and thus are common requests to entertain kids.

Summary

Generally these stories have a young protagonist that disobeys a parent, or questions some common wisdom. The character then goes against this wisdom and finds out the reason for the rule, or the dangers it's meant to protect them against. Often times at the last minute concerned family swoop in and save the child, and the audience is hopefully convinced not to try to do what the child did. However there are a few variations on this ending. Typically for extreme dangers, or when the creators really wanted to drive the point home, the concerned people arrive too late, and there's a sad ending with a village elder or someone reminding everyone of the rule. Other times, this can instead turn out to be an epic tail of a feat of survival, conveying tips for how to survive in the environment and make it home safe if a kid get's lost, or is foolish enough to disobey.

Spread

Children's Speakers are the primary spreaders of these stories, collecting them from parents when the visit new places and telling favorite stories on their travels.

Variations & Mutation

Common themes like "don't wander into the wild" and "obey parents" are pretty universal and have a wide variety with many local versions. It's not uncommon for Seeker Errants to find a new story in this genre on their travels, but rarely are they a focus. However, there's also a good deal of regional specific dangers that appear in these stories only in a few places. For example, in the _____ a big deal is made about not eating the poisons ______ berry common in the region.

--Pronunciation:/ɛnt̪emaɹd̪at̪oi/--

Related Organizations

• Gatherers of the World