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The tale of the mandarin ducks
A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.
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\Like a Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm\: Complex Weather Systems through the Lens of Folk Belief and Language
This article discusses the mechanisms by which empirical observations of the natural world inform folk beliefs and superstitions. Using beliefs and traditional expressions about the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) in Western Europe and America as a case study, the article examines the intersection between science and the supernatural and the ways in which magical thinking can transform these observations into folklore.
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Balut: \Fertilized Duck Eggs and Their Role in Filipino Culture\
Magat attempts to illustrate how the consumption of balut, a fertilized duck egg, by Filipinos and other Asian Americans can reveal the interplay between food, beliefs, culture, and history. By highlighting the history of balut, she further explores what it is in balut that makes eating it desirable.
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THE YARNSPINNER IN KENTUCKY
Leonard Roberts, a tireless collector of old-fashioned folktales in eastern Kentucky, contributed “Polly, Nancy, and Muncimeg” to the 1955 volume ofKentucky Folklore Record, and thereby illustrated the problem of identifying Kentucky tales. In his note on the tale, Roberts indicated that he had collected it from Tom Couch, age ninety-two, in Harlan County. After recording the Tom Couch version (in writing because there was no electricity for a tape recorder), Roberts tape-recorded a version from Tom’s son Jim, age fifty-two.
The tale is about three girls who receive an inheritance. Two of the girls receive the valuable property, while
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HAWAIIAN STANDING KĀHILI IN THE BISHOP MUSEUM: AN ETHNOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Examines a project to identify the biological components of kahili preserved in the Bishop Museum, to determine techniques of construction and reassess their ethnohistorical significance. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Tales from the Missouri French
In the Sainte Genevieve district of Missouri, a triangle of land west of the Mississippi River and southeast of the Meramec, French was widely spoken until sometime in the mid-twentieth century. The inhabitants are descendants of the earliest French settlers in what is now the United States. Enterprising explorers and entrepreneurs moved across Lower Canada and down through what is now Indiana and Illinois, finally establishing their first town west of the Missouri in 1735 and naming it Sainte Genevieve after the apocryphal saint whose story is told in chapter 7. They came to this area to mine lead, staying
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THE WILD DUCK AND ROSMERSHOLM
Though myth dominates some of Ibsen’s earlier plays and can be found to be implicit even in those of his “realistic” period, it does become displaced behind a facade of direct concern with social problems in the plays fromThe League of YouththroughAn Enemy of the People(with the exception ofEmperor and Galilean).An Enemy of the Peoplewas, however, the last play in which Ibsen dealt directly and primarily with a social problem; it can be regarded as the last of his polemical plays.¹ It is perhaps significant that the playwright has Dr. Stockmann specifically reject
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