15 maart 2020 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (26): The Herculean Tasks and the Magic Flight [cf ATU 313B] (1) In the RUssian tale of ‘Vassilissa the Wise’ Ivan, the son of the merchant, goes on his way to the Tsar [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
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), [Lees verder]
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, [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]