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Liedeman, Gwendolene Caren. "Magic in the ancient Near East with special reference to ancient Israel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52924.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this investigation an anthropological and comparative approach was employed in the study of magic in the ancient Near East. Firstly, a survey was presented with regard to anthropological theories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This forms the background against which evidence on magic with respect to the cultures of the ancient Near East is investigated. Secondly, examples of magic in the Ancient Near East was discussed, with reference to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hittite Anatolia. Reference was made to

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Overton, Shawna Dolansky. "Now you see it, now you don't : biblical perspectives on the relationship between magic and religion /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064470.

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Jeffers, Ann. "Magic and divination in ancient Palestine and Syria /." Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372052473.

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Veiga, Paula. "Health and Medicine in ancient Egypt; magic and science." Thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71526.

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Health was a constant concern in life and even the deceased needed extra care so they can be at their prime when closed in the sarcophagus, in the possession of magical ‘weapons’ so that, when they would reach the Afterlife, they would be in the complete possession of all their physical abilities. Medicine in ancient Egypt was trying to restrain all malefic beings from action and to preserve the well-being of the individual. Thus the initial statement that magic and science were one and only, a sole concept, represented by heka. Through this work, all descriptions and conceptions observed in t

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Torri, Giulia. "La similitudine nella magia analogica ittita." Roma : Herder, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53704957.html.

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Mekawy, Ouda A. M. "Werethekau 'Great of Magic' in the religious landscape of Ancient Egypt." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1418954/.

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This research investigates the materiality and scope, within the religious landscape of Egyptian archaeology, of Werethekau “Great of Magic”, as attested from the third millennium BC to the fourth century BC as (a) a term for different material objects (crowns, and vulture and cobra amulets), (b) epithet of other deities, and (c) name for a separate goddess. My research foundation is the corpus of dynastic period attestations of the compound weret+hekau as most secure tangible starting-point. In this study I explore the idea of the transformation of a ritual object into an epithet of other dei

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Irvin, Margaret. "Some speculations on magic, ritual and superstition in antiquity /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18654.pdf.

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Arbabzadah, Moreed Ahmad Richard. "Greek-Latin bilingualism in ancient magic : studies on curse tablets and magical amulets." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610213.

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Haluszka, Adria R. "THE SACRED DOMAIN: A SEMIOTIC AND COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF RELIGION AND MAGIC IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281665999.

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Sabaté, Vidal Víctor. "Inscribed Lead Tablets from the Ancient western Mediterranean." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671458.

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This doctoral dissertation consists of a catalogue of those inscribed lead tablets found in the Western Mediterranean which can be dated to between the late sixth and the late first centuries BCE. In other words, it includes all the inscriptions on this medium that can be placed between the earliest examples and the end of the Roman Republic. The reign of Augustus represents a milestone in terms of epigraphic habits, generally speaking but also, in particular, regarding the use of lead tablets as a medium for inscriptions. From a geographical point of view, the Western Mediterranean has provi

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DeVoe, Lauren E. "Erichtho’s Mouth: Persuasive Speaking, Sexuality and Magic." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2020.

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Since classical times, the witch has remained an eerie, powerful and foreboding figure in literature and drama. Often beautiful and alluring, like Circe, and just as often terrifying and aged, like Shakespeare’s Wyrd Sisters, the witch lives ever just outside the margins of polite society. In John Marston’s Sophonisba, or The Wonder of Women the witch’s ability to persuade through the use of language is Marston’s commentary on the power of poetry, theater and women’s speech in early modern Britain. Erichtho is the ultimate example of a terrifying woman who uses linguistic persuasion to change

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Witts, Jennifer. "The role of magic and medicine in the lives of ancient Egyptian women and their children." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50522.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the role that magic and medicine played in the lives of ancient Egyptian women and children. In a time when giving birth often ended in the death of the mother and child, and child mortality was extremely high, a variety of protective measures were undertaken by the ancient Egyptians. Medicine as the scientific treatment of ailments and women's health in general did exist in Egypt, however, life in Egypt was determined by religion and especially magic. The health of the ancient Egyptian woman a

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Paule, Maxwell Teitel. "Canidia: A Literary Analysis of Horace's Witch." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343685076.

