Remembering Teesta and the Water Dragon
HIMALAYA, 2022 In this illustrated folk narrative, a muun, a traditional female shaman of the Lepcha tribe, takes us on a journey of the tribe’s origins, it’s connection to the ancestors, mother earth, and the sacred waters through the muun’s vision of the water dragon.
Alyen Leeachum Foning
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Traditional beliefs in animals in the novel 'The Siege of the St. Salvation Church' by Goran Petrović: Function and meaning [PDF]
Univerzitetska Misao, 2021 This paper examines function and meaning of traditional folk beliefs related to animals in the novel "The Siege of the Church of St. Salvation". Research is attempting to show that the folk beliefs about animals are included in creating novel structure ...
Vasić-Rakočević Branislava +1 more
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Symbolic Equivalences in Belief Tales about Female Nature Spirits
Traditiones, 2015 Ljudsko izročilo o vilah se pogosto prepleta z izročilom o divjih ženah, morskih deklicah, sibilah, rojenicah, čarovnicah in mnogih drugih ženskih bajeslovnih bitjih in demonih.
Monika Kropej Telban
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The Boundaries Between Folktale and Legend: «The Devil as Bridge Builder» in Catalan Tradition
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 : The theme of the devil offering to build a bridge in one night in exchange for the soul of the victim has a considerable presence in folk narrative and is widespread internationally. An analysis of the 27 Catalan versions featuring «the devil as bridge
Carme Oriol
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Polifonia nelle antologie di W.B. Yeats: il dialogo complesso tra folklore e letteratura
Studi Irlandesi, 2014 Compiling and publishing a folk narrative anthology is anything but a trivial, neutral undertaking, especially if this is set in a period of great literary and cultural fervour as was the late XIX century in Ireland.
Vito Carrassi
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Belief Narratives in Lithuanian Mushroom Picking Practices
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis article focuses on certain belief narratives related to mushrooms and mushroom picking practices in Lithuania. It compares material from two time periods: the first from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, which is ...
Vita Džekčioriūtė
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Persian storyteller's scrolls and the need for indexing their motifs with a look on the motifs of Fereydun's tale, a story from Meshkin nameh [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2015 Storytellers' scrolls are one of the most important parts of the folk narratives of this land. These narratives may clarify some of the ambiguous parts of Persian epic tradition. Volume of these scrolls makes their studies rather difficult.
Ensiyeh Hashemi ghalati +2 more
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Reintroducing Aliguyon Using Vogler’s Adaptation of the Monomyth Through a Game Development
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2019 Philippine folk epics are the highest stage of development in Philippine folk literature. However, due to the ravages of colonization and the evolution of contemporary cultural preferences, folk literature has been waning in popularity.
Trisha Marie Cajita +4 more
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Bronislava Kerbelytė: Innovator of Folktale Research
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis article presents the scholarly legacy of Bronislava Kerbelytė (1935–2024), a pioneering Lithuanian folklorist whose lifelong work significantly advanced the study of narrative folklore. Kerbelytė developed a unique methodology of structural-semantic
Jūratė Šlekonytė
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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