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The Magician's Horse
The Prince Who Worked as Satan's Servant and Saved the King from Hell ( Lithuanian: ''Apė karaliūnaitį, kur pas šėtoną slūžyjo ir karalių išgelbėjo iš peklos'') is a Lithuanian fairy tale collected by German linguists August Leskien and Karl Brugmann. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Grey Fairy Book'' under the title ''The Magician's Horse''. Synopsis A king's three sons went hunting, and the youngest got lost. He came to a great hall and ate there. Then he found an old man, who asked him who he was. He told how he had become lost and offered to enter his service. The old man set him to keep the stove lit, to fetch the firewood from the forest, and to take care of the black horse in the stables. The man was a magician, and the fire was the source of his power, though he did not tell the prince. One day, the prince nearly let the fire go out, and the old man stormed in. Frightened, the prince threw another log on it and nursed it back. The horse told him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and KlaipÄ—da. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Massignon
Genevieve (french: link=no, Sainte Geneviève; la, Sancta Genovefa, Genoveva; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast is on 3 January. Genevieve was born in Nanterre and moved to Paris (then known as Lutetia) after encountering Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes and dedicated herself to a Christian life.McNamara, Halborg, and Whatley 18. In 451 she led a "prayer marathon" that was said to have saved Paris by diverting Attila's Huns away from the city. When the Germanic king Childeric I besieged the city in 464, Genevieve acted as an intermediary between the city and its besiegers, collecting food and convincing Childeric to release his prisoners. Her following and her status as patron saint of Paris were promoted by Clotilde, who may have commissioned the writing of her '' vita''. This was most likely written in Tours, where Clotilde retired after her husband's death, as evidenced also by the impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabula (journal)
''Fabula'' (from lat. ''fabula'': "story, fable") is a multilingual academic journal on comparative folklore studies with a focus on European narratives (such as fairy tales, sagas, and fables). It publishes essays, reviews, and conference reports in German, English, and French. Its subtitle is: ''Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung. Journal of Folktale Studies. Revue d'Etudes sur le Conte Populaire''. Since 1958, the journal has been published bi-annually by De Gruyter and is available in both print and online-editions. It was established by the German scholar Kurt Ranke and is currently edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Simone Stiefbold, and Harm-Peer Zimmermann. It is closely connected to the multi-volume work ''Enzyklopädie des Märchens'' ('' Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales'') and is an official journal of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. From 1959 till 1970 the ''Supplement-Serie A, Texte'' was published. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Dégh
Linda Dégh (18 March 1918 – 19 August 2014) was a folklorist and professor of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, USA. Dégh was born in Budapest, Hungary and is well known as a folklorist for her work with legends, identity, and both rural and urban communities in Europe and North America. In 2004, as professor emerita at Indiana University, she was awarded the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award. Dégh also served as president of the American Folklore Society in 1982. Personal Dégh was born in Budapest, Hungary, on March 18, 1920 and died in Indiana on August 19, 2014. She was married to Andrew Vázsonyi (1906–1986) for 28 years. Career Linda Dégh earned her degree from Péter Pázmány University, in Hungary. After graduating, she began teaching at Eötvös Loránd University in the folklore department. In 1965, she began teaching at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, Bloomington and by 1982, Dégh had become a Distinguished Professor of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hairy Man
The Hairy Man is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Crimson Fairy Book''. Synopsis Two ricks of a king's rapeseed fields are burned every night. Finally, a shepherd with dogs keeps watch, and catches the "Hairy Man" who is responsible. The King puts him in a cage. The Hairy Man pleads with the King's son so earnestly that the young prince frees him. For this, the King orders that his son be taken to the forest and killed, and that his lungs and liver be brought back as proof. The man who takes him can not do it and kills an old sick dog instead. The boy wanders the forest. Years later, he comes upon a cottage, where the Hairy Man lives. There he stays for seven years, working hard like a peasant, but never complaining until he is old enough to travel on. Before he leaves, the Hairy Man gives the boy a golden apple (which magically contains a golden staff and a golden-maned horse), a silver apple (which contains a silver staff and an army of hussars), and a copp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerrino And The Savage Man
