6 maart 2020 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (25): The Battle of the Animals and the Birds | Etana and the eagle (2) Sofia Malkhasian – Vasilisa The Wise The theme of the flight on the Eagle is part of a Siberian myth [...]
15 februari 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 [...]
17 januari 2020 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (23): The Grateful Animal | Manu’s Fish The story of the feather of the bird is also to be seen in a different context. In a Finnish tale, called [...]
2 januari 2020 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (22): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (4) + PDF That Johanan understood the language of animals is a motif also present in a Greek version (of ATU 531), [...]
12 december 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, [...]
6 december 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, [...]
20 november 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 [...]
27 oktober 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (18): The Stolen Eyes (ATU 321) The cave or hole, wherein the boy in the Greek version ‘The Church and the Bird Nightingale’ seeks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]