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Johansson, Tuva. "The significance of believing in healing : On the therapeutic value of spoken words in ancient Egyptian medical papyri." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387626.

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Medicine and healing, constantly changing through time, have always been important aspects of life. The desire to avoid the inevitable state of death has driven mankind in all corners of the world to develop certain ways of prolonging life from a very early time. While it is recognized in the modern day that disease and infection are caused by microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, the ancient Egyptians believed that gods, demons, and spirits played the main roles in causing such troubles. Therefore, it does not seem strange that, besides being devoted to the use of various na

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Beshay, Michael. "The Virgin Mary in Ritual in Late Antique Egypt: Origins, Practice, and Legacy." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu15888899395967.

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Dokter, Anija (Rachel). "Listening to birth : metallurgy, maternity, and vocality in the reproduction of the patriarchal state." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278616.

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Listening to Birth asserts that structures of power reproduce themselves by instituting particular modes of listening and sound production. Situating my research within feminist sound studies, I argue that meanings conjured around the audible, material bodies of women were carefully crafted by elites in antiquity, in order to construct gendered ideologies of kingship, civilisation, and nature. I examine these power dynamics as expressed in mythic and magical texts and iconographies, dating from the Bronze Age to later Roman antiquity. Throughout the thesis, I examine the development of symboli

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Ritner, Robert Kriech. "The mechanics of ancient Egyptian magical practice /." Chicago : Oriental institute of the University of Chicago, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355989811.

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Spiers, Carmen. "Magie et poésie dans l’Inde ancienne : édition, traduction et commentaire de la Paippalādasaṁhitā de l’Atharvaveda, livre 3". Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPSLP054.

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Cette thèse allie une étude de l’Atharvaveda, une tradition rituelle de l’Inde ancienne, à l’édition avec traduction et commentaire d’un livre d’hymnes appartenant à sa liturgie. L’auteur défend l’association de l’Atharvaveda avec la « magie », définie selon des critères structuraux plutôt que descriptifs, au moyen d’une étude historique de l’évolution au cours de l’époque védique (1500 à 500 avant notre ère) du rôle de l’Atharvaveda au sein de la communauté des prêtres-poètes brahmanes d’où elle émane, dans une position marginale par rapport aux trois Veda majeurs. Le rôle rituel des hymnes e

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Van, Liefferinge Carine. "La Théurgie: des oracles chaldaïques à Proclus." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212283.

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Carastro, Marcello. "La cité des mages : penser la magie en Grèce ancienne /." Grenoble : J. Millon, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40179500n.

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Burke, Devin Michael Paul. "Music, Magic, and Mechanics: The Living Statue in Ancien-Régime Spectacle." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1449258139.

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Mattsson, McGinnis Meghan. "Ring Out Your Dead : Distribution, form, and function of iron amulets in the late Iron Age grave fields of Lovö." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Arkeologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131728.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution, forms, and function(s) of iron amulets deposited in the late Iron Age gravefields of Lovö, with the goal of ascertaining how (and so far as possible why) these objects were utilized in rituals carried out during and after burials. Particular emphasis is given to re-interpreting the largest group of iron amulets, the iron amulet rings, in a more relational and practice-focused way than has heretofore been attempted. By framing burial analyses, questions of typology, and evidence of ritualized actions in comparison with what is known of o

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Jaffee, Kay C. "Medea among the ancients and moderns : morality and magic in French musical theatre of the seventeenth century /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40041231c.

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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les Magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37597153m.

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Schwartzman, Lauren J. "Contest and community : wonder-working in Christian popular literature from the second to the fifth centuries CE." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a3de02f7-18a9-4363-8bbf-cea5a73eb223.

