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Ritual curse in Egypt during prehistoric and early dynastic Periods طقوس اللعنة ومظاهرها في مصر خلال عصور ما قبل التاريخ والعصور المبكرة [PDF]
Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2021 الملخص: تُعد اللعنة نوعاً من أنواع إنزال العقاب أو الحرمان الإلهي؛ وذلك عن طريق القيام ببعض الممارسات والطقوس التي من شأنها إلحاق الأذى بشخص معين إما بطريقة مباشرة أو بطريقة غير مباشرة بحيث ينال المُذنب والمُعتدي عقوبة اللعن على أفعاله. عُرفت طقوس
dr/Zainab Abd Eltwab Riyad
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Siła klątwy, magia wody i (nie)możność zmiany czasu w noweli „Jańcio Wodnik” Jana Jakuba Kolskiego
Studia Filmoznawcze, 2023 The text raises the issue of the presence of the magical sphere in the human experience. Johnnie Waterman, the protagonist of a short story and a film by Jan Jakub Kolski, experiences a mysterious force that begins to govern his life.
Iwona E. Rusek
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Przekleństwa w gwarach kujawskich. Rekonesans [PDF]
Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2023 We relate our reconnaissance on folk acts of verbal aggression to the dialectal material from Kujawy. Examples, mainly lexical devices, idioms with characteristic marked elements, formulas of the wishful mood, are taken from the first volume of the ...
Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa +1 more
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The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021 Referring to the work of Julia Kristeva, this article seeks to perform a comparative analysis between Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), as she appears within the remit of Joss Whedon and David Greenwalts’s Angel (1999–2004), and Vanessa Ives (Eva ...
Kwasu D. Tembo
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Games and Economic Behavior, 2011 This paper studies an auction model in which one of the bidders, the insider, has better information about a common component of the value of the good for sale, than the other bidders, the outsiders. Our main result shows that the insider may have incentives to disclose her private information if she faces sufficiently strong ...
Ángel Hernando Veciana, Michael Tröge
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The curse of normalization [PDF]
Comparative and Functional Genomics, 2002 AbstractDespite its enormous promise to further our understanding of cellular processes involved in the regulation of gene expression, microarray technology generates data for which statistical pre‐processing has become a necessity before any interpretation of data can begin.
Wolkenhauer, O +2 more
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A man's role as a head, a burden or a blessing? An exploration of the African and Christian perspectives on the conventional role of a male person [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 In 2020, during a strict lockdown in South Africa, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country experienced an increase in gender-based violence (hereafter, GBV) cases perpetrated by men.
Rev. Jacob Mokhutso
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Journal of Economic Growth, 2006 Foreign aid provides a windfall of resources to recipient countries and may result in the same rent seeking behavior as documented in the "curse of natural resources" literature. In this paper we discuss this effect and document its magnitude. Using data for 108 recipient countries in the period 1960 to 1999, we find that foreign aid has a negative ...
Djankov, Simeon +2 more
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Prometheus myth in contemporary Arabic poetry [PDF]
دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2016 No doubt myths have played an essential role in contemporary Arabic poetry and Arab poets have frequently used different myths for the purpose of enriching and enhancing their poems, as well as preventing them from being purely lyrical.
Ali Najafi ivaki +2 more
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The Father’s Curse in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Humiliated and the Insulted [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2021 One of the significant themes of the novel The Humiliated and the Insulted is the father’s curse, marked throughout the text by a high degree of emotionality. The novel describes two similar stories: the one of Nelly’s mother and Natasha’s.
Daria G. Shervarly
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