februari 15, 2020 1 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (24): The Battle of the Animals and the Birds | Etana and the eagle In the Estonian tale ‘The Knight’s Son’, a sparrow and a rat, two inseparable friends, emigrate and [...]
december 12, 2019 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (21): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (3) A quite different version of the story of the golden feather has been collected from Jews in the USSR, [...]
november 20, 2019 3 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (19): The Magic Horse ATU 531 (1) The story of the stolen eyes can serve as the beginning of a new tale (ATU 531), in the German version ‘The [...]
oktober 10, 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 [...]
augustus 24, 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 [...]
augustus 12, 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 [...]
juli 29, 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 [...]
juni 11, 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 [...]
mei 22, 2019 7 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (8): The Flight on the Eagle in ATU 301 The story told by Konon is part of a series of stories Panzer collected for his research into the folktale [...]
mei 7, 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (6): Alexander and the Valley of Diamonds A story from the Arabian writer Meisami (12th c.) connects Alexander with the story of the jewel-mountain. [...]