La légende du roi Arthur
À l’occasion des trois expositions consacrées à la légende du roi Arthur, les Champs Libres, la "Bibliothèque nationale de France", la médiathèque de Troyes et le château de Chantilly proposent un voyage à travers leurs collections arthuriennes.
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Pliny's Haunted House
A Latin Ghost Story
By N.S. Gill
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Seattle Underground Tour in Photos
By Pamela Wiggins
Haunted Tour Inside the "Haunted" Vault on Seattle Underground Tour
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5 Haunted Asian Historical Sites
Five of the Spookiest Places in Asia
By Kallie Szczepanski
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Haunted Eastern Europe
Spooky Destinations
By Kerry Kubilius
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Haunted Prague
Ghosts of the Czech Capital
By Kerry Kubilius
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Haunted Czech Republic
Ghosts and Demons of Famous Locations
By Kerry Kubilius
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Haunted Poland
White Ladies, Dragons, and other Ghosts
By Kerry Kubilius
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Haunted Transylvania
Ghosts and Vampires in Romania
By Kerry Kubilius
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haunt
Hear it!
HANT (s.xii2/4)
haant; haunt, haunte;
pl. hans
[ FEW: 16,190b heimta; Gdf: 4,415a hant; GdfC: Ø; TL: 4,884 hant /4,887 hante 1; DEAF: *H144 hanter; DMF: hante; TLF: Ø; OED: haunt n.; MED: haunt n.; DMLBS: Ø ]
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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
The House on Haunted Hill - Free - Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a “haunted house party.” (1959)
haunt
ide. "tkei-"
DEFINITION: To "settle", "dwell", "be home". Oldest form "*tkei-", becoming "*tkei-" in centum languages.
Derivatives include "home", "hangar", and "situate".
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haunted // v. p.part. lucky - origins of this usage obscure. 'The weather was great - we were haunted', Cork.
A Haunted Man
haunted
Oistins, Barbados
The Chase Vault
A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put
tombs, haunted
20 Mar 2015
Lud's Church
Staffordshire, England
Lud's Church
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend
legends, hidden, geological oddities
17 Mar 2015
Nevertold Casket Company
Seattle, Washington
Nevertold Casket Company
This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time
wunderkammer, haunted, commercial curiosities
06 Mar 2015
Hell House Altar
Ilchester, Maryland
Hell House Altar
This haunting stone gazebo is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends
haunted, ruins, abandoned
05 Mar 2015
POSTER FROM ACADEMY CINEMA, OXFORD STREET
This is my poster from the Academy Cinema, a film club in Oxford Street, which was a favourite haunt of art house cinema buffs in the 1960s. They had a Laurence Olivier Season every year as well as regularly showing foreign films which the Censor of the time wouldn't tolerate.
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Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
- Haunted Land, A (novel by Stow)
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House (film by Yarbrough)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
by
Charles Dickens
Free Public Domain E-Books from the Classic Literature Library
Three Ghost Stories: The Haunted House
by
Charles Dickens
Free Public Domain E-Books from the Classic Literature Library
The Haunting Ghost Shark
- Der Fluch der Betsy Bell - An American Haunting
- Haunted - Haus der Geister
- Haunted Hill
Haunting Refrains
- Haunted
- Haunted (1967)
- Haunted (2002)
- Haunted Collector
- The Haunted Hathaways
- Haunted Highway
- A Haunting
- Haunting Evidence
- The Haunting Hour
- Haunting Women [radio]
"haunt" (v.) early 13c., "to practice habitually", "busy oneself with", "take part in", from Old French hanter "to frequent", "resort to", "be familiar with" (12c.), probably from Old Norse "heimta" "bring home", from Proto-Germanic "*haimat-janan", from "*haimaz-" (see "home"). Meaning "to frequent (a place)" is c. 1300 in English. Use in reference to a spirit returning to the house where it had lived perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but it was reinforced by Shakespeare's plays, and it is first recorded 1590 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Related: "Haunted"; "haunting". Middle English "hauntingly" meant "frequently;" sense of "so as to haunt one's thoughts or memory" is from 1859.
"haunt" (n.) "place frequently visited", c. 1300, also in Middle English, "habit", "custom" (early 14c.), from "haunt" (v.). The meaning "spirit that haunts a place", "ghost" is first recorded 1843, originally in stereotypical U.S. black speech.
Haunted (GB 1967) | Haunted (USA 2002) | Haunted Junction (J 1999)
Most Haunted (GB 2002)
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- Adams, Henry Gardiner: Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds, Second Series - Described and Illustrated; with an Account of the Haunts and Habits of the Feathered Architects, and their Times and Modes of Building (English) (as Author)
- Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919: Shapes that Haunt the Dusk (English) (as Editor)
- A. L. O. E., 1821-1893: Tucker, Charlotte Maria - The Haunted Room: A Tale (English) (as Author)
- Benson, William, 1682-1754: His Homes and Haunts (English) (as Author)
- Buck, Margaret Warriner: The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits (English) (as Illustrator)
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867: The Haunters of the Silences
- Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932: The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life (English) (as Illustrator)
- Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of, 1847-1900: Botha, Joannes Patricus, marchio - Crichton-Stuart, John Patrick, Marquess of Bute - Stuart, John Patrick Crichton-, Marquess of Bute: The Alleged Haunting of B—House - Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor (English) (as Editor)
- Carr, Annie Roe: Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall; Or, The Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse (English) (as Author)
- Castlemon, Harry, 1842-1915 - Fosdick, Charles Austin: The Haunted Mine (English) (as Author)
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889: The Haunted Hotel (English) (as Author)
- De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin): Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (English) (as Author)
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (English) (as Author)
- Duchess, 1855?-1897: The Haunted Chamber
- Elliott, Francis Perry: The Haunted Pajamas (English) (as Author)
- Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866: Haunted London (English) (as Illustrator)
- Ferguson, Donald: The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path - Or, The Mystery of the Haunted Quarry (English) (as Author)
- Ferguson, Donald: The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path - Or, The Mystery of the Haunted Quarry (English) (as Author)
- Fitzhugh, Percy Keese, 1876-1950: Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp (English) (as Author)
- Forestier, A. (Amédée), 1854-1930: William Shakespeare - His Homes and Haunts (English) (as Illustrator)
- Frederick, Edmund, 1870-: The Haunted Pajamas (English) (as Illustrator)
- Goodrich-Freer, A. (Ada), 1865-1931 - Freer, Ada Goodrich - Spoer, H. H., Mrs.: The Alleged Haunting of B—House - Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor (English) (as Editor)
- Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938: American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club (English) (as Editor)
Harris, J. W. (John William), 1849-: Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men (English) (as Author) Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864: The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") (English) (as Author) Hewet, Henry W. : Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. I (of 2) (English) (as Illustrator) Hewet, Henry W. : Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets, Vol. II (of 2) (English) (as Illustrator) Hope, Laura Lee: The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley (English) (as Author) Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920: Shapes that Haunt the Dusk (English) (as Editor) Howe, William F., 1828-1902: Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations - The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. (English) (as Author) Howitt, William, 1792-1879: Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. I (of 2) (English) (as Author) Howitt, William, 1792-1879: Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets, Vol. II (of 2) (English) (as Author) Hubbell, Walter, 1851-1932: The Haunted House: A True Ghost Story - Being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire dominion as the great Amherst mystery (English) (as Author) Hummel, Abraham H., 1849-1926: Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations - The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. (English) (as Author)
- Johns, Rev. C. A.: