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...blic/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fight... ...a) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was played ... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...ged to female adults. Gein quickly became a cult figure and the butt of moralizing folk tales and "Geiners", macabre jokes. His farm and belongings... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne...
...d in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” Write for the Lord, and put forward your writing. Stand before ... ...uk 2:2 (NAS) S ince the invention of the typewriter in 1873, the pen-and-ink folks have become understandably nervous. America’s love of pushing butt... ...s of our dreams. Wilson urged members of the audience to find a few of these folks who will encourage us endlessly. That afternoon I wrote my first pi... ...ion in the Spirit, being watchful with perseverance and supplication for the saints, and for me that utterance my be given to me that I may open my mo...
...tes his dedicatory epistle to the Son of God himself: so familiar are these saints with Christ who reigns in heaven! Here it seems three magpies are ... ...ulian the Apostate, August 7, 362. In a collection of legendary lives of the saints, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine (circa 1230–1298), it is related... ...ew poor “people of the earth” 140 who are left behind, such as the married folk, 141 appear vile in their eyes. From what has been said we recogni... ... we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” If the saints may not deny their sin, how much more ought those who are guilty ... ...nts—such as their running about on pilgrimages, the perverse worship of the saints, the lying saints’ legends, the various ways of trusting in works... ...not regarded as sacraments. Besides, even among believers there are married folk who are wicked and worse than any heathen; why should marriage be c...
...that way, he knew we would all get home safely. Our lives as bored, wealthy folk came to a head after one such night at the Folies-Bergere. Erik wa... ...rned the correct motions to propel myself around the pond. There were many folk out on the ice, laughing and enjoying themselves, and I could not he... ...e paper when I was gone,” Erik explained. “She will tell the Opera Garnier folk, and word will reach the authorities. No one will look for me agai... ... Veronique also had her father’s fastidious habits about clothing. “May the saints preserve me from another Provençal farmer,” I sighed as I ran my f...
... seemed to be waiting patiently as he always did, and picked up a loud speaker, “Alright, folks, it’s time to relax.” The same words she had always u... ...ot the only saint around here,” he said offended. Salvi had only one parting statement, “Saints come, and saints go, but evil always remains. And, ... ...d. There is much you do not know of what went on. As far as I am concerned, they are both saints, and should be blessed by the Holy Mother the Churc...
...r King. Doctor Kevorkian and Mother Theresa. Wars and Disease. Sinners and saints, madmen and geniuses. Nothing had changed, just horrible and great p... ...ic detail. He read the classification card instead: Saudi men performing a folk dance at the annual culture festival ... The miniatures were so finel...
... if you would sit with Hannah. I asked her to come to Sand Hill, but she won’t. My folks — well, they haven’t had anything to do with her since she... ... they were having a little private life of their own.” “Funny you or some of your folks weren't around preparing for this big trial…” “Mather M... ... fussed with her napkin. “I declare. I don’t know what’s to become of this town. Folks murdered in broad daylight.” “Magnolia Street will becom... ...r aces.” “That has to play on Clay’s nerves.” “Just watch yourself with those folks.” She waved goodbye to him, hoping for his simple soul’s... ...e, grounds, got about ten acres in azaleas. Before Guy got it, it was a place city folks went to chill out.” What are we doing talking about Guy Ma... ...k. “Samantha Lee is a true saint putting up with that woman.” “That’s what true saints do.” “That woman thought she could take anything she...
...ity. This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral. Many a suburban folk wish to belong to the city with such heat and conviction, w... ...hauung") - possibly the same history, the same language or dialect, the same hopes, folklore, fears, and aspirations ("agenda"), the same enemies an... ... Turks have built several fortresses in my kingdom and are very kind to the country folk. They promise freedom to every peasant who converts to Isla... ...the military. Christian officials converted to maintain their officialdom. Ordinary folk converted to avoid onerous taxes. Christian traders convert... ...he Balkan, Christianity never really took hold. It was adopted by the peasant as a folk religion - as was Islam later. In Bosnia, for instance, Mus... ... and all war casualties are treated by their countries or organizations as secular saints. Israeli soldiers (I have been one myself) are raised on ...
