19 januari 2020 0 Cor Hendriks – The Riddle What Women Desire: King Arthur and the Quest for the Red Pill Carl Benjamin, the outspoken commentator of the YouTube channel Akkad Daily, made recently a video, called [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]