Guerrino and the Savage Man is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in '' The Facetious Nights of Straparola''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 502, and the oldest known written variant of it.Paul Delarue, ''The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales'', p 384, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956 Other tales of this type include ''Iron John'' and '' Georgic and Merlin''. Synopsis A king, Filippomaria, had an only son, Guerrino. One day, while hunting, the king captured a wild man. Imprisoning him, he gave the keys to the queen. He set out hunting again, and Guerrino wanted to see the wild man. The wild man stole an arrow he carried and promised to give it back if Guerrino freed him. Guerrino did so and warned him to flee; the wild man told him that he would and left. (The wild man in fact had been a handsome youth who had despaired of the love of a lady and so took to the wild.) The queen woke and questioned everyone. Guerrino told her that no one wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron John
"Iron John" (AKA "Iron Hans" or "Der Eisenhans") is a German fairy tale found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm, tale number 136, about a wild iron-skinned man and a prince. The original German title is ''Eisenhans'', a compound of ''Eisen'' "iron" and '' Hans'' (like English ''John'', a common short form of the personal name Johannes). It represents Aarne–Thompson type 502, "The wild man as a helper".D.L. Ashliman,The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"/ref> Most people see the story as a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood. The story also became the basis for the book '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' by Robert Bly which spawned the mythopoetic men's movement in the early 1990s after spending 62 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Origin According to the Brothers Grimm, the source of ''Eisern Hans'', in their compilation, was tale nr. 17 from Friedmund von Arnim's book. Synopsis A King sends a huntsman int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stith Thompson
Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the '' Motif-Index of Folk-Literature'', a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Biography Early life Stith Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky, on March 7, 1885 the son of John Warden and Eliza (McClaskey). Thompson moved with his family to Indianapolis at the age of twelve and attended Butler University from 1903 to 1905 before he obtained his BA degree from University of Wisconsin in 1909 (his undergraduate thesis was titled, 'The Return from the Dead in Popular Tales and Ballads'). For the next two years he taught at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, during which time he learned Norwegian from lumberjacks. He earned his master's degree in English lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studia Mythologica Slavica
''Studia mythologica Slavica'' is a Slovene academic journal dedicated to ethnology, history, archaeology, linguistics, religious studies, literary history and philosophy in the context of Slavic mythology. Published since 1998 by the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts (ZRC SAZU)) and the University of Udine. The journal is a annual published in print and online. Articles are published in all Slavic languages, in English, German and Italian. The main goal of the journal is to present comparative research that presents Slavic culture in the broader context of European and non-European cultures. The journal also encourages the study of contemporary phenomena of spiritual, social and material culture and their transformations. Editorial Team ; Editors-in-Chief * dr. Monika Kropej Telban (ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology) * dr. Katja Hrobat Virloget (University of Primorska, Faculty of Huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speak, Bird, Speak Again
''Speak, Bird, Speak Again: A book of Palestinian folk tales'' is a book first published in English in 1989 by Palestinian people, Palestinian authors Ibrahim Muhawi and professor of sociology and anthropology at Bir Zeit University Sharif Kanaana. After the original English book of 1989, a French version, published by UNESCO, followed in 1997, and an Arabic one in Lebanon in 2001. The book contains a collection of 45 Palestinian folk tales drawn from a collection of two hundred tales narrated by women from different areas of the region of Palestine (region), Palestine (the Galilee, the West Bank, and Gaza City, Gaza). The stories collected were chosen on the basis of their popularity, their aesthetic and narrative qualities, and what they tell about popular Palestinian culture dating back many centuries. The authors spent 30 years collecting the material for the book. The English version of the book is studied as part of literature courses at both University of California at B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Muhawi
Ibrahim Muhawi (born 1937, ar, إبراهيم مهوي) is a Palestinian academic and writer, specializing in Palestinian and Arabic literature, folklore and translation. He is a member of the Palestinian diaspora.Ibrahim Muhawi,’Translation and the Palestinian Diaspora,’ in Abbas Shiblak (ed.) ''Translation and the Palestinian Diaspora:Challenges of Dual Identity and Adaptation,'' Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Refugee and Diaspora Studies, No.2, 6 May 2000 pp. 117-121 Career Muhawi was born in Ramallah in 1937 to a Palestinian Christian Arab family. and, after graduating from the Friends Boys' School in that city, he transferred to the United States in 1959, settling in San Francisco.where he gained a degree in electrical engineering at Heald Engineering College. Drawn to literature in the meantime, he took out a B.A. in English (1964: magna cum laude) from California State University at Hayward , and went on to obtain an M.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. (1969), in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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