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Gemory is described in demonological works such as the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic [note 1] [1] [2] [3] the Liber Officiorum Spirituum [note 2] [4] [5] the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, [note 3] [6] the Lesser Key of Solomon, [note 4] [7] the Dictionnaire Infernal, [note 3] [8] as appearing in the form of a beautiful woman (though as with all Goetic demons referred to using the masculine ...
The reaction to the story was extremely warm, but several reviewers expressed their dissatisfaction with its finale. In an 8 January 1888 letter Yakov Polonsky wrote to Chekhov: "For a New Year Day you treated us with two fine stories, "Kashtanka" and "The Easter Tale" [ note 2 ] and I am happy to inform you that everybody here are delighted ...
The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1]
Conte comes from the French word conter, "to relate". [2] The French term conte encompasses a wide range of narrative forms that are not limited to written accounts. No clear English equivalent for conte exists in English as it includes folktales, fairy tales, short stories, oral tales, [3] and to lesser extent fables. [4]
The Lais of Marie de France — twelve canonical lais generally accepted as those of Marie de France.; The so-called Anonymous Lais — eleven lais of disputed authorship. . While these lais are occasionally interspersed with the Marian lais in Medieval manuscripts, scholars do not agree that these lais were actually written by
As the horse Fauvel is about to join Vainglory in the bridal bed, the people form a charivari in protest. From the Roman de Fauvel.. The Roman de Fauvel is a 14th-century French allegorical verse romance of satirical bent, generally attributed to Gervais du Bus [], a clerk at the French royal chancery.
Fictionary, also known as the Dictionary Game [1] or simply Dictionary, [2] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary , and other players composing a fake definition for it.
An old wooden crate, marked from an 1834 Arctic expedition, is discovered by a janitor beneath the basement stairs at the zoology department of Horlicks University. He notifies Dexter Stanley, the school's biology professor, and together they open it to discover the crate contains a small yet powerful – and hungry – beast, still alive after 140 years.