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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brussel te midden van de stadslegendes?
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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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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