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Supernatural beings from Slovenian myth and folktales [PDF]
Studia Mythologica Slavica Supplementum, 2013 Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and ...
Kropej, Monika, Monika Kropej
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Supernatural beings of Pomerania: postmodern mapping of folkloristic sources
Journal of MapsThe 1:720,000 map ‘A New and Extensive Geographical Description of Supernatural Phenomena in Polish and German Pomerania’ (POMERANIÆ POLONICÆ ET GERMANICÆ PHÆNOMENA SUPERNATURALIA NOVA ET EMPLA DESCRIPTIO GEOGRAPHICA) presents the spatial distribution of
Włodzimierz Juśkiewicz +5 more
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Shamanistic ecstasy and supernatural beings: a study based on field-work among the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967 The paper presents Kafir shamanism and discusses the problem of the relationship of the supernatural beings and the shaman. When approached in the proper way, the supernatural beings may intervene in favour of the people.
Halfdan Siiger
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The Supernatural Beings of Belief Legends – Old Fears in a New Context
Studia 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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Naked supernatural beings: from mythology to the Christian faith
Studia HumanitatisThe paper discusses the specific features of naked supernatural creatures. It was revealed that characters of this kind are presented in mythology of the peoples on all continents.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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Religions, 2022 I argue that arguments for the existence of God provide indirect support for the existence of other supernatural beings such as spirits. I defend three arguments: (i) the existence of spirits is more likely if there is a supernatural realm; (ii) an ...
Hans Van Eyghen
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Vaimud, tulnukad ja Slenderman: üleloomulikud kogemused tänapäeva õpilaspärimuses [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2019 The article concentrates on mapping continuities and changes in the contemporary Estonian school lore about experiences with supernatural beings: main characters, fears, and emotions connected with such supernatural beliefs as well as supernatural ...
Reet Hiiemäe
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2011 Recent field research into traditional beliefs in supernatural beings (werewolves, fairies, witches, and mòras) among the inhabitants of the Dalmatian hinterland has shown that such beliefs are still present within certain groups.
Luka Šešo
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A thematic group through the prism of verbal associations (based on the material of TG “Supernatural beings”) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, ЖурналистикаThe article considers the thematic group "Supernatural beings" in the associative-verbal network of Russian native speakers. Russian associative dictionaries, as well as the texts of the Russian National Corpus (the main subcorpus, the period ...
Severina, Ekaterina Alexandrovna
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