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    The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which...
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    over the swan maidens, causing him to lose his power over them and he dies. In an apotheosis, they, who transform back into regular maidens, watch as...
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    an enchanted forest where he encounters a mysterious woman (clearly a swan maiden or fairy) in the act of bathing, while clutching a gold necklace. They...
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  • his wife after stealing her clothes. The tale has been compared to the swan maiden, a character from Eurasian tales that appears in a similar narrative...
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  • flight upon the Gods in § Germanic mythology and legend, including the § Swan maidens account. In medieval Ireland, the chief poet (filí or ollam) was entitled...
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  • Sterope Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human to swan Caladrius (Roman) – white bird with healing...
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    Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely...
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    Tennin (category Swan maidens)
    the Looking Glass List of angels in theology Nymph Selkie (seal maidens) Swan maiden Valkyries "Devas". Learn Religions. Retrieved 2024-11-06. "对"天人合一、道法自然"的洞天福地"...
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  • "The Swan Queen" is a Lithuanian fairy tale related to the character of the swan maiden. In the tale, a peasant couple find a swan or goose and bring...
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    ("The Swan Maiden"): a poor human youth is directed to the place where supernatural women bathe by a cow or a deer; the women may be Swan Maidens, a celestial...
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    Leavy, Barbara Fass (1994). "Urvaśī and the Swan Maidens: The Runaway Wife". In Search of the Swan Maiden. NYU Press. pp. 33–63. ISBN 978-0-8147-5268-5...
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  • Goose Wife (Inuit) (category Swan maidens)
    the swan maiden, which appears across Eurasia in several mythologies. The main plot points between both stories are that a flock of bird women (swans or...
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    winter with high snowfall. There is a small lake which is famous for a Swan Maiden legend. "市町村合併情報 滋賀県 <国土地理協会>". Archived from the original on June 17...
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  • The Green Man of Knowledge (category Swan maidens)
    with the character of the swan maiden. In the same vein, William Bernard McCarthy reported that in Irish tradition the swan maiden is frequently appears in...
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    Hagoromo (play) (category Swan maidens)
    most-performed Japanese Noh plays. It is an example of the traditional swan maiden motif. The earliest recorded version of the legend dates to the eighth...
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    [Series: Comparative Studies of the Folktale (2) Tennin Nyoobo/The Swan Maiden]. In: The Seijo Bungei: the Seijo University arts and literature quarterly...
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    folktales. These stories of selkie-wives are also recognized to be of the swan maiden motif type. There are now hundreds of seal bride type tales that have...
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    feed it. When the son grows of age he takes care of his blind mother. Swan maiden Yuki-onna Hagoromo (play) Seki, Keigo (1963). Folktales of Japan. University...
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    Völundarkviða (category Swan maidens)
    younger than the verse. The poem opens by describing the flight of three swan-maidens identified in stanza 1 as meyjar, drósir, alvitr and suðrœnar ('young...
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    that woman will become the hero to defeat the monster. The theme of the swan-maiden, which perhaps occurs in parts of Polynesia and widely in Indonesia,...
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    commentary and glossary. “Etain’s Two Husbands: The Swan Maiden’s Choice.” In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender, by Barbara Fass...
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    The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise (category Swan maidens)
    white bird": 'swan', 'spoonbill' (although he disagreed with this one), 'Swan-Maiden', 'Swan-Maiden (in fairy tales)' and 'young female swan' (which he considered...
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    Rus' legend based on the original depiction of the Greek sirens. The swan maidens in the folktales of cultures such as Sweden, Germany, Romania, Serbia...
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    captor. This is commonly recognized as the "feather garment" motif in swan maiden-type tales. The cohuleen druith was also considered to be of red color...
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    Hassan of Basra (category Swan maidens)
    of Khorassan. The tale is related to the international cycle of the swan maiden, a creature that alternates between human and avian forms, and to tale...
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  • Asia. The tale is also considered to be a version of the international "swan maiden" narrative. The tale originated within the people of the Dai ethnic group...
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  • horn. The Super Readers then jump into "The Swan Maiden" book where a prince doesn't want for Swan Maiden to leave and keeps hiding her feathers. 62 62...
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  • in modern Greek folktales as a kind of supernatural wife, akin to the swan maiden, and gives its name to the homonymous type in the Catalogue of Greek...
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    Serbian epic poetry. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 400*, "The Swan Maiden", and as Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index (ATU) type 400, "The Quest for the...
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    The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often...
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