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In this thesis, I hope to demonstrate that what I call the magic contest tradition, that is the episodes of competitive wonder-working that appear in a wide variety of apocryphal and non-canonical Christian texts, made an important contribution to the development of Christian thought during the second to the fifth centuries CE. This contribution was to articulate ‘the way’ to be a Christian in a world which was not isolated from the secular, and not insulated from the reality of the Roman empire. First, I demonstrate that a tradition of texts which feature magic contests exists within the broa

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Carastro, Cléo. "La cité des mages : anthropologie et histoire de la notion de magie en Grèce ancienne." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0088.

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L'analyse de la conception de la magie en Grèce ancienne dans une perspective d'histoire culturelle amène à considérer la notion de mageía comme un produit culturel grec construit dans le cadre d'une conjoncture historique particulière (entre la fin du Ve et le début du IVe siècle av. N. è. ). La première partie de cette thèse explore en trois chapitres la " niche culturelle ", le réseau de termes et de notions grecques qui ont permis la réception des mágoi dans les cités et l'utilisation de mots dérivés. Les verbes thélgein, kēleîn, pedân ou pharmakeúein, ont guidé l'enquête dont la source pr

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Zago, Michela. "I temi della propaganda tebana nei papiri magico-achemici della collezione Anastasi (II-IV secolo)." Paris, EPHE, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EPHE5006.

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La thèse choisit comme point de départ un lot de papyrus magiques et alchimiques grecs et démotiques appartenant à la collection Anastasi (II-IV siècles). Ces textes sont caractérisés par l'unité du lieu de provenance : Thèbes d'Egypte. Ils constituaient probablement une bibliothèque, dont on envisage de démontrer l'unité malgré la distinction courante de ces textes en "magiques" et "alchimiques". Face à la lesgislation anti-divinatoire et anti-magique romaine, les papyrus Anastasi décrivent l'organisation d'un univers rituel visant à reproduire sous d'autres formes la vie des temples égyptien

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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les Magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises." Caen, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986CAEN1005.

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Apres une premiere partie de synthese traitant du phenomene magique dans l'islande ancienne, cette these etudie les caracteristiques anthropologiques des magiciens islandais (traits physiques et psychiques) et discute la question de la presence du chamanisme dans les sources litteraires norroises (deuxieme partie). La troisieme partie est constituee par une description sociologique des magiciens: situation juridique, economique et sociale (avec discussion de la question d'une profession de magicien), origines ethniques et geographiques, modes d'habitat, vie familiale et comportement sexuel, re

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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises /." Uppsala : Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40172255d.

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Alsayed, Mahmoud. "Commerce et transformation des produits d’arbres et d’arbustes (bois, fruits frais et secs, racines, rameaux, feuilles, fleurs, graines, farine, poudre, parfum, encens, vin et huile) pour l’architecture, l’économie, la médecine, le culte et la magie à Ougarit et dans les royaumes et les empires environnants et au Bronze récent, d’après les données des sciences naturelles, des sources archéologiques et épigraphiques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040285.

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Le sujet de cette étude est le commerce et l’utilisation de divers produits issus d’arbres et d’arbustes dans le royaume d’Ougarit, situé sur la côte de la Syrie et dont la documentation écrite nous renseigne sur l’époque du Bronze récent, principalement les XIVe et XIIIe siècles avant J.-C. Ce royaume est particulièrement bien connu grâce aux milliers de tablettes trouvées depuis 82 ans sur le site de Ras Shamra et plus récemment sur celui de Ras Ibn Hani. Ces tablettes sont écrites très majoritairement dans deux langues et deux systèmes d’écriture cunéiforme : d’une part, la langue locale, b

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Ferro, Maria del Rosario. "Between the Magic of Magic and the Magic of Money: the Changing Nature of Experience in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NZ86GC.