..., in inverse sense, in a syncretic way. Thus the paradoxism was born. The folk jokes, at great fashion in Ceausescu's 'Epoch', as an intellectual br... ... but to do and die. Criminals are transformed in heroes. Sinners in saints. This is the contemporary world! While innocents and obedient beco... ...ory and neutral debates, conversations. Miguel de Unamuno: When two folks Juan and Pedro talk, there are six folks who actually talk: - the r... ...us people around. How many dialogues are taken place? But in a group of n folks, when everybody talks? We know without knowing. In biolog...
... you made the right choice for yourself and your boy. No matter what other folks might say.” “To tell you the truth, Ivor, this marriage surprised... ...eve it for a minute. I said they must be mistaken. You know these country folk, always ready to think the worst of city ways. I told them the... ... ... benches with her husband and his son, all the statues and the stained glass saints and cherubs smiling down, seemed to bestow the blessing of family... ...ed, my dear, in the eyes of God and the blasted Church and all the blinkin’ saints, livin’ and dead.” Morgan flinched as Daniel punctuated his stat... ... “Don’t stand there gapin’. Haven’t ye done enough yellin’ his name for the saints and all the world t’hear. Git in with ye.” A woman of Falkner’s... ... “Not many as admits havin’ friends among the tinkers. But I do. Scornin’ folks ain’t in my blood. They call themselves travelers, the tinkers. T... ... her sinking spirit, and threw her a lifeline now and again, some snatch of folklore or legend to keep her mind occupied for a while. The gulls swo... ...o be trouble. The neglected women clamored for attention, and the poor men folk couldn’t keep up with their duties. First one called Ladra died, a...
...truggles against the corrupt and decadent Byzantines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millions of urban unemployed, nomads, and dislo... ...countries, most of all Egypt's. When Russia attacked Tajikistan, bin Laden and his folks were by no means interested in liberating Tajikistan from ... ...ween one's professional conscience and one's propensity to live the good life. Only saints win such battles. Whatever UNMIK is - it is decidedly not... ...es. In the background there is the crying game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular perf...
...housand nights is far too short a time to have lived with such delightful folk, but now we approach the end. My soul shall f oat away on the breeze ... ...ndwriting, so I’m sure it says nice things. Hmmm. Here’s one from the old folks’ home down the road. I’ll leave it for later, if you don’t mind. I c... ...ith their Flash-boxes. ‘Those were the days!’ he cried. ‘Time was that old folks were respected. There was none of the smart answers that go on today... ... the titles were too intimidating to invite a closer look: A Study of the Folk Demons of Medieval Mongolia Bloodlines of the Ancient Celtic Priests L... ... to feed yourself in a country like this,’ he explained. ‘What about your folks?’ Theo asked another day. Buntee bowed his head and Theo understood ... ...od that the villagers bring.’ ‘Ha,’ Theo laughed. ‘I thought holy men and saints were supposed to lead strict lives of hardship and fasting, not stu...
...cause of potential rights considerations.” The same was true of the scratchy folk songs from the twenties or the early film holdings. The material was ... ...mous author was not alone in feeling indignant. Thomas More (one of only two saints to write really good political theory) made similar points, though... ...alking in like “Hey!” Chilling on his vacation, sitting patiently Them black folks gotta hope, gotta wait and see If FEMA really comes through in an e... ...used to dying!” He said, “I know it looks bad, just have to wait” Forgetting folks was too broke to evacuate N———’s starving and they dying of thirst ... ...f that reaction stems from simple novelty. “A lot of people who were scaring folks in 1975 now have Nobel prizes.” 11 But even if inchoate, the concer... ...ermeated to the finest, most atomic level of science and culture—the world of folk music or 1950s jazz, of jokes and slang and recipes, of Ray Charles’...
