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Two folktales (Vampire beings in Greek folktales)
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2022 This paper attempts to elaborate how the vampire theme is conceptualized in Greek folktales. It’s a case study of the Greek folk tales: “Gelloudi” and “The Lamia bride” found in the compilation Paramythokores (2002). The folktale complies with a strict formulaic style of oral narration and the most time-resilient elements of storytelling are the motifs
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ILCEA, 2014 This paper studies The Folktales of mugwort [Polynnye skazki] by Yuri Koval’, based on his mother’s childhood memories. We will focuse on two apparently contradictory aspects of this text: the realism of the context and the wonderful aspect of folktales.
Laure Thibonnier
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Tracing Islamic Sources in the Saraiki Folktales
Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, 2021 Saraiki is one of the languages spoken by the people of Southern Punjab sine prehistoric times. Like all old languages of the world, this language has a long tradition of oral narratives especially the folktales which transferred by word of mouth from ...
Zahoor Hussain, Saiqa Imtiaz Asif
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PHYSICAL AND VERBAL VIOLENCE IN INDONESIAN FOLKTALES RETOLD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2016 Folktales as a cultural expression can contain all aspects of human life including violence. As Indonesia comprises so many diverse cultures, the context of violence, its degree and its nature, are also various.
Qanitah Masykuroh
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Morphology of folktales in Bushehr Province [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2018 The present study aims to analyze the morphology of some local stories of the city of Bushehr in Iran. These three stories, with some difference, correspond to the patterns of Vladimir Propp and are in harmony with the functions of his theory, though ...
Human Shakeri, Bahaeddin Eskandari
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O обичном коњу у српским народним приповеткама
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2020 About the "Common" Horse in Serbian Folktales. The paper analyses the character of the common (nonmagic) horse in Serbian folktales from the following perspectives: (1) names and attributes, (2) function, (3) horse owners, (4) characteristics in animal ...
Voyvodich, Darya
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The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 This study aims to describe and explain (1) the hero figure and his worldview in the folktales ‘The Legend of Sunan Kalijaga’ and ‘The Legend of Ki Ageng Pandanaran’; and (2) Sunan Kalijaga’s struggle and patriotism in the two folktales. This research is
Nugraheni E. Wardani
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The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2023 In this paper I investigate the state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria to ascertain whether they (folktales and play-songs of children) are still alive and active in this culturally important town in northern Nigeria.
Bilkisu Abubakar Arabi
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Improving Bayesian statistics understanding in the age of Big Data with the bayesvl R package [PDF]
, 2020 The exponential growth of social data both in volume and complexity has increasingly exposed many of the shortcomings of the conventional frequentist approach to statistics.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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