Download or read book The Myths and Legends of Croatia written by Robert Potter and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the mystical world of Croatian folklore in "The Myths and Legends of Croatia" by Robert Potter. From creation myths to heroic tales, this engaging book offers a vivid exploration of the narratives that have shaped a nation's identity. Whether you're a curious traveler, folklore enthusiast, or simply someone intrigued by the magic of storytelling, this book invites you to embark on a journey through Croatia's mythical landscape. Experience the allure of Vila, uncover the secrets of Zagreb, and encounter dragons and deities that still whisper in the Adriatic winds. "A captivating journey through Croatia's mythical landscape - a must-read!" "Potter masterfully blends history and legend in this enchanting exploration." "From Vila to dragons, this book leaves no mythical stone unturned." "An insightful guide to Croatian folklore, both for scholars and casual readers." "Robert Potter brings Croatia's legends to life with elegance and flair." "An essential read for anyone interested in European mythology." "The Myths and Legends of Croatia is as mesmerizing as the land it describes." "Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, this book is a treasure trove of folklore." "Potter's prose weaves a magical tapestry that resonates with the soul." "A book that not only educates but also transports the reader into the heart of Croatian mythology."
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant and illustrated selection of Croatian myths and heroic folk tales offers stunning glimpses into a centuries-old culture. The familiar themes of the fairy tale - the gallant hero, fearsome beast, and damsel-in-distress - were popular with the storytellers of Croatia of old. What makes these stories so interesting is the local variations of familiar narratives; the maritime culture of Croatia is reflected in the story of Fisherman Plunk, whose poverty motivates him to seek adventure. Many of the mystical creatures described are peculiar to the Croatian culture, with dialogue between humans and creatures of the wilderness plus poetic verses giving each story a distinctive tone. Croatia's folklore is understood to be a local variation on the wider grouping of Slavic myths. Exotic and unfamiliar to Western readers, the stories are made vivid by the illustrations of Vladimir Kirin, whose unique style brings the creatures and scenes of the stories alive. The translator F. S. Copeland sought to preserve the accuracy and uniqueness of Croatia's folklore, and appends at the conclusion a series of interpretive notes so readers can better understand the stories and the names of the characters.
Download or read book Croatia Myth and Reality written by C. Michael McAdams and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago is considered to be a masterpiece and features a series of newly written fairy tales heavily inspired by motifs taken from ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. Croatian Tales of Long Ago are seen as one of the most typical examples of the writing style of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. The book has been compared by literary critics to Hans Christian Andersen and J. R. R. Tolkien due to the way it combines original fantasy plots with folk mythology.
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Ivana Mazuranich and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Croatian: Price iz davnine), is a short story collection written by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlic-Mažuranic (sometimes spelled as "Ivana Brlich-Mazuranich" in English), originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica hrvatska publishing house. The collection is considered her masterpiece and it features a series of newly written fairy tales heavily inspired by motifs taken from ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia.Croatian Tales of Long Ago are seen as one of the most typical examples of her writing style which has been compared by literary critics to Hans Christian Andersen and J. R. R. Tolkien due to the way it combines original fantasy plots with folk mythology.The collection was translated into English by F.S. Copeland and first published in New York in 1922 by the Frederick A. Stokes Co. and in 1924 in London by the George Allen & Unwin publishing house, the same company which originally published J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1937, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1954-55. The original Croatian edition published in 1916 consisted of six stories. Two additional stories were later added and first published in the Croatian 1926 edition. These eight appear in contemporary Croatian editions. Since the English translation was published before the extra two stories were written, they featured only the original six tales.
