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"Fairy tales are alive with the supernatural - elves, dwarfs, fairies, giants, and trolls, as well as witches with magic wands and sorcerers who cast spells and enchantments. Children into Swans examines these motifs in a range of ancient stories. Moving from the rich period of nineteenth-century fairy tales back as far as the earliest folk literature of northern Europe, Jan Beveridge shows how long these supernatural features have been a part of...
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It was mainly just the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercieal interest, rather than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages of pagani, pejoratively named after them as Paganism. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants and assimilation the symbolism of...
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"Hidden within age-old classic stories lie the hermetic teachings of alchemy and Freemasonry [bullet] Explains how the stages of the Great Work are encoded in both little known and popular stories such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood [bullet] Reveals the connection between Mother Goose and important esoteric symbols of the Western Mystery tradition [bullet] Demonstrates the ancient lineage of these stories and how they originated...
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