december 7, 2019 0 Freedom Bunker – George H. Walker Bush: the Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Gangs Donald Trump has offered to intervene in Mexico, that is “to go after the Drug Cartels” following “the [...]
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, [...]
november 20, 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 [...]
oktober 27, 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
augustus 12, 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 [...]
juli 29, 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 [...]
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 [...]