He also told fortunes. Over the years Many Midwestern tall tales deal with the legendary logger Paul Bun- yan, who quickly passed from a folk hero of lumberjacks to a mass culture hero of many Americans, mainly in advertising and children's literature, as Daniel Hoffman shows Terry Ann Mood, This is readily proven when one looks at the myriad forms that the folk hero has undertaken through history.
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Dorson, In his own humble, aw-shucks way, he's a folk hero. His physical power and his brave, generous, and hard-working character made Joe Magarac whose name "Magarac" means "donkey" in Croatian the greatest steelworker who ever lived.
A gigantic Joe Magarac squeezes steel rails between his fingers in this mural from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Courtesy of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Joe Magarac, the story goes, was a man made of steel. He was born in an iron ore mine and raised in a furnace. Some versions of the story said Magarac was seven feet tall. Others claimed he was as tall as a smokestack! His shoulders were as big as the steel-mill door and his hands like the huge buckets ladles used to pour molten steel.
He ate that hot steel like soup and cold steel ingots like meat. He could drink a gallon of liquid in one swallow. The mighty Magarac could do the work of 29 men, because he never slept, working 24 hours a day, days a year. He stirred vats of hot steel with his bare hands and twisted horseshoes and pretzels out of iron ingots.
He made railroad rails by squeezing molten steel between his fingers. As the steel cooled, he made it into cannon balls as easily as kids make snowballs. Once, for example, he won a weight-lifting contest and the prize was marrying the mill boss' daughter Mary. But Mary was in love with Pete Pussick. Instead of claiming his prize, Joe stepped aside so she could marry her true love after all, if Joe had a wife, she would be very lonely while he worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week!
Joe could appear just about anywhere in the mill in seconds by walking from one hot furnace rim to another. He used this ability to appear out of nowhere to save steelworkers from danger. Wiktionary 0. Freebase 0. How to pronounce folk hero? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. The tradition is carried on nowadays in an "ironic" fashion in the form of the Memetic Badass - games of one-upmanship involving Chuck Norris or Bruce Campbell only really differ from embellishing the exploits of Cu Chulainn or Paul Bunyan in the fact that they're about living people, and as such are obviously fake.
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