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A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady, who vows to keep herself a maiden. A transformation chase ensues, differing in several variants, but containing such things as she becomes a hare, and he catches her as greyhound, she became a duck and he became either a water dog or a drake. In the Child version of the ballad ...
The tale was collected by Giambattista Basile in Lo cunto de li cunti of 1634, [3] then the Brothers Grimm in their Children's and Household Tales (published in two volumes in 1812 and 1815), [4] although they removed it in editions of 1822 and later, substituting "Brother Lustig" and relegating references to it to the notes for "Gambling ...
Errementari, also known as The Blacksmith and the Devil, is a 2017 internationally co-produced Basque-language period fantasy horror film directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo [] and written by Alijo and Asier Guerricaechebarría.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
Wayland in Fredrik Sander's 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda. In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith (Old English: Wēland; Old Norse: Vǫlundr [ˈvɔlundr̩], Velent; Old Frisian: Wela(n)du; German: Wieland der Schmied; Old High German: Wiolant; Galans (Galant) in Old French; [1] Proto-Germanic: * Wēlandaz from *Wilą-ndz, lit. "crafting one" [2]) is a master blacksmith originating ...
Brancato, a blacksmith from Sicily who immigrated to the Kansas City in 1896, opened Fairyland Park on June 16, 1923. It covered 80 acres at the southern terminus of the Prospect Avenue streetcar ...
The condemnatory version states that as he made the nails to crucify Jesus Christ, the blacksmith and his kin were condemned to wander the earth and never settle. [2]The laudatory version states that a Romani stole the fourth nail of the crucifixion to repair his cart, the fourth nail being the one which would have pierced Jesus's heart, and that ever since God has granted the Romani people ...
Sam Stone was a clothing store operator in Canton during the 1930s. Years later his grandson, investigative reporter and professor Ted Gup, discovered his grandfather also was B. Virdot, the man ...