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...his book, subtitled How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore, is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)...

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...and five tension-racked, emotionally shattering court cases. All for my efforts on behalf of the humble hare, a creature hailed in Irish legend and folklore, a proud part of my country’s wildlife heritage, but that Irish law permits to be abused in a cruel game of chance called hare coursing…one of the world’s most barbaric blood sports ...

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...he abundance of pithy proverbs that comment on many aspects of ancient Hawaiian life. Perhaps no other Polynesian dictionary contains as much poetry, folklore, and ethnology....

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...Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his Merry Men. Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted we...

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... Godfrey Leland was an American humorist who traveled extensively throughout Europe and the US. Leland worked in journalism, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. He worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmann’s Ball...

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...h journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and Japan. As well as writing books, articles and poems, he often gave lectures, and also broadcast talks on Celtic mythology. This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria,...

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...en finding Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter, who after being won is kidnapped from him by the King of the Land of Mist. It is solidly based in Irish folklore, itself being originally a folktale....

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...his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the l...

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...A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hans...

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...es web magazine A sculptor 245 V i e t N a m Ades web magazine museum of folklore 246 V i e t N a m Ades web magazine nguyen thAi hoc - houses And ...

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...he giddiest one”. It amalgamates a number of models reaped from the large folklore of dictatorship, giving the measure of the anti-realities of that ... ...rship: “the play has acted in myself”), the simultaneous scenes, the porno folklore, The mechanical ritual of utterance, the alternance in speech of ... ...ng towards himself the voluptuousness of derision with a clever cynicism. Folklore patterns are imitated, but some paraphrases seem like street jokes... ... includes short stories, tales, drama, essays, poems, interviews and even folklore collections. It seems to be an already “traditional” re-launching ... ...ng of the movement (starting just from the Bible), extrapolated theorems, folklore of the running to and fro fellows, absurd legislative proposals, ...

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...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ...ity - local language (dialect) - local concepts, cognitions and categories Folklore supporting community - localization of storytelling - moralistic n... ...articularly in agrarian cultures, knowledge of weather wisdom and calendar folklore were extremely important. The villagers farmed together, and toget... ...buried without death rites and the care of their families. The most common folklore both in Finland and the whole Western world is probably narratives... ...ducing new innovations, new environmental technology and everyday culture, folklore of world channels. Final culture is (2) without boundaries. It is ... ...gion of Ban Nai. A Hamlet in Central Thailand. Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Folklore. Indiana University 1967. Kurusapha Press, Bangkok. Ayabe, Tsuneo... ...ian Birth Customs, 115–204. HRAF Press, New Haven. — 1968. Essays on Thai Folklore. The Social Science Association Press, Bangkok. — 1986 (1954). P...

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...es turn into epigrams, the contemporary- urban (sometimes suburban!) or rural folklore is recovered ( From world gathered) (De prin lume adunate) or...

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...algorithms of creation. Paradoxism naturally arises and manifests. It is in folklore, humanistic fields and even more. Surprisingly, the paradoxism... ... indifferentemente dal mio desiderio o di qualsiasi altro. Esso e’ anche nel folklore. Sorprendentemente, il paradossismo si fonda sulla scienza, c...

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...hauung") - possibly the same history, the same language or dialect, the same hopes, folklore, fears, and aspirations ("agenda"), the same enemies an... ...Balkan, shared the same rituals, the way of life, the superstitions, the magic, the folklore, the customs and the habits regardless of religious per...

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...initiated, the house is rambling with hidden passages, dark corners, low ceilings, folklore and horror stories, and accumulations of tons of antiqu...

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...tical predictions, besides their predestination ″tinge”, are probably just folklore and they can’t be rationally integrated into a serious theory as ...

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...tant look, silently nodding. She'd been interested in horses and the Wicca folklore behind them since she'd been a kid. She knew they were considered ...

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... her sinking spirit, and threw her a lifeline now and again, some snatch of folklore or legend to keep her mind occupied for a while. The gulls swo...

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... PSA2004, 2004. 14. Wiithrich, C. To quantize or not to quantize: fact and folklore in quantum gravity. Proc. Phil. of Sci. Assoc., 19th Biennial Meet...

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...associated with the immune system. Reportedly, the idea was derived from Zulu folklore, in which banana peels have been used for a variety of skin a...

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...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ... based upon some central-common historical-cultural background of myth-legend-folklore-religion: they came to repeat the same names over and over. ... ... instead of the truth. Fictional Knights and fictional Kings replaced actual folklore and actual events. Europeans came to be raised on a diet of c... ...ld of the devil… the incarnation of pure evil? How do myths, fairytales and folklore describe evil sorcerers and witches? When they are physical... ... is linked to physical cleanliness and purity. The Undead in Myth, Legend, Folklore and Books Vampire, ghouls, evil gnomes, brownies, evil spir...

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... of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and non-fiction pieces on special ceremonies in Japanese life, such as marriage and harakiri, as observed by Lord Redesdale. The best know story of these is The Forty-seven Ronins a true ...

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... the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular English legends and folklore using dramatic themes. The poem recounts the exploits and the personal spiritual journey of a doubtful knight errant - Harold the son of Danish Count Witikind: who seeks to recover his lands and wed a suitable spouse...

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...blic schools. She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story. (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.) (Summary by Lars Rolander and Wikipedia]...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in orde...

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...lay before the English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the...

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...n by Robert F. Spiller. Introductory Note: The “Lake Gun,” though based on folklore about Seneca Lake in Central New York State (the “Wandering Jew” a...

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...y the pageantry of courtly chivalry, but also traits of an- cient Germanic folklore and probably of Teutonic mythol- ogy. One of its earliest critics ... ...er, the story reached the North, it became part and parcel of Skandinavian folklore, only certain names still pointing to the original home of the leg...

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...n counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a ...

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...m of Charlemagne or Dante, qualified by a great deal of modern science and folklore which Father Dempsey would call the ravings of an Atheist. Well, m...

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...re almost grown over now, and no one comes to the tree.” “I should. I love folklore and all festering super- stitions.” “Do you think that the tree re... ...e- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies abo...

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...ymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides....

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...ion 11 In the Spirit: Shinto and Animism Pick A Topic 13 Odes to Sexuality: Erotic Literature 15 Cowboys & Indians: False Histories of American Folklore 16 Scents of Decadence: Perfume and the Decadence Movement 17 Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls ‘o Fire! 19 In Focus: Ansel Adams 20 Author Spotlight...

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...The tragic story of the Burke and Wills expedition is now part of Australian folklore and we know the sad irony that by the time that the relief parties set out, only one member of Burke’s party, John King, was still alive. But in 1861, with none of the rapid means of communication we now enjoy, all t...