Key work on the traditional ballad was undertaken in the late 19th century in Denmark by Svend Grundtvig and for England and Scotland by the Harvard professor Francis James Child. They attempted to record and classify all the known ballads and variants in their chosen regions.
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target's belief.
Gaslighting Changes Your World View. If you are gaslighted by someone, the world seems cockeyed and youâre driven crazy by hearing one thing and thinking something else happened. You run the tapes in your head over and over to figure out if youâre right or wrong. You try to defend yourself and work harder to prove yourself to the other person.