Patricia Robin Woodruff
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This was a darling little book with some wonderful tales. What truly fascinated me is the similarity between the indigenous beliefs of the lands now known as Slavic! I have the hardback version of this book and the illustrations are wonderful. And I ...more | |
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I was really quite pleased with this book. I admit I started with some trepidation, since there is so many books that claim "ancient lore" and are all made-up neo-Nazi garbage and this is NOT one of them! Kenneth Johnson talks about traveling to Russ ...more | |
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I read this book as an ebook on archive dot org. I learned so much of the Pagan beliefs of Romania. It also provided some great insights into Slavic lore. It summed up some interesting folktales and offered very reasonable arguments to connect tales ...more | |
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I think this is a very overlooked book in Slavic studies. There's a great section in Magic, Medicine, Soothsaying and other fascinating rituals and beliefs. ...more | |
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What a wonderful collection of Seneca (Cornplanter) tales!! He has darling little illustrations and I learned so much from this book! I wish he had written more. I am looking at it from the viewpoint of someone studying the indigenous people of Old E ...more | |
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I found this an interesting book for the peek back into the past. I was looking up "Slavic" traditions of Albania, and I wish he had included more. But it's worth a read. I gleaned a few interesting tidbits about Albanian beliefs. ...more | |
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Great information! Really well researched and some darling illustrations. The author gets into totally fascinating facts. It's a shame this book is out of print. ...more | |
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A fun book letting you know more about the author's childhood and internal thoughts. Quite enjoyable. ...more | |
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A profoundly moving and beautiful book of the Škojan caves. This coffee-table book has glorious pictures of the caves accompanied by thoughtful commentary in side-by-side English and Slovenian. "[Heritage] heightens our sense of injustice and appeals ...more |
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Just as archaeologists find pieces of pottery and put together a picture of Prehistory, so too Adrian Poruciuc finds shards of ancient linguistics buried in Romanian songs. He convincingly shows remnants of Romanian belief in the afterlife that can a ...more | |
“I am lost in the embrace of a soft summer night, surrendering to its ecstasy while the voyeuristic fireflies wink knowingly.”
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“You know… the airport is the only place you can walk around with no shoes, a glazed look on your face, and sleep on the benches and no one judges you.”
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“I could feel a deep connection to Spirit in every glorious sunset and awesome wonder in every uncurling flower, but I couldn’t feel anything like that in the hollow words of men gone by.”
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