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Making ‘Modern Fairies’: Making Fairies Modern [PDF]
Folklore, 2021 The Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘Modern Fairies and Loathly Ladies’ investigated what happened when a number of artists (musicians, writers, filmmakers) were asked to respond to and re-mediate a curated selection of traditional stories about fairies and loathly ladies. The artists came to the project with a spectrum of different
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield
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Characteristics of Iranian Fairies Based on Fairy Tales [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 1. Introduction Folklore is an important aspect of cultural memory of human societies that play a crucial role in defining and re-defining collective identity of a nation, a community, or even a group of people.
Maryam Nemat Tavousi
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Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies [PDF]
Philosophia, 2017 Direct Epistemic Consequentialism faces the Truth Fairy. Indirect Epistemic Consequentialism promises to avoid this issue. But there are worse fairies than the Truth Fairy. There is the Worse Fairy. The case of the Worse Fairy helps demonstrate that epistemic consequentialists who would solve problems like the Truth Fairy by 'going indirect' face a ...
Andow, James +2 more
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“Old Devil Moon”: time, memory and oblivion in the narratives of catabasis and Abduction [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2021 In many folktales, lays and medieval romances, the hero is lured to the Other Worlds by a fairy mistress and they end up married to each other. They spend good time together and through enchantment of the fairy maiden, the hero does not realize the time ...
Sibusiso Hiacynth Madondo
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Semiotic Review, 2022 This article is an exploration of a particular place in two time periods: the period of my doctoral fieldwork in 2012; and, indirectly, the present of early 2022, a full decade after my initial (and so far only) encounters with the place in question. It
Jeffrey Tolbert
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The Beauty of Fireflies: Transience, Myth, Bioluminescence, and Wonder
19, 2023 The beauty of fireflies captivated the imagination of Victorian poets, naturalists, short-story writers, and travel writers alike. Like their earthbound relatives, glow-worms, these unremarkable brown insects in daytime became otherworldly sparks of ...
Kate Flint
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On the quest ion of the origin of legends about Melusine and Madame White Snake
Шаги, 2023 This paper examines the origins of two legends that are close in structure and content: the Western European tale of Melusine and the Chinese tale of the White Snake. The author accepts Ding Naitong's conclusion about the genetic link between the ancient
A. B. Starostina
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Analyzing the Myth of Fairies in Bakhtiari Folk Literature and Literary Texts: Shahnameh and Samak-e Ayyar [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīBakhtiari people consider fairies to be beautiful and charming creatures that appear to young people, often in the woods at night, and cause them harm.
Mahmood Aghakhani Bizhani, Najmeh Dorri
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O vilama u narodnim baladama
On the Fairies in Folk Ballads
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The paper examines variants of southern Slavic folk ballads and ballad songs about fairies. Analyzing the context of folk belief and notions about fairies, the author reveals their mythical and psychological characteristics, as well as thematical ...
Dejan Ajdačić
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Another Analysis of the Composition of "Fairy Snake" in A Verse from Sanayi’s Hadigheh Using Myths and Folk Tales [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2023 "Fairy Snake" is a peculiar expression that has been used by Sanayi Ghaznavi and Khaghani-e Shervani among other Persian poets. They have likened beautiful and disloyal lovers to it.
Behzad Atooni
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