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, [...]
december 6, 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (20): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (2) In the German version (of ATU 531) ‘The Key’ Hans, flying on his grey through the clouds, sees a bird, [...]
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 [...]
september 22, 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 [...]
september 9, 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 [...]
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 [...]
juli 11, 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 [...]
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 [...]