Download or read book CROATIAN TALES OF LONG AGO 6 unique Croatian Fairy Tales for Children written by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CROATIAN TALES OF LONG AGO, is a collection of children’s stories by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (sometimes spelled as "Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić".) The collection is considered her masterpiece of Croatian literature and it features a series of newly written fairy tales heavily inspired by motifs taken from ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. These children’s stories are seen as one of the most typical examples of her writing style which has been compared by literary critics to Hans Christian Andersen and J. R. R. Tolkien due to the way it combines original fantasy plots with folk mythology. The collection was translated into English by F.S. Copeland and also features 11 full page colour illustrations and almost as many pen and ink drawings by the Croatian illustrator Vladimir Kirin. The stories in this volume are: How Quest Sought The Truth Fisherman Plunk And His Wife Reygoch Bridesman Sun And Bride Bridekins Stribor’s Forest Little Brother Primrose And Sister Lavender 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. YESTERDAY’S BOOKS RAISING FUNDS FOR TODAY’S CHARITIES. ================= KEYWORDS/TAGS: Croatian Tales, long ago, folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, fables, childrens stories, childrens books, afraid, All-Rosy, ancient, angry, apple, baby, Banewater, Barren, Bass, beautiful, Bee, Belleroo, Bride, Bridekins, Brownies, Bruineen, cabin, Castle, cavern, cloak, coven, cradle, Cross, Curlylocks, Dawn-Maiden, Dragon, Eagle, Emperor, Fairies, fearsome, Forest, Frosten, Girdle, goblin, Golden, hero, Holy, island, King, Kitesh, lake, lantern, Lavender, Lilio, magpies, maiden, mermaid, , Miloika, Mother, Mountain, Muggish, noble, Oleg, orphans, Plunk, poison, Primrose, Prince, princess, Quest, Rampogusto, Relya, Reygoch, sacred, Share-spoil, She-bear, silver, soot-blacked, Stribor, Sun, Moon, , Tintilinkie, Votaress, Warden, water, wedding, Winpeace, parents to be, community, parents with children, Split, Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Zadar, Pula, Karlovac, Biokovo, Dinaric Alps, Velebit, Ucka, Mosor, Velika Kapela, Svilaja
Download or read book CROATIAN TALES OF LONG AGO written by IVANA. BRLIC-MAZURANIC and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Ivan Berlic-Mazuranic and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running Away to Home written by Jennifer Wilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia. "We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this is the kick in the pants we needed to do something completely different. There will always be an excuse not to go..." And that, friends, is how a typically sane middle-aged mother decided to drag her family back to a forlorn mountain village in the backwoods of Croatia. So begins author Jennifer Wilson's journey in Running Away to Home. Jen, her architect husband, Jim, and their two children had been living the typical soccer- and ballet-practice life in the most Middle American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They overindulged themselves and their kids, and as a family they were losing one another in the rush of work, school, and activities. One day, Jen and her husband looked at each other–both holding their Starbucks coffee as they headed out to their SUV in the mall parking lot, while the kids complained about the inferiority of the toys they just got–and asked themselves: "Is this the American dream? Because if it is, it sort of sucks." Jim and Jen had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical in another country, so when they lost half their savings in the stock-market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left the troubled landscape of contemporary America for the Croatian mountain village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, with a population of eight hundred (mostly drunken) residents and a herd of sheep milling around the post office. For several months they lived like locals, from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves.
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Ivana Brlic Mazuranic and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Croatian Tales of Long Ago, is a short story collection written by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica hrvatska publishing house. Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
Download or read book Croatian tales of long ago written by I. Brli?-Ma?urani? and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1924 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths and Legends of the World written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to travel through time with 21 dazzling stories of daring and deceit, reward and punishment. Meet gods and goddesses, serpents, coyotes, talking fish and clever spiders, and discover different versions of how the world began. This beautifully illustrated book features vibrant myths and epic legends told in countries around the world.
Download or read book Myths and Legends written by John Pemberton and published by Canary Press eBooks. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many ancient legends in circulation, either through verbal story-telling, ancient script or paintings, have assisted the human race in understanding the complex world we live in, even if they have been embellished over the years. They have helped us form societies and have given people reason to live, they are the blocks that when linked together can help us find the answers we as a human race have been searching for. Myths and Legends gathers together the principal mythologies, legends and folklore of ancient and modern cultures and explores the relationship that they have with their people and with the major religions of the world. Contents : Creation; male and female relationships; natural disaster; survival; death and the afterlife. Principal myths and legends of the world: Greek, Roman, Celtic; pagan; Arthurian; Greenman, Norse, Voodoo; Caribbean folk heroes; giants, dragons and unicorns; Maori gods rangi and papa (sky and earth); dream-time of the indigenous Australians; Bon of Tibet; Chinese mythology; Native American tribal stories; mythology and religion: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Taoism.
Download or read book National Geographic Traveler Croatia written by Rudolf Abraham and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Off-the-beaten-path excursions, insider tips, not-to-be-missed lists, authentic experiences"--Cover.
Download or read book Croatia Istria written by Rudolf Abraham and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two Croatia experts, this new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt’s Croatia: Istria, with Rijeka and the Slovenian Adriatic remains the only full-length guide to this well-heeled, varied part of former Yugoslavia to include detailed background and practical information. Catering for all types of travellers (from outdoors enthusiasts to culture vultures, foodies to oenophiles) and budgets, the guide offers revised listings for accommodation, restaurants, and what to see and do. Istria crams remarkable diversity in a conveniently compact region: it takes under an hour to drive almost anywhere on the peninsula. The region boasts some of Croatia's most famous sites, including Pula's spectacular Roman amphitheatre, Porec’s UNESCO-listed Byzantine mosaics (every bit as good as Italy’s Ravenna and Istanbul’s Aya Sofya), picturesque medieval hill towns (such as Motovun and Draguc) and frescoes, and the Brijuni Islands National Park. In 2020, the transport hub and carnival city of Rijeka in the Kvarner region became Croatia’s first ever European Capital of Culture. Istria is renowned for its cuisine, particularly pasta, game, seafood and truffles (until recently Istria held the world record for the world’s largest truffle), and also produces fine wine and world-class olive oil. There is plenty of pampering on offer, too, with luxury and boutique hotels, excellent restaurants and inexpensive spa treatments. Istria makes a great base to explore nearby Capodistria on Slovenia’s coast, and karst limestone areas with beautiful and uncrowded coastal towns, castles, Lipizzaner horses and the UNESCO-listed Škocjan cave. New or expanded coverage in this edition include advice and information on the Vivapa Valley, Slovenian wines, recently opened hotels, travelling to Istria by rail, and vegetarian or vegan restaurants. With extensive sections on trekking, cycling (including the Parenzana long-distance cycling route) and diving, plus information on windsurfing, paragliding, wreck diving (including sites such as the Coriolanus and the Baron Gautsch) and sailing, and detail on wildlife (30 species of orchid grow on Cape Kemenjak alone), numerous festivals (including celebrations of film, fish, truffles and prosciutto), music, travelling with children and ancient history, this Bradt guide provides everything you need to plan and enjoy a visit.
Download or read book Croatian Tales of Long Ago written by Berlic Mazuranic and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of traditional Croatian tales.
Download or read book The Occult Truths of Myths and Legends written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of previously-untranslated lectures, Rudolf Steiner describes how myths and legends portray humanity's most ancient evolutionary and spiritual history. Folklore presents ancient mystical wisdom in the form of stories – clothed in pictures by initiates – that enable individuals to understand their content in a more intellectual form at a later time.Focusing on Greek and Germanic mythology, the lectures in the first part of this volume cover the chronicles of Prometheus, Daedalus and Icarus, Parzival and Lohengrin, the Argonauts and the Odyssey, and the heroic dragon-slayer Siegfried. From these focal points, Rudolf Steiner discusses a variety of themes – from the mysteries of the Druids and the founding of Rome to the esoteric background of Wolfram von Eschenbach; from good and evil and the unjust death sentence on Socrates to the significance of marriage..The second part of this book features lectures on the nature and significance of the musical dramas of Richard Wagner. Wagner's works, from his earliest attempts to his most mature opera Parsifal, are discussed from spiritual viewpoints. Although Wagner did not have a fully conscious awareness of the deeper meanings of his compositions, Steiner suggests that his shaping of Germanic legends was driven by an instinctive, creative and artistic certainty that accords with deep occult truths.
