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Supernatural Forces and their role in the “Haft Lashkar” [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2019 One of the motifs of epic and mythological stories is the supernatural forces’ intervention made in the form of supernatural aids from God in support of a hero.
mohammad fuladi, zahra gholami
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E. E. Constance Jones on Existence in Fiction and Imagination
Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi1.11 E. E. Constance Jones (1848–1922) was one of the first women to study philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Ben Caplan
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Poems from Into the Night that Flies So Fast [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2023 These poems form part of a sequence on the life of Bridget Cleary (1867-1895). Cleary was killed by her husband, who claimed at trial to be acting under the belief that his wife had been abducted by fairies and replaced with a changeling.
MILENA WILLIAMSON
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‘Her Room Was Her World’: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2017 Nellie Sloggett (1850–1923) was a Cornish novelist and, under the name Enys Tregarthen, a folklore writer. This article has four aims. First, to bring together all the biographical information about Sloggett.
Simon Young
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Finally, Fairies!: A Study in Hauntological Choreography [PDF]
, 2022 “Finally, Fairies!: A Study in Hauntological Choreography” is the written thesis that documents the creative research, development, and critical reflection of my dance production Finally, Fairies!, a requirement of the M.F.A.
Koepke, Tristan
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Scottish StudiesThe author recorded the tale entitled ‘Giollas na gCos Dubh’ from Pádraig Ó Nia, originally from the island of Fínis, Co. Galway, in 1982. To date, only two other versions of the tale have been identified, although some motifs are found in other ...
Ríonach uí Ógáin
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Different Terms for Fairies in Irish Folktales [PDF]
, 2010 In Irish folktales, fairies appear quite frequently, providing an indispensable presence for the tales. The otherworld and fairies as its inhabitants are depicted in various literary works in Europe, with the idea of the otherworld and fairies considered
高木, 朝子 +2 more
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Vila ljubavnica u književnosti srpskog romantizma
The Lover Fairy in Romantic Serbian Literature
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The paper examines lover fairies in literature of Serbian romanticists. Stressed are especially the connections between folklor-mythological creatures and literary alterations and metamorphoses.
Dejan Ajdačić
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Waterscapes, fairies and Philip Pullman
, 2022 This paper assesses the waterscapes of Philip Pullman as affective literary tourism environments. Many of the key landmarks where action occurs in Pullman’s novels, from Abbeys to pubs to Gyptian barges, are set on or beside rivers whose fluidity mirrors
Lovell, J.
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