januari 2, 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), [...]
december 15, 2019 0 Calvin Tomkins – Living Well Is the Best Revenge Gerald and Sara Murphy, the couple who inspired F Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night” (foto Mark [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 14, 2019 2 Amazing Polly – Epstein and Mad Scientists + Brianna Nofil – CIA’S EXPERIMENTS WITH MK + George Pendle – Rocket Scientist + Kenneth Anger – Inauguration of The Pleasure Dome (1954) Jeffrey Epstein and Mad Scientists In the 1st half I go over Epstein’s Foundation and its investments into [...]
mei 7, 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (6): Alexander and the Valley of Diamonds A story from the Arabian writer Meisami (12th c.) connects Alexander with the story of the jewel-mountain. [...]
april 16, 2019 8 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (4): The Jewel Mountain In the third part of the Bororo tale the hero is tricked by his father onto a high cliff from whence he [...]
april 7, 2019 10 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (3): Excursus | The Retrieval of the Disappeared Musical Instruments by Gilgamesh The story of the retrieval of the stolen musical instruments from the Underworld is an old one, already to be [...]