Sentences with word «folktale»

Then, we have stories from Patricia Glinton - Meicholas, Bahamian Author of An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas.

Indebted to the long history of folktales in China, Ji is inspired by the tall tales and ghost stories that he has gathered in the Chinese countryside.

But Ocean Meets Sky also pulls from folktales in the way that readers experience the story itself.

Joan Lee finds comfort in a traditional Chinese folktale about a kingfisher trapped in human form as she struggles to live with a foot in two worlds and deal with hostility.

Rafael Motamayor chats with writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez, and stars Carla Gugino and Abbey Lee on folktales, directing your partner, fainting in the theater and more... Where did you get the idea for Elizabeth Harvest?

Included: Activities that involve students in creating glossaries, reading and writing folktales, growing foods popular in Hispanic cultures, and much more!

Head into Snæfellsjökull National Park and listen to local folktales as we hike the Arnarstapi - Hellnar Trail, with striking views of unusual lava formations.

The books draw from the traditional folktales of West Bengal, India and follow the interdimensional adventures of a 12 - year - old girl who finds out she's an Indian princess destined to slay blood - thirsty rakkhosh demons.

Six Art and Poetry Books, The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales by Ashley Bryan, inscribed by the author; Philip Guston, an exhibition catalogue from Marlborough Gallery, New More...

One morning we were discussing an African folktale in which a woman gives birth to six children, all of whom are stillborn.

Young's spare, sweeping brush strokes capture the dignity and spirit of Casanova's retelling of a poignant but ultimately uplifting Chinese folktale in which a hunter must sacrifice himself to save the people of his village.

Simon Starling's film Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) critiques Moore's advocacy of nuclear energy by inserting him into a Japanese folktale about deceit and betrayal.

The new England folktale, written and directed by Robert Eggers, was dubbed one of the standout films at this year's Sundance Festival, where it not only won him the Directing Award in the US Dramatic category, but also saw Taylor - Joy being hailed as a breakout star and one to watch.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

Lushly illustrated, this will be a sparkling treasure for folktale collections.

If there is justice in the universe, Stanton and Judge Hoskins will meet in the Home Run Derby final, and they'll be responsible for folktales that are told after the collapse of civilization.

This latest exhibition features Inez's work from Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.

OPENING Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid: Sixteen artists interpret Jewis

This Russian folktale tells of an old woman who was too busy to travel with the three kings to find the Christ child.

The historical record of the Red Riding Hood - like folktales may be spotty, but researchers have amassed a large collection of the contemporary variations.

The Armoire — a tense and creepy gothic point and click adventure adapted from a medieval French folktale called Barbe Bleue, in which you play a newlywed bride who starts exploring her husbands mansion while he sleeps one night.

Infected with folktales, steeped in poetry, A Fort of Nine Towers is a life - affirming triumph.

In a classic folktale, a gluttonous jackal works his way from a few fish all the way to an elephant, until his tummy bursts, disgorging the lot, who waste no time taking revenge with a rhyming taunt.

I take Job 3 - 42:6 to be an exilic composition inserted in a traditional folktale which now frames the encounter of Job with his three friends and with God.

Meanwhile, Ghibli's latest animated release turns an old folktale into something truly epic.

as Amazon's book description notes, adding: «It was Paul Bunyan, of course, America's finest, fastest, funniest lumberman and favorite folktale hero!»

Suggested Reading One Thousand and One Nights Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions A. S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul; The Black Book Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh Jane Smiley, Ten Days in the Hills

An array of independent comics writers and artists present a panoply of Native American folktales centering on the trickster archetype.

The traditional Balinese folktales range from local tales to fables which are taken from Tantri story, transferred from older generation to the younger one every night before the young soundly asleep.

So i hardly think their opinion on fictional folktales characters matters much beyon explaining their bigotry and mysogeny.

Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

I think he is being courageous,» counters Nigel J. H. Smith, a geographer at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has traveled widely in the Amazon collecting folktales and legends — including those of the mapinguari — which he describes in his book The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories From a Vanishing World.

In March of 2017, Chef Todd took his vast experience and personality to beautiful Folktale Winery in Carmel Valley where he oversees all of the Culinary Operations as VP / Culinary Director.

Have your class play the award - winning Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, a fairy tale that relies on cooperative play; Never Alone, based on an Alaska Native folktale; or Journey, which puts players on the monomyth quest.

Chittaprosad, Illustration for «Brahm Daitya ki Mukti; An Old Bengali Folktale» Haftawar Bulletin (February 1, 1964), Collection of Ashish Anand, New Delhi, installation view, Neue Galerie, Kassel, documenta 14, photo: Mathias Völzke

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

The findings, reported January 20 in Royal Society Open Science, may dispel the thought that some well - known folktales such as «Rumpelstiltskin» and «Beauty and the Beast» are recent inventions.

In English, the children read folktales from Africa and South America.

Length: 10.31 minutes Monkey and the Crocodile - an Indian folktale from the Panchantantra Monkey loves to hang out near the river, he's not worried about crocodiles, in fact he makes friends with one... they love to chat about food.

How long H. floresiensis persisted, or whether the species ever came face to face with H. sapiens, as did Neanderthals in Europe, is unknown, but local folktales suggest that little people were living in caves on some Indonesian islands when the first Dutch explorers arrived in the 16th century.

Narrated by Alfre Woodard, John Henry is the longest short on the entire Blu - ray, clocking in at just under 11 minutes, but it's exceedingly colorful and snappily paced, even as the adaptation of this well - known folktale reaches its tragic conclusion.

The outline itself was very rough and written with an adult as the main character (MC), which is often the case with very old folktales.

Gerson retells eight Mexican folktales featuring women who show complexity, inner strength, and magical creativity.

Two funny folktales from Africa come to life at this Crabgrass Puppet Theatre performance (Brookline)

For example, Carlson said he recently told the Irish folktale about how ragweed got its name.

A Tale of Two Sisters is based on an old Korean folktale of two sisters so abused by the capriciousness of the world that they're forced to take refuge in one another and within themselves.

This artist explores the links between folktales of the supernatural with the current stresses and conditions that China's rural communities face.

Included: Activities that involve students in dramatizing folktales, learning new words, preparing traditional foods, and much more!

In this African folktale lesson, learners read the story Anansi and the Sky Kingdom.

Installations by Jonas can be seen all day in the atmospheric subterranean setting of The Tanks, along with a piece by Jumana Emil Abboud based on Palestinian folktales.