juni 24, 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 [...]
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 13, 2019 7 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (7): The rescue by the vultures The rescue by birds, who take the body of our trapped hero for bait, can already be seen in the 35th story of [...]
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. [...]
april 25, 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (5): Hiding in an animal-skin The trick of hiding in an animal-skin is well known from the medieval romance of Herzog Ernst, written [...]
april 16, 2019 8 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (4): The Jewel Mountain In the third part of the Bororo tale the hero is tricked by his father onto a high cliff from whence he [...]
april 7, 2019 10 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (3): Excursus | The Retrieval of the Disappeared Musical Instruments by Gilgamesh The story of the retrieval of the stolen musical instruments from the Underworld is an old one, already to be [...]
maart 26, 2019 15 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (2): B The dangerous assignments [I have made no additions to this text.] The boy persecuted by his father, who tries to kill his son by [...]
maart 13, 2019 23 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (1): Introduction A few years ago I made a study of myth in combination with folktales using the series of books by [...]