20 februari 2020 1 Cor Hendriks – De vliegende heks (8): De Grote Sprong (slot) Het snelle reizen van heiligen wordt vaak gemeld. Johannes Teutonicus, een canon van Halberstadt, was zo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
15 december 2019 0 Calvin Tomkins – Living Well Is the Best Revenge Gerald Murphy – Razor Joel Remy – Hommage to Gerald Murphy (gif Giphy) Gerald and Sara Murphy, [...]
4 december 2019 0 Henry Makow – Was Baron William de Ropp Hitler’s British handler? “When Churchill was questioned in Parliament about British failure to support [German army efforts to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]