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When people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta are gathered around the hearths of their houses, it is common to hear the sound and movement of the women's spindles whirring on the earth floor as they pull out threads of material, and the rhythm of men's hardwood rods rubbing continuously against the mouth of their gourd containers. It is at this point of intimacy and flowing vitality at which the familiarity of the indigenous Sierra comes alive. According to Kogi, Wiwa and Ika cosmology, there is a life force that grows in people, as much as animals and plants, which like the thread of

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Mackenzie, Cullen Guy Mansfield. "Against evil : a comparative study of ancient Greek and contemporary Zulu protective magic." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/629.

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In the study of ‘magic’, whether in the Late Antique world of the Mediterranean or contemporary South Africa, there exists a lacuna in the understanding of conceptions of ‘evil’. This dissertation attempts to fill this lacuna through the use of comparison, comparing ancient Greek conceptions of evil as contained in a selection of six amulets from the third and fourth centuries of the Common Era, written in Greek, with conceptions obtained through interviews with contemporary isiZulu-speakers in KwaZulu-Natal. It begins with the Greek material, teasing out the complex intersecting discourses us

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Jovanovic, Ljubica O. "Through Hellenistic eyes Joseph as scientist in post-biblical literature /." Diss., 2007. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-12062007-204341/.

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Houle, Mélanie. "Les notions de possession et d'exorcisme en Grèce ancienne à la lumière des auteurs anciens, des phylactères et des PGM." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3920.

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La notion d'un esprit étranger et invisible qui prend possession d'un corps est, croit-on, sémitique. Les peuples proche-orientaux et juifs avaient développé des rituels et des pratiques spécifiques pour s'en débarasser. Les Grecs, pour leur part, avaient parfois à composer avec différentes entités, des daimones, des morts ou des apparitions et parfois des divinités dont les actions pouvaient s'avérer très nuisibles, si ce n'est nettement invasives. Toutefois, la communis opinio maintient que les concepts de la possession et de l'exorcisme ne furent chez eux, que tardivement introduits, et ce,

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Golding, Wendy Rebecca Jennifer. "Perceptions of the serpent in the Ancient Near East : its Bronze Age role in apotropaic magic, healing and protection." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13353.

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In this dissertation I examine the role played by the ancient Near Eastern serpent in apotropaic and prophylactic magic. Within this realm the serpent appears in roles in healing and protection where magic is often employed. The possibility of positive and negative roles is investigated. The study is confined to the Bronze Age in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine. The serpents, serpent deities and deities with ophidian aspects and associations are described. By examining these serpents and deities and their roles it is possible to incorporate a comparative element into his study o

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Śmiejová, Michaela. "Proklínací destičky a jejich archeologický kontext v římské provincie Britannie." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-346925.

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(in English): Curse tablets are interesting phenomenon in the Ancient world. The curses are usully written on the lead tablet. Totally there are about 1500 curses found, from which one third is written in latin and 309 from that amount were founf in Roman Britain. I focus on this countable group in my Diploma Thesis. Firstly I prefer the archaeological side of the artefact. The context is usually the only way to date and understand the curse tablet itself. I offer all the sites where information about them is given. We can talk also about the so called prayers for justice which are quite numer

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Dakkach, Anass. "De Mehen à l’ouroboros : le symbole du serpent circulaire sur les gemmes magiques gréco-romaines." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22011.

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First, Grzegorz. "Bóstwa polimorficzne w późno egipskiej religii i magii : studia nad ikonografią i symboliką." Praca doktorska, 2015. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/45131.

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Clark, Sherryl. "New (Old) Fairy Tales for New Children." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/36015/.

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The creative thesis 'New (Old) Fairy Tales for New Children‘ makes a contribution to the field of creative writing research. It comprises creative work in the form of four fairy tales and a novel for upper primary/early high school readers (70%) and a short exegesis (30%). The creative work uses key fairy tale elements to tell new stories for contemporary children. The four fairy tales are intended to sit within the Western European tradition, drawing on the repetitions, cadence and storytelling voice of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

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