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Peeps Into Fairyland, The Bible, The Legend Of Glastonbury, The Sermon On The Mount, Countryside Treasures Horace John Knowles ( 22 July 1884 – 21 August 1954 ) was an author and illustrator . He is remembered mostly for magical depictions of Fairyland in his magnum opus Peeps into Fairyland , [ 1 ] as well as for his biblical illustrations.
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
Nevertheless, "fairy" has come to be used as a kind of umbrella term in folklore studies, grouping comparable types of supernatural creatures since at least the 1970s. [1] The following list is a collection of individual traditions which have been grouped under the "fairy" moniker in the citation given.
In contrast to Holbrook, Laura Miller's The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Guide to Narnia (2008) finds in the Narnia books a deep spiritual and moral meaning from a non-religious perspective. Blending autobiography and literary criticism, Miller (a co-founder of Salon.com) discusses how she resisted her Catholic upbringing as a child; she loved ...
The Fall of Man: Although the Book of Genesis does not mention original sin, many Christians interpret the Fall as the origin of sin. Noah's Ark; The Tower of Babel: the origin and division of nations and languages; The life of Abraham; The Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt; The Hebrews' conquest of the Promised Land; The period of the Hebrew ...
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
Another view found in a popular Greek Orthodox Catechism, is that the living creatures represent four covenants given to mankind. The lion represents the Noahic covenant in the sign of the rainbow, the ox represents the Abrahamic covenant of circumcision , the man represents Moses giving the law, and the eagle represents the new covenant Gospel ...
Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.