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An analysis of Livonian werewolves in the Early Modern Era
Journal of student-scientists' research, 2022 This paper seeks to do an in-depth investigation on the phenomenon of Early Modern era (1500-1700s) Livonian werewolves. Noting their uniqueness in comparison to contemporaneous werewolves hailing from different geographic areas, I suggest that the ...
Liu Jiaxin, Teddy Delwiche
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Atlantis, 2020 Monsters and the idea of monstrosity are central tenets of Gothic fiction. Such figures as vampires and werewolves have been extensively used to represent the menacing Other in an overtly physical way, identifying the colonial Other as the main threat to
Richard Jorge Fernández
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Народная демонология Полесья в контексте восточнославянских традиционных верований
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2021 This article studies folk demonological beliefs that are widespread on the territory of Polesye, located on the border of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The traditional culture of this region is of great interest for ethnologists of the broadest profile ...
Ľudmila N. Vinogradova
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Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, 2022 Two “military” burials of the Sambian-Natangian culture are considered — Dollkeim-Kovrovo No. 269 and Kleinheide-Guryevsk No. 21 of the Great Migration Period, where there are burials of dogs. Burials with dogs in the early Middle Ages were widespread
M. Kazanski, A. Mastykova
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The creatures in the Yakut zoomorphic pantheon: chimeras and werewolves
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2022 The article is devoted to the study of the creatures in the Yakut zoomorphic pantheon. It is noted that fantastic qualities are an indispensable attribute of all zoomorphic characters in a view of the world and folklore of traditional culture.
Suzdalova Ulyana Petrovna
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Vampires and werewolves: Rewriting religious and racial stereotyping in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series [PDF]
, 2012 Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005–8) demonstrates a strong connection with the theology, cultural practices and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), of which Meyer is an active member. One of the strongest ways in which
Ledvinka, Georgina
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Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route
Geopolitics, 2021 Drawing from Giorgio Agamben’s conceptualisation of the werewolf as a more-than-human figure, this article investigates how this figure may help in analysing the ‘animalisation’ of the refugees banned to the forest along the so-called Balkan Route. After
C. Minca
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Anomalies conjonctives : une réflexion sur les loups garous
Methodos, 2019 In a trial which took place in Livonia (today Latvia) at the end of XVIIth century, a man known as “old Thiess” confessed to be a werewolf. His anomalous confessions have been interpreted in different ways, raising the problem of the ambitions, and ...
Carlo Ginzburg
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“So I suppose you want to ask me why I spared the werewolves”
PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung, 2023 Given the premise that the core skills for future education are creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking (Bialik & Fadel, 2015), the case for making (collaborative) creative prose writing a central activity in the English classroom
Patricia Skorge
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Lechery, lycanthropy and Little Red Riding Hood in Type O Negative’s ‘Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’ [PDF]
, 2016 Type O Negative’s ‘Wolf Moon (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)’ seems to be a melodic ode to lascivious werewolves or to sexual intercourse during menstruation, which is transformative, allowing participation to channel animalistic instincts.
Digioia, A
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