Folklore & Mythology
epub |eng | 2002-10-14 | Author:Gibbs, Laura, Aesop
Fable 291 (Chambry 172 = Perry 54) The Farmerâs Boy and the Snails A farmerâs boy was roasting snails. When he heard them sizzling in the fire, he said, âYou ...
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Folklore
October 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gilmore, David D.;
Jungle Queens and Serpents The theme of the evil seductress luring man into the primitive past finds rich expression in late nineteenth-century English adventure novels, especially those involving explorers on ...
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Folklore & Mythology
October 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David D. Gilmore
Kachina figure representing Awatovi Monster Man, painting by Cliff Bahnimptewa. Courtesy Heard Museum. Monster Woman may be accompanied by Awatovi Soyok Taka, or Awatovi Monster Man. Like his female counterpart, ...
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Folklore & Mythology
October 4,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]
1 . This is a popular minstrel tale, containing few mythic elements, which could be told either in Thebes or Argos without causing offence; which would be of interest to ...
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Folklore & Mythology
August 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Shirley Andrews
[contents] 181. In addition to being a successful healer, Kathleen is a retired army officer. Under the pen name of Jane Egan, she has recently completed a book titled The ...
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Folklore & Mythology
August 6,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jan Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold]
NOTES “The Spider in the Hairdo” Gail Parent’s feature “Folklore from the Fifties” containing the quoted text of “The Spider in the Hairdo” appeared in Esquire , March 1976, pp. ...
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Popular Culture
August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-16 | Author:Brunvand, Jan Harold [Brunvand, Jan Harold]
ANIMAL GROUP HEAD SAYS ORIENTALS EAT PETS By Mary Anne Shreve Journal Staff Writer The local president of a humanitarian organization has accused Oriental residents in Springfield of catching—and eating—neighborhood ...
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Popular Culture
August 6,2020 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Gary Greenberg [Greenberg, Gary]
Myth #57: Jacob wrestled with a stranger. The Myth: And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he ...
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Folklore & Mythology
August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Brunvand, Jan Harold [Brunvand, Jan Harold]
From Helen Creighton’s 1957 book Bluenose Ghosts, pp. 185–87. This text shares the “portrait identification” motif with many versions of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker.” A variation of the “Ghost in Search ...
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Folklore & Mythology
August 6,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jan Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold]
ANIMAL GROUP HEAD SAYS ORIENTALS EAT PETS By Mary Anne Shreve Journal Staff Writer The local president of a humanitarian organization has accused Oriental residents in Springfield of catching—and eating—neighborhood ...
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Popular Culture
August 5,2020 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]
Moon – Division of Waters Mars – Dry Land, Pasture and Trees Mercury – Heavenly Bodies and the Seasons Jupiter – Sea-beasts and Birds Venus – Land-beasts, Man and Woman ...
( Category:
Poetry
August 5,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jan Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold]
From Helen Creighton’s 1957 book Bluenose Ghosts, pp. 185–87. This text shares the “portrait identification” motif with many versions of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker.” A variation of the “Ghost in Search ...
( Category:
Folklore & Mythology
August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Maureen Alden [Alden, Maureen]
The man who looks like a god but whose words lack grace obviously corresponds to Euryalus, and the man of insignificant appearance, honoured like a god for his rhetorical gifts, ...
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Medieval
August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Johnston, Sarah Iles
HECATE AND GIRLS’ TRANSITIONS I mentioned above that one of Hecate’s earliest roles in Greek literature and art was that of a wedding attendant. In this she was similar to ...
( Category:
Ritual
August 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Erich Neumann [Neumann, Erich]
27. The hawk god Horns with King Nectanebo II Egypt, 370 B.C. 28. Ramesses I sacrifices to Isis and to the Osiris head symbol Egypt, Abydos, 14th–13th century B.C. 29. ...
( Category:
Folklore & Mythology
July 29,2020 )
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