Wicca, witchcraft and the Goddess revival: An examination of the growth of Wicca in post-war America. [PDF]
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Ball, Caroline
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The Names of Gods and Goddesses in Snorri Sturluson's Edda [PDF]
, 2014 SUNY BrockportLiterary Onomastics ...
Radzin, Hilda
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Lips as Red as Parthian Irish Heroines and the Monks Who Saved Them [PDF]
, 2012 Those who study European society after the fall of the Roman Empire up until the dawn of the Renaissance can attest to the misogyny found in social, political, and religious institutions.
Rutledge, Claire Aliese
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Horses, swine and magical birds : the role of animals in the Mabinogion. [PDF]
, 2011 Numerous animals, both real and enchanted, occur repeatedly throughout the Mabinogion collection of tales. This thesis explores the significance of these animals in some depth, considering why so many appear, what purposes they serve and how they affect ...
Garlick, Susan.
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The Castrated Gods and their Castration Cults: Revenge, Punishment, and Spiritual Supremacy [PDF]
, 2019 Voluntary castration has existed as a religious practice up to the present day, openly in India and secretively in other parts of the world. Gods in a number of different cultures were castrated, a mutilation that paradoxically tended to increase rather ...
Wade, Jenny
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The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein [PDF]
, 2016 The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what kind of good we would like to ...
Filutowska, Katarzyna
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The weaver at the loom: A discussion of Guy Gavriel Kay’s use of myth and legend in The Fionavar Tapestry [PDF]
, 2013 This work will examine the ways in which contemporary fantasy author, Guy Gavriel Kay, uses myths and legends in the construction of his high fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry by demonstrating the thematic and structural similarities between these ...
McColvin, Sarah
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The Sanctity of Burial: Pagan Views, Ancient and Modern [PDF]
Archaeologists worldwide increasingly engage with calls from indigenous communities for the repatriation and reburial of ancestral remains. In this paper, we present findings from the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project: Contemporary Pagan ...
Blain, Jenny, Wallis, Robert
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Celtic and Norse Cultures Interpreted Through Their Beliefs in Thor and the Morrígan [PDF]
, 2018 By comparing the Norse God, Thor, and the Celtic Goddess, The Morrigan, we see the similarities and differences in Celtic and Norse cultures through their practices in worshipping these main deities in their pantheons.
Engelberger, Alisha, Wellman, Robert
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Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: A Medieval, Icelandic Perspective [PDF]
, 2018 This presentation examines two Icelandic Sagas, Thidrandi Whom the Goddesses Slew and Hen-Thorir , for possible answers to the question, why do bad things happen to good people?
Jones, Andraea
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