10 oktober 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (17): The Golden Bird The motif of the feather that fell from the Phoenix is very well known in folktales. It can be found in the [Lees verder]
22 september 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (16): The Phoenix The phoenix is lucky, may you be too. Graffiti from Pompeii Butterworth & Laurence 2006, p. 341 In The [Lees verder]
9 september 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (15): Fabulous Birds & The Bet with King Solomon Clouston treats in a short space the bird Roc (Rûkh), Garuda of the Hindus, Eorosh of the Zend, Simurgh of [Lees verder]
24 augustus 2019 6 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (14): The Eagle and the Snake in AT 301 (conclusion) In the Midrash Kohelet there is a story about a man returning from Babylon, who sees two birds quarrel, one [Lees verder]
12 augustus 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (13): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 (the wonderful cure of the hero) The episode with the eagle is also a part of the Kirgizian epos Er Töstük, reviewed by Karl Reichl in his [Lees verder]
29 juli 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (12): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 The scene of the hero in the bird’s nest is also a feature of versions of ATU 301. In the versions we saw [Lees verder]
11 juli 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (11): The Bird-Nester Lévi-Strauss calls his first paragraph ‘The Bird-Nester’s Aria’ (aria, because he compares his opus [Lees verder]
24 juni 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (10): Return, recognition and revenge Because of the threat of his treacherous brothers the hero in ATU 301 after his return from the underworld [Lees verder]
11 juni 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (9): Stuck on an island Being stuck on an island and rescued by a bird is an important part of the ‘Grateful Dead’-theme, grouped [Lees verder]