supernatural creatures. Chapter II: Review of the Related Literature Philippines is not new when dealing with vampires‚ werewolves and among others‚ but the monsters that you would know in this article are more feared. Some say that it is just a folklore‚ just like what other countries thought about it‚ but it is not. Many Filipinos have experienced battling with these monsters‚ especially in the remote towns in the Philippines where there is no electricity. This article would surely open your minds
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The Whisperer in Darkness Lovecraft‚ Howard Phillips Published: 1930 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Horror Source: Wikisource 1 About Lovecraft: Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy‚ horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts‚ entities or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds‚ and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has
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INTRODUCTION Oral Communication The word Communication is a process whereby meaning is defined and shared between living organisms. Communication requires a sender‚ a message‚ and an intended recipient‚ although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication
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The word superstition is first used in English in the 15th century‚ modelled after an earlier French superstition. The earliest known use as an English noun occurs in Friar Daw’s Reply (ca. 1420)‚ where the foure general synnes are enumerated as Cediciouns‚ supersticions‚ þe glotouns‚ & þe proude. The French word‚ together with its Romance cognates (Italian superstizione‚ Spanish superstición‚ Portuguese superstição‚ Catalan superstició) continues Latin superstitio. From its first use in the Classical
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There was Cuicho‚ god of the rainbow‚ and Illapu‚ god of weather‚ along with Mama Qoca‚ the sea mother‚ and Paca Mama‚ the earth mother. Folklore was passed on by storytellers and over many generations. Some popular tales included: The Festival of the Sun‚ The Shepherd and the Daughter of the Sun‚ Death of Pachacuti and Three Inca Prayers. Gold was called the “the sweat of the sun” because
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------------------------------------------------- A. K. Ramanujan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the mathematician ‚ see Srinivasa Ramanujan Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (Kannada: ಅತ್ತಿಪೇಟೆ ಕೃಷ್ಣಸ್ವಾಮಿ ರಾಮಾನುಜನ್) (1929–1993) was a scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan wore many hats as a Indian poet‚ scholar and author‚ those of a philologist‚ folklorist‚ translator‚ poet and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil
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Comparative Analysis of Yeats The Second Coming and Achebe Things Fall Apart The poem‚ The Second Coming‚ by Yeats‚ and the novel Things Fall Apart‚ by Achebe‚ both describe the forceful colonization in which traditions‚ families‚ and lives fall apart. Yeats was born in Ireland and Achebe was from the Igbo culture in Nigeria. Both authors write from a perspective of the colonized and both publications are similar in their socio-cultural implications‚ rhetorical devices‚ and content. The socio-cultural
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Reflection The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow is a story of a headless horseman searching for his missing head. In the story‚ the headless horseman used to cut heads by whoever his controller wants or asks him to be beheaded. It is a story that has a mixture of different witchcrafts produced by some of the major characters.If we say witchcraft‚ these pertains to a sorcery as practiced by a witch or witches usually with the aid or through the medium of an evil spirit. The start of the story easily
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Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts
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Pocahontas and Capttain John Smith. About the art Grant Wood wanted to preserve the traditional American folklore represented in Parson Weems’ Fable when‚ during a period following the Depression‚ some intellectuals wanted to do away with many of our American myths and folktales. In this painting‚ Wood wanted to help reawaken interest in the cherry tree and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.This painting presents Parson Mason Locke Weems pulling back the curtain to show
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