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, 2006 "The Ultimate Fairies Handbook" is a visual feast of book illustrations, dramatic woodcuts, line drawings and exquisite paintings that celebrate the enchanting world of fairies. It is also a modern classic - a must-have addition to every fairy enthusiast'
Marriott, Susannah
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Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies
Text Matters, 2017 The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest - in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency to demonize fairy belief and ...
Piotr Spyra
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Jambura Geo Education Journal, 2023 Population growth and the activities it carries out make the need for land increase, especially in the city center. Land in the city center which is increasingly limited and expensive is no longer able to be accessed by the community to support its ...
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Gyermeknevelés Tudományos Folyóirat, 2022 When adults (or children) want to find really good fairy tale books, doing so is not as simple as it seems. Although bookstores are full of children’s books, only some are worth reading. As a result, potential readers are often helpless since they cannot decide which book to choose or what qualities a good fairy tale should contain.
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The Supernatural Beings of Belief Legends – Old Fears in a New Context
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2020 This paper examines the use of belief legends about witches, werewolves, and fairies at open-air festivals in Croatia today. At such events, traditions based on belief legends are invented with the idea of enriching local tourism not only as a source of ...
Luka Šešo
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Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in the Scottish witchcraft trials [PDF]
, 2005 This paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with “elf-shot.” Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and ...
Hall, A., Hall, Alaric
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, 2023 This paper examines women, folk healing, fairies, witches, and the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland. Popular belief that interactions with fairies could impart healing knowledge or magical abilities on folk healers ...
Campbell, Angela
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Fééries, 2020 In the biblical context Herodias is a famous figure, wife of Herod Antipas, that demanded the execution of John the Baptist. At the same time, her daughter Salome, known for her famous dance, appears under the same name.
Stamatios Zochios
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Studi Irlandesi, 2023 The Artemis Fowl series (2001-2012) is described by its Irish author Eoin Colfer as “Die Hard with Fairies”. Artemis Fowl is an-eight book series of adventures and supernatural actions. The starring character, Artemis Fowl, is a twelve-year- old criminal
Dalia Mohammed Hamed
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British Dental Journal, 2005 Everyone knows the story of the tooth fairy, but fine art degree student Cordelia Cembrowicz has transformed the mythical figure in a most unusual way.
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