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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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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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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 In this article Lithuanian folk narratives describing the creation of the World and its constituents (Earth, celestial bodies, human beings) are analyzed. By their origin and nature these narratives are supposed to be related to the archaic creation myth,
Nijolė Laurinkienė
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The Oral Folk Literature of the Ancient Meiteis of Manipur: An Analysis of its Cultural Significance
Space and Culture, India, 2018 Oral narratives are the earliest forms of storytelling as they exist in every culture as a part of religious rituals, folk music and songs. They include ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, musical genres, folk tales, creation stories, songs, myths,
Thounaojam Caesar, Reena Sanasam
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2012 The article presents Ludvik Janež from Čadrg, (Tolmin, northwest Slovenia), who is a folklore storyteller and collector of storytelling heritage. His rich repertoire has made him quite a name in his domestic environment, and in recent years he has often ...
Barbara Ivančič Kutin
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Λαϊκός πολιτισμός στην ψηφιακή εποχή: παραμύθια και ηλεκτρονικά παίγνια
Syn-Thèses, 2022 Fairy tales are timeless stories that introduce people to the literary, social and cultural heritage of diverse cultures and evolve to reflect contemporary social culture. Today, as the field of folklore studies expands and recognizes the contribution of
Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki
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The Legacies of Bindy Johal: The Contemporary Folk Devil or Sympathetic Hero
Religions, 2020 A folk devil has the ability to elicit a community’s fear over crime. Notorious late gangster, Bindy Johal, occupies this position as his legacy stirs the social anxieties over gang violence by some in the Punjabi-Sikh community in Western Canada.
Manjit Pabla
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2013 This article investigates correlations between Fran Milčinski’s Butalci and humorous Slovenian folk narratives about Lemberg. A small market town, called Lemberg, is famous for being the centre of numerous jokes and humorous stories.
Katarina Šrimpf
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy +6 more
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Between Folk and Lore: Performing, Textualising and (mis)Interpreting the Irish Oral Tradition [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2017 Folklore, as a historical and cultural process producing and transmitting beliefs, stories, customs, and practices, has always thrived and evolved in the broader context of history and culture.
Vito Carrassi
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