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POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA IN CONTEMPORARY FOLKLORE [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2017 The article deals with instances of the supernatural in Romanian urban legends, namely what we call the strigoi , or poltergeist. Usually, folklorists tend to exclude the supernatural f rom the category of urban legends, however we have decided to take ...
Oana VOICHICI
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Současné pověsti a fámy na Nymbursku [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018 Following study deals with contemporary legends and rumours that used to be (or still are being) spread among people in specific rural and smalltown areas of Nymburk district in Czechia.
Tomáš Vančura
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2016 In all of its manifestations, narrative folklore is one of the most important vehicles of articulation of collective identification, when said identification is based on a distinction between Us and Others.
Ambrož Kvartič
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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Brussels at the heart of urban legends?
Brussels Studies, 2011 This article presents urban legends told in Brussels which reflect an urban imagination crossed with local characteristics. Presented as news items although their truthfulness is questionable, these stories mentioning Brussels tell of attacks or harm ...
Aurore Van de Winkel
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.This study explores the origins of life by linking prebiotic chemistry, the emergence of information‐carrying molecules such as RNA and proteins, and philosophical questions about consciousness. The study emphasizes the role of molecular evolution in the Central Dogma and provides insights into the chemical origins of biology and the basis of life's ...
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Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018 The article analyses phenomenon of the “exemplary stories” — apocryphal anecdotes often told at parties as realistic stories which supposedly really happened, but which are in fact variants of socially quite widespread, sometimes even international ...
Véronique Campion-Vincent
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Krajina po těžbě břidlice očima trampů a táborníků aneb o brownfieldech jinak (Nízký Jeseník) [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2017 The paper discusses secondary recreational uses of abandoned slate quaries, dumps and mines in the area of Nízký Jeseník (Czech Republic) focusing on campers and tramps, who colonized this area since the second half of the 1940s.
Jiří Kupka, Jan Pohunek
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Bruxelles au cœur des légendes urbaines ?
Brussels Studies, 2011 This article presents urban legends told in Brussels which reflect an urban imagination crossed with local characteristics. Presented as news items although their truthfulness is questionable, these stories mentioning Brussels tell of attacks or harm ...
Aurore Van de Winkel
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Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
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