...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ...of living, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth... ...ity - local language (dialect) - local concepts, cognitions and categories Folklore supporting community - localization of storytelling - moralistic n... ...on. Today, the young hardly participate at all and only a few of the older folk. Before, people used to drink spirits only before festivals, for insta... ...n the evenings, we used to walk along the road, musicians used to play old folk instruments and the others follow them, dancing. That way we used to c... ...nst a Historical Background. Cambridge Univ. Press. — 1984. The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets. A Study in Charisma, Hagiogra...
..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment... ...arcissist who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of... ...ers of these couples tend to define themselves as each other's best friends. It is folk wisdom to state that the first three types of dyad arrangem... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment... ...se they assume that they will live to enjoy the benefits. Similarly, sophisticated folk overindulge a little at present because they believe that, ...
...rnment at the opening of the door, mistakenly regarding Westerners as the saints. The Chinese idiom of “Who cares whether the cat is black or white ... ...ave no form either) Criminals are transformed into heroes. Sinners into saints. This is the contemporary world! Innocents and the obedient become ... ...lation and Commentary with Sanskrit Text”) Miguel de Unamuno: When two folks Juan and Pedro talk, there are six folks who actually talk: - The re... ...had been among the basic educations in China, not reserved for masters or saints. It is an important part of culture. But nowadays one cannot assure ... ...important part of culture. But nowadays one cannot assure that masters or saints of Buddhism are necessarily real Buddhists. FS: As to the questio...
...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...ituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… which becomes you... ... And still be proud of themselves as decent, rational scientific, God-fearing folk: obeying Darwin’s famous Law of Natural Selection… or God’s Will,... ...he colored glass refracting natural sunlight and using it to glorify Christian Saints, Christian Myths, er Truths. The masses not allowed to go out... ... based upon some central-common historical-cultural background of myth-legend-folklore-religion: they came to repeat the same names over and over. ... ...stupid: no sane healthy person wants to go near them. They end up in old-age folks homes. In retirement homes. In hospitals, nursing homes. Dodde... ...hout the superstitions and taboos and customs and traditions and holy days and saints days and teachings of the Catholic church which had been their ... ...n. Look at how the Catholic Church corrupted the teachings of its own fucking Saints for god’s sake. All of the humble, poor martyrs who starved an... ...east in their name, for god’s sake. When the living examples of the Catholic Saints: were and still are; the complete fucking opposite of gluttony, ...
...garul...”.Nea Purrcell); expressions and repetitions recalling the children’s folk: ”Pizza, pizza/Prepelita/Pentru Mamamare Ghita”etc. In other pla... ...n: “War/ Against the war”( Peace); • double assertion that gives a negation:” Saints’/Sanctification (Ordaining); • putting on the wrong track: ”Wit... ...es turn into epigrams, the contemporary- urban (sometimes suburban!) or rural folklore is recovered ( From world gathered) (De prin lume adunate) or...
...denied and urged that the Buddha admitted women to be capable of attaining saintship and that it was unjust to refuse the blessings of religion to one... ...countless Christians. In some respects he has been the most popular of the saints, particularly for trav- eling Christians, because of the story that ... ...oice from the sky, “You are my very dear son, my favor rests upon you.” 63 Folk-belief once held that a baby has no soul until baptism and the receipt... ...tisfactorily defined in formal Christian theology, although much Christian folklore about the Devil and the Devil’s angels/ demons has become widely k... ...urch to adopt this custom, though only for the dead, calling such persons “saints.” (In the New Testament all Christians, alive or dead are called “ho... ...the present. Guardian angels, one as- signed to each Christian, and patron saints are very much in vogue in the Catholic Church. Saints are popularly ... ...n behalf of those who petition them. But although there are as many female saints as male, and no saint is superior to another, they are not in any se... ... N.: “This Island, the World On the Turtle’s Back,” in Journal of American Folklore, 75, 1962, pp. 283-300. Frankfort, Henri: Ancient Egyptian Religio... ...ironmental Ethics, Summer 1980, vol. 2, pp. 121-48. Hassel, E.: “Myths and folktales of the Wheelman tribe of South-Western Australia” in Folklore, Se...