Stephen King, Cujo

In Cujo, the father of a young boy scared of the dark composes this "catechism" for him, to be repeated every night before bedtime:

THE MONSTER WORDS
for Tad

Monsters, stay out of this room!
You have no business here.
No monsters under Tad's bed!
You can't fit under there.
No monsters hiding in Tad's closet!
It's too small in there.
No monsters outside of Tad's window!
You can't hold on out there.
No vampires, no werewolves, no things that bite,
You have no business here.
Nothing will touch Tad, or hurt Tad, all this night.
You have no business here.

Compare this with, say, the 大招:

魂乎歸來！無東無西，無南無北只。
東有大海，溺水浟浟只。
螭龍並流，上下悠悠只。
霧雨淫淫，白皓膠只。
魂乎無東！湯谷寂寥只。

魂乎無南！南有炎火千里，蝮蛇蜒只。
山林險隘，虎豹蜿只。
鰅鱅短狐，王虺騫只。
魂乎無南！蜮傷躬只。

魂乎無西！西方流沙，漭洋洋只。
豕首縱目，被發鬤只。
長爪踞牙，誒笑狂只。
魂乎無西！多害傷只。

魂乎無北！北有寒山，趠龍赩只。
代水不可涉，深不可測只。
天白顥顥，寒凝凝只。
魂乎無往！盈北極只。

and so on. (the same structure is also evident in the 招䰟).

Assuming that Stephen King doesn't read ancient Chinese poetry, even in translation, we have here perhaps an argument for general (rather than comparative) literature. Is there something in primordial (childish/"primitive") fears of monsters which itself, translated into ritual, summons up this liturgical structure of warning + elucidation? Does perhaps the depth of consciousness of an Other which is manifested in quasi-mythological fears, having enforced the presence of a binary on the mind, result in an automatic eruption of binarism into the syntactical structure? A question for a future literary neuroscience, perhaps...

...yet is history really obviated here? King's catechism is not of the same order as the Chu lyrics; it is a conscious attempt by a modern pop novelist to evoke the primordial--or, more precisely, to evoke a "primordial" as understood by King and his readers from the vantage point of late capitalism. The question would seem to be, is the contemporary unconscious shaped by an accidental cultural training into something which responds to certain sets of primordial formulae, or does it simply respond in certain ways because of structures in the brain. That is, of precedent and predisposition, which is accident and which is essence?