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]
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 [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]
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 [Lees verder]
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 [Lees verder]
24 juni 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 [Lees verder]