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Published: 2016-02
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ISBN-13: 9781438007946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Create artwork inspired by the world. Pharaohs, peacocks, dream catchers, and more cultural motifs are just waiting for your splash of color. Once completed, they are ideal for decorating, framing, and gift-giving." --
Author: Jane Garry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1351576151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.
Author: Kristin Omdahl
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781984056146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the magical world of motifs with Kristin Omdahl. Choose from 17 gorgeous knit and crochet shawls, cowls and bags. Learn a variety of motifs, construction styles with charts, line by line instructions, and find a massive library of supplemental stitch videos & more at KristinOmdahl.com
Author: Ernest W. Baughman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 685
ISBN-13: 3111402770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodney Lawrence Thomas
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-06-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0567226867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRodney Thomas considers whether Revelation was written as an 'anti-magical' polemic, and explores the concept and definition of 'magic' from both modern and first-century standpoints.
Author: Reginetta Haboucha
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 131754935X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many years of fieldwork and extensive archival investigations in Spain, Israel and the United States, the author has brought together and analysed a massive body of primary sources. This is the first collection of Sephardic narratives offered to the English-speaking reader, and constitutes an important addition to the understanding of Sephardic cultural tradition.
Author: Dolores G. Kamrada
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0567662381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKamrada's study analyses three narratives concerning the greatest heroic figures of the biblical tradition: Jephthah's daughter, Samson and Saul, and includes a consideration of texts about King David. All three characters are portrayed as the greatest and most typical and exemplary heroes of the heroic era. All three heroes have an exceptionally close relationship with the deity all die a traditionally heroic, tragic death. Kamrada argues that within the Book of Judges and the biblical heroic tradition, Jephthah's daughter and Samson represent the pinnacle of female and male heroism respectively, and that they achieve super-human status by offering their lives to the deity, thus entering the sphere of holiness. Saul's trajectory, by contrast, exemplifies downfall of a great hero in his final, irreversible separation from God, and it also signals the decline of the heroic era. David, however, is shown as an astute hero who founds a lasting dynasty, thus conclusively bringing the heroic era in the Deuteronomistic history to a close.
Author: Inger Margrethe Boberg
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-03-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0226639983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a collection of over fifty Gaelic folktales from the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission including tales of kings and warriors, pagans and Christians, and stories about historical Irish characters.
Author: Michael D. Swartz
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 3161550021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In this volume, Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism and their function in religion and history. Based on the author's studies over the past few decades, he proposes innovative methods for the study of these two phenomena. The author focuses especially on the rituals of early Jewish magic and mysticism, their social contexts, and the textual dimension of this complex literature. He also offers introductions to these phenomena. Michael D. Swartz argues that the authors of these texts employed intricate technologies, literary and artistic forms, and physical practices to negotiate between the values and world-views of their cultures and the texture of everyday life.
