Showing posts with label Seers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seers. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Reading Grimm's Fairy Tale The Crystal Ball

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Thinking About the Future: a Riddle Inside a Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma Thinking About the Future in Fairy Tales: an Egg Yolk, Wrapped ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Future in Fairy Tales: the Prophesiers

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The Future in Fairy Tales The Prophesiers: Newsy Norns and Wee Wives In ancient Germanic mythology, prophesy and magic were most often ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Legend of Saint Meinrad and his Ravens

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‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. (Othello) In this legend from Switzerland, a saint acquires the gift of second sight through pray...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Of Preeners and Prognosticators: The Bird, Who Tells the Truth

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The Bird, Who Tells the Truth, a Fairy Tale from the Rhaeto-Romansh Region of Switzerland One morning a miller found a large and heavy ch...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Animal Prognosticators in Fairy Tales: The Goose Girl

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The Future in Fairy Tales: Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 89: The Goose Girl There once lived a queen who was no longer very young; her...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Grimm's Fairy Tale of the Crystal Ball

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Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 197: The Crystal Ball There once lived a sorceress, she had three sons who were filled with brotherly love for eac...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Divining the Future in Fairy Tales: Crystal Ball Gazing

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The future casts long shadows on these fairy tale characters. Grimm’s Saga No. 119: Crystal Ball Gazi ng A noble and beautiful m...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Icelandic Voice in Fairy Tales and Saga

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The importance of seeing the future. Of all the fairy tale genres presented on this website, the Icelandic form is most interest...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Where is the Sooth in Soothsaying? The Finns as Skilled Fairy Tale Prognosticators

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Part II: Finn-magic. Ingimund commences the trip to Iceland . King Harold had retired, the mightiest of all kings in the Nor...
Monday, January 18, 2010

The Past, Present and Future in Fairy Tales and the Reluctant Fairy Tale Hero

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Themes: The Finnwife as prognosticator and the Finns themselves as powerful seers. Destiny versus fortune. Things that can versus thi...