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The (Mostly) Unseen World of Cryptids: Legendary Monsters in North America
Humanities, 2023 North America is steeped in legends of cryptids, (mostly) unseen creatures woven into the fabric of its folklore. From legends told by early explorers to contemporary legends told today, these enigmatic beings shape societal perceptions and reflect ...
David J. Puglia
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Emotions of Fear in Narratives about the Plague and the Contemporary Pandemic
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2022 Narratives about the plague and other pandemics essentially induce fear and predict death and hunger, triggering a variety of emotions among people, particularly anxiety.
Monika Kropej Telban
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Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook
Folklore, 2021 This volume is the first in a series of International Society for Contemporary Legend Research casebooks, which promises to bring together a variety of scholarly approaches to the subject, along wi...
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2005 The paper presents narratives collected in the last decade in the Karst region in southwest Slovenia, more precisely in Lož Valley with its Snežnik Castle and its forests, in the vicinity of Cerknica Lake, and in the region of Pivka.
Monika Kropej
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The transformation of contemporary analyses of oral folklore: Fairy tale versus fantasy [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 The study focuses on contemporary forms of folklore and their relationship to literary forms like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Game. The first problem is the specification of the terms and the classification of the internal structure of these ...
Otčenášek Jaroslav
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2010 Contemporary legends are an important part of the contemporary folk narrative repertoire and can provide us with vital information on processes in modern day society and culture.
Ambrož Kvartič
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, 2012 At the end of the eighteenth century, a large-scale map of the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege was manufactured, covering more or less the current territory of Belgium.
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Why Was a Baby Devil Born: The Legend about a Blasphemous Communist, Monstrous Births, and the Limits of Religious Didactics [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2018 In 1923, the Russian ethnologist and archaeologist Vasily Smirnov published an article entitled “A Devil is Born. (Contemporary Legend)”. The article dealt with an unusual demonological legend that had appeared short time ago in Soviet Russia.
Alexander A. Panchenko
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Legends of Students’ “Clever Answers”: Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with corresponding analogies in Serbia. These legends concentrate around the motif of «clever answers»,
Jana Baćević
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Nichiren Buddhism in the Contemporary Jazz Improvisation of Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2019 This essay explains how Nichiren Buddhist philosophy and practice of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in Japan inspired the contemporary jazz improvisation of musical legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.
Steve Odin
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