In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, local historian Patrick C. Duquette will discuss Native American folk tales and legends such as the “bear walking” shape-shifting story. Duquette will ...
Heralded as the origin story of the shape-shifting entities popularized by one of China’s Four Great Folktales, “The Legend of the White Snake,” this quasi-prequel opens with Blanca (voiced by ...
It's a pity however that the folk literature of Bihar is extremely scarce. Aside from the 1968 Sahitya Akademi publication, 'Folk Tales of Bihar' by PC Roy Chaudhury, I haven't come across any other ...
The Water Festival aligns with the date of the full moon in the Khmer lunar calendar month of Kadeuk (or Kartika in Sanskrit) when the rice crops in paddy fields are ready for harvest. Besides being a ...
Catalin Zima-Zegreanu, Lead Designer: We started off knowing that we wanted to make something inspired by the folk tales we heard from our parents and grandparents. The more obscure ones that we never ...
Where myths, legends and cultural history is re-examined by 21st Century methods. The legend is an important part of Scandinavian folklore. Spooky tales of ghostly black dogs have a long tradition in ...
The award-winning Armageddon Gospels is a folk horror feature film that explores Brexit through the lens of British folk-tales and mythology. The film was released on Apple TV in the UK, the USA, and ...
Where does a harmless winding dirt road through the wood, intersect with a pathway now walked by the dead? And why are we so fascinated by them? Folktales often reflect a shared human experience that ...
Zora Neale Hurston, the "Queen of Black Folklore," took a trip to her hometown in the 1920s. She recorded African-American folktales that have been passed down through generations, which are traceable ...
On Saturday, the Grammy-nominated, internationally known spoken-word recording artist and storyteller, will present "Tales from Beyond the Ban: Folktales from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria ...
Jessica Wang receives research funding from the University of British Columbia. Over the past decade, she has also received grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, ...
Storyteller Vergine Gulbenkian perform s at the British Council on Saturday. Biswajit Kundu A British storyteller who loves tales from Mahabharata mesmerised a young audience in the city on Saturday ...