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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]
"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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Making ‘Modern Fairies’: Making Fairies Modern
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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Between 1690 and 1715, the literary fairy tale, the conte de fées, becomes fashionable in France, created by the regulars of Parisian salons and distinct from the folktale.
Monika Kulesza
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Poems from Into the Night that Flies So Fast [PDF]
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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Phlomoides rotata (Benth. ex Hook.f.) Mathiesen is a perennial herb endemic to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with important medicinal properties. Here, we sequenced and analyzed the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of P. rotata and reconstructed the phylogeny of
Yangzom Pema +3 more
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【Objective】A comprehensive evaluation system was constructed to screen the Begonia species / cultivars that can be cultivated in open air and suitable for landscape application in Shenzhen.【Method】Based on the observation and statistics of 16 traits of ...
Guihong XU, Leilei YANG, Lingfei LI
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Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies [PDF]
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 ...
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Gnetum chinense, a new species of Gnetaceae from southwestern China [PDF]
Gnetum chinense sp. nov., a new lianoid species of Gnetaceae, is described from southwestern China. The new species is morphologically similar to G. montanum Markgr. in its oblong elliptic leaves and the ovoid to ellipsoid chlamydosperm, but differs from
Wei-Yin Jin +5 more
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Pentasachme caudatum Wallich ex Wight is considered as one of the Asian enigmatic genera classified in the Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae). To determine its evolutionary relationship in the family, we sequenced and characterized the complete chloroplast ...
Shenyu Miao +3 more
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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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