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Grateful Dead (folklore)
Grateful dead (or grateful ghost) is both a motif and a group of related folktales present in many cultures throughout the world. The most common story involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial, typically stemming from an unpaid debt. The traveler then either pays off the dead person's debt or pays for burial. The traveler is later rewarded or has his life saved by a person or animal who is actually the soul of the dead person; the grateful dead is a form of the donor. The grateful dead spirit may take many different physical forms including that of a guardian angel, animal, or fellow traveler. The traveler's encounter with the deceased comes near the end of the traveler's journey. Classification The "grateful dead" story is Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 505. Folkloristic scholarship classifies ATU types 505–508 under the umbrella term ''the Grateful Dead'', each subtype referring to a certain aspect of the legend: ATU 505: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobit Burying The Dead MET DT6144
Tobit may refer to * The Book of Tobit, a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, or its principal character * Tobit model, an econometric model for censored endogenous variables proposed by James Tobin * Tobit Raphael, American actor * Tobi Brown, known as TBJZL (born 1993), English YouTuber See also *Tobitt {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurjen Van Der Kooi
Jurjen van der Kooi ( Hurdegaryp, 22 December 1943 – Drachten, 4 September 2018) was a Dutch university lecturer and folklorist from Frisia. He was widely recognized as an authority in the field of folk tales from Frisia, Northern Netherlands and parts of northern Germany. Life and career Van der Kooi was born in 1943 in Hurdegaryp. He studied literature and until his retirement in 2004 was head lecturer and associate professor of folklore and oral literature at the University of Groningen. In that capacity he was also active as a scientific researcher of folk tales from the Northern Netherlands, Eastern Netherlands and parts of northern Germany. In 1984, he obtained his doctorate cum laude on ''Volksverhalen in Friesland: Lectuur en Mondelinge Overlevering.'' The central point of that thesis was Van der Kooi's statement that many folktales in Frisia have not been handed down from parent to parent for centuries, but actually often go back to (written) publications from the nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donor (fairy Tale)
In fairy tales, a donor is a character who tests the hero (and sometimes other characters as well) and provides magical assistance to the hero upon their success. The fairy godmother is a well-known form of this character. Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales; these include various kinds of animals and the spirit of a dead mother. In fairy tale and legend In his analysis of fairy tales, Vladimir Propp identified this role as the ''donor'' and listed it as one of the seven roles found in fairy tales. Before giving the hero magical support or advice, the donor may also test the hero, by questioning him, setting him tasks, or making requests of him. Then, the donor may directly give the hero a magical agent, advise him on how to find one, or offer to act on his behalf. If the character itself acts on behalf of the hero, it also takes on the role of ''helper'' in Propp's analysis. Because a donor is defined by acts, other characters may fill the role, even the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Hall Gerould
Gordon Hall Gerould (1877 – April 10, 1953) was an American philologist and folklorist of the United States. Biography Born in Goffstown, New Hampshire, he joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College and was a professor of English at Princeton University. In 1910 he married fellow writer Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould. He served in the U.S. Army, holding the rank of captain in 1918. Selected bibliography * ''The North England Homily Collection'' (1902) * ''Sir Guy of Warwick'' (1905) * ''Selected Essays of Fielding'' (1905) * ''The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story'' (1908) * ''Saints' Legends'' (1916) * ''Peter Sanders, Retired'' (1920) * ''The Ballad of Tradition'' (1932) References Biographical noteGordon Hall Gerould Papers, 1904-1953, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library Princeton University Library is the main library system of Princeton University. With holdings of more than 7 million books, 6 million mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divide And Choose
Divide and choose (also cut and choose or I cut, you choose) is a procedure for fair division of a continuous resource between two parties. It involves a heterogeneous good or resource and two partners who have different preferences over parts of the cake (both want as much of it as possible). The procedure proceeds as follows: one person divides the resource into two pieces; the other person selects one of the pieces; the cutter receives the remaining piece. Since ancient times some have used the procedure to divide land, food and other resources between two parties. Currently, there is an entire field of research, called fair cake-cutting, devoted to various extensions and generalizations of cut-and-choose. Divide and choose is envy-free in the following sense: each of the two partners can act in a way that guarantees that, according to their own subjective taste, their allocated share is at least as valuable as the other share, regardless of what the other partner does. Desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tournament (medieval)
A tournament, or tourney (from Old French ''torneiement'', ''tornei''), was a mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages">Mock_combat.html" ;"title="chivalry">chivalrous competition or Mock combat">mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries), and is a type of hastilude. Tournaments included Melee, mêlée, hand-to-hand combat, contests of strength or History of archery, accuracy, and sometimes Jousting, jousts. Some considered the tournaments to be frivolous pursuits of celebrity, even a potential threat to public order. But the shows were popular and often put on in honor of coronations, marriages, or births; to celebrate recent conquests or peace treatises; or to welcome ambassadors, lords, or others considered to be of great importance. Other times tournaments were held for no particular reason at all, simply for entertainment. Certain tournaments are depicted throughout the ''Codex Manesse''. Etymology The word ''tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amadas
''Amadas'', or ''Sir Amadace'' is a medieval English chivalric romance, one of the rare ones for which there is neither a known nor a conjectured French original,Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p73 New York Burt Franklin,1963 like '' Sir Eglamour of Artois''. The hero shares a name but no more with the romance '' Amadas et Idoine''. Manuscripts The tale is found in two medieval manuscripts: National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.3.1, dating to the late-fifteenth century and the slightly earlier Taylor MS 9, otherwise known as MS Ireland Blackburn in the Robert H Taylor Collection, Princeton University Libraries, dating to the mid-fifteenth century. Both manuscripts are incomplete, missing the opening lines of the poem.Foster, Edward E (Ed). 1997. ''Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle and Sir Amadace''. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute PublicationsIntroductionto TEAMS Middle English text. Synopsis Sir Amadas wastes his p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chivalric Romance
As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. It developed further from the epics as time went on; in particular, "the emphasis on love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the ''chanson de geste'' and other kinds of epic, in which masculine military heroism predominates." Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric, or burlesque intent. Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but by they were out of fashion, and Miguel de Cervantes famously burlesqued them in his novel ''Don Quixote''. Still, the modern image of "medieval" is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the word ''medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Peele
George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed, but not universally accepted, collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play ''Titus Andronicus''. Many anonymous Elizabethan plays have been attributed to him, but his reputation rests mainly on ''Edward I'', '' The Old Wives' Tale'', '' The Battle of Alcazar'', ''The Arraignment of Paris'', and '' David and Bethsabe''. ''The Troublesome Reign of King John, The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England'', the immediate source for Shakespeare's ''King John (play), King John'', has been published under his name. Life Peele was christened on 25 July 1556 at St James Garlickhythe in the City of London. His father, James Peele (died 30 December 1585), who appears to have belonged to a Devonshire family, was clerk of Christ's Hospital, a school which was then situated in central London. He wrote two treatises on bookkeeping, ''The Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Wives' Tale (play)
''The Old Wives' Tale'' is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time. Although only the titles of most of these popular works have survived, they seem to be unrelated composites of popular romantic and fairy-tale motifs of the era. They were full of romantic inventions but devoid of moral content. Peele here presents an amiably ironic and exaggerated version of such a play. ''The Old Wives' Tale'' uses the device of a play within a play to add to the confusion. Peele's version, however, was more carefully composed than similar works of the period. He distilled the romantic and fairy-tale, but he was also able to create detachment; the audience became aware of its taste for the pure romance of the fairy-tale. Some critics regard the play as intentional satire constructed to highlight generic absurdities. Peele's other plays employed a similar structure. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
