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Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion is a unique account of the living spirituality and mysticism of fairyfolk in Ireland. Fairyfolk are fairyminded people who have had direct experiences with the divine energy and appearance of fairies, and fairypeople, who additionally know that they have been reincarnated from the Fairy Realm. While fairies have been folklore, superstition, or fantasy for most children and adults, now for the first time in a scholarly ...

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MacDonald, George, --- Author of Dealings with fairies, --- Author of Ranald Bannerman, --- Dealings with fairies, Author of, --- Mac Donald, George, --- Ranald Bannerman, Author of, --- מקדונלד, ג׳ורג׳ --- Criticism and interpretation. --- MacDonald, Geo.,

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What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say “troll”? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each case the author is not the least concerned with how the paranormal functions within medieval society and in the minds of the individuals who encounter and experience it and go on to narrate these experiences through intermediaries. The author connects the paranormal encounter closely with fears and these fears are intertwined with various aspects of the human experience, including gender, family ties, and death. The Troll Inside You hovers over the boundaries of scholarship and literature. Its aim is to prick and provoke but above all to challenge its audience to reconsider some of their preconceived ideas about the medieval past.

Norse religion & mythology --- Old Norse literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- Trolls. --- Trulls --- Fairies --- Icelandic and Old Norse literature --- Old Norse literature --- History and criticism. --- medieval mythology --- Iceland --- monster theory --- trolls --- Norse mythology

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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those

Garden ornaments and furniture. --- Follies (Architecture) --- Hermitages. --- Hermits. --- Gnomes. --- Fairies --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- Cells of hermits --- Hermits' cells --- Hermits --- Monasteries --- Follies --- Folly (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Pavilions --- Garden fixtures --- Decoration and ornament --- Garden structures --- Outdoor furniture

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This fully illustrated volume, including an eight-page colour-plate section, is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture ( bugei ) of Muromachi Japan (1336-1573). According to Roald Knutsen, who is widely known for his writings on the samurai tradition, prompting his life-long study of tengu – the part-human, part-animal creatures – was the early discovery that the tengu of the Muromachi period were interacting with the deadly serious bugei masters teaching the arts of war. Here were beings who did not conform to the comic, goblin-like creatures of common folklore and were not the creations of the Buddhist priests intent on demonizing that which they did not understand and could not control. As this study shows, the part-hidden tengu under review passed on and taught the clearest theory of tactics and strategy to bushi of the highest calibre, the absorption and mastery of which often decided if the warrior and his clan lived or were annihilated on the all-too-frequent killing grounds of the Muromachi age. Tengu will be widely welcomed in many contexts including studies relating to martial arts, religion and folklore, shamanism and mythology, and the social and military history of Japan.

Tengu. --- Shamanism --- Martial arts --- Religions --- Long-nosed goblin --- Tengu (Japanese goblin) --- Fairies --- Ghouls and ogres --- History. --- Japan --- Social life and customs --- Nationalism --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Nationalisme --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- History --- Histoire --- Germany --- Japon --- Allemagne --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures