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Retelling Local Legends: Implementing CIRC In Teaching Writing Narrative Text [PDF]

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2019
: Introducing local legends is crucial for students to preserve their existence. However,  many students in SMAN 1 Katibung South Lampung found it difficult to retell narrative text in writing, especially local legends, because they are lack of grammar ...
Bella Maidiya Putri, sayid wijaya
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Narratives of Hegemony and Marginalization: Deconstructing the History Legends of India [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2022
Myths and legends as local sources of history reveal their implicit assumptions and demonstrate the way in which events are filtered through the interpretations of their authors.
Sabina ZACHARIAS
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Unearthing Mythological Legends of Local Communities in Pontevedra, Capiz, Philippines

open access: yesJPAIR, 2014
The mythological origin of a place does not literally tell us where we are or who we are, they can be clues to understand the significant stories of history of a place it may be in the form of words and phrases used by the first inhabitants and speaking ...
Rossandrew Banico-Villaruel
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Cooperation for Renewal of Local Cultural Heritage in Rural Communities: Case Study of the Night of Legends in Latvia

open access: yesEuropean Countryside, 2020
The aim of the paper is to describe the phenomenon of the Night of Legends in Latvia particularly focusing on the case of manors in Jelgava county. This event aims to preserve and promote local cultural heritage by active involvement of local community ...
Paula Līga, Kaufmane Dace
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Settling in the land of wine and honey: Cultural tourism, local history and some Australian legends [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Australian Studies, 2005
This essay looks at tensions between metropolitan and local versions of history in imagining national and regional identities for tourists and locals.
Christopher Lee
exaly   +2 more sources

The Supernatural Beings of Belief Legends – Old Fears in a New Context

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2020
This paper examines the use of belief legends about witches, werewolves, and fairies at open-air festivals in Croatia today. At such events, traditions based on belief legends are invented with the idea of enriching local tourism not only as a source of ...
Luka Šešo
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Evading Military Service and Tales of Hidden Artillery: Military Legends in Estonian Folklore

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
The article explores Estonian military lore, focusing on the legends and rumours that circulated mainly among men conscripted into the Soviet army, but also among those who served in the Estonian Defence Forces.
Eda Kalmre
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The Local Impact of Migratory Legends: The Process and Function of Localisation

open access: yesJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2013
Folk narratives are one of the mechanisms by which humans form their cultural reality; and space is an important part of this reality. In the majority of examples, contemporary legends do not explicitly refer to individual elements of the local space ...
Ambrož Kvartič
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The Spirit of the Place and the Place of the Spirit

open access: yesTemenos, 2021
Southwest Finnish folklore recorded in the early twentieth century contains a wealth of legends about local spirits, residing and acting both in the wilderness and on farm premises. They belong to belief systems that express social norms and regulations.
John Björkman
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Toponymic Legends and Historical Facts (Legends about Robbers in the Area of Vologda and Kostroma Regions Eastern Boundary) [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2015
The article deals with toponymic legends about robbers collected by the Ural University Toponymic Expedition on the eastern boundary between Vologda and Kostroma Regions, these legends being especially widely spread in Vokhomsky District of Kostroma ...
Elena L. Berezovich   +2 more
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