Archetypes and motifs in folklore and literature; a handbook.GR72 2004-009103 0-7656-1260-7 Archetypes and motifs in folklore folklore, the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition. It includes folk dances, folk songs, folk medicine (the use of magical charms and herbs), and folktales (myths, rhymes, and proverbs). and literature; a handbook. Title main entry. Ed. by Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy. M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [c]2005 515 p. $110.00 US scholars of folklore, anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture. , and literature introduce Stith Thompson's seminal seminal /sem·i·nal/ (sem´i-n'l) pertaining to semen or to a seed. sem·i·nal adj. Of, relating to, containing, or conveying semen or seed. Motif-Index of Folk Literature (1932-36, second edition 1955-58) by presenting essays on some of the most important motifs and archetypes found in folklore and literature around the world, keying them to the Index. Among the motifs are mythical myth·i·cal also myth·ic adj. 1. Of or existing in myth: the mythical unicorn. 2. Imaginary; fictitious. 3. animals, tabu, magic, the dead, marvels, ogres, tests, the wise and the foolish, deceptions, reversal of fortune, chance and fate, society, rewards and punishments, captives and fugitives, unnatural cruelty Cruelty See also Brutality. Achren mean, spiteful enchantress of Spiral Castle. [Children’s Lit.: The Castle of Llyr] Allan, Barbara spurned her dying sweetheart because of a fancied slight. [Br. , sex, and the nature of life. A sampling of specific topics shows the fight of the gods and giants, Motif A162.1; magic bodily members: human eye and hand, Motif D990; and conception and birth, Motifs T500-T599. |
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