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“The Sort of Story That Has You Covering Your Mirrors”
Semiotic Review, 2013 As a monster, Slender Man epitomizes the simultaneous alienness and familiarity that characterizes the uncanny. Created by users on the Something Awful forums, the Slender Man’s most common depiction is as a preternaturally tall, skinny humanoid with a ...
Jeffrey Tolbert
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Trickster Traits in the Folklore Image of Mazan-Batyr [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2019 This paper focuses on one aspect of the image of Mazan-batyr, a popular hero of Kalmyk folklore. Kalmyk tales represent Mazan as a cunning hero, able to trick his opponent instead of using strength and martial skills.
Boris Yu. Sengleev
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Fortuna de los géneros narrativos orales en Galicia
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2017 This article offers a review of the main contributions to fieldwork, documentation and other related topics on the Galician oral tradition narrations, from the earliest attested examples to the present.
Antonio Reigosa
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Smart kills and worthless deaths: eSports analytics for League of Legends
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS), 2020 Vast data on eSports should be easily accessible but often is not. League of Legends (LoL) only has rudimentary statistics such as levels, items, gold, and deaths. We present a new way to capture more useful data.
Philip Z. Maymin
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 This paper deals with the presentation of female characters in legends about fate (ATU 934) from Serbian sources. They appear as the Fates, a bride, or a sister, and express various aspects of the feminine imaginarium. The Fates are chthonic in character
Nemanja Radulović
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The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2022 The poem seeks to express the tension within the Black community to be authentic and true to your family/friends without misleading others. The frequency of misinformation being perpetuated in minority communities happens all too frequently to the ...
Michelle E. Jones
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HISTORIOGRAFIE VE VLEKU POLITIKY DĚJIN: PŘÍPAD ŠTEFÁNIKOVSKÉ LEGENDY ĽUDOVÍTA HOLOTÍKA [PDF]
Historický Časopis, 2022 HÁLEK, Jan. Historiography in the Wake of the Politics of History: the case of Ľudovít Holotík’s book Štefánikovská legenda. Historický časopis, 2022, 70, 1, pp. 115–142, Bratislava.
Jan Hálek
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Motivational Profiling of League of Legends Players
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Player motivation is a key research area within games research, with the aim of understanding how the motivation of players is related to their experience and behavior in the game.
Florian Brühlmann +4 more
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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2018 Resumen. Los siete relatos aquí transcritos en español forman parte de un corpus recogido en el pueblo de San Bernardo, Oaxaca, los días 15, 16, 17 y 18 de agosto de 2017.
Carlos Gerardo Hernández Paulino
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Heritage, 2021 Sacred sites and landscapes mirror indigenous peoples’ identity, well-being and sense of place. In Venda, northern South Africa, such places are preserved through myths and legends.
Innocent Pikirayi, Munyadziwa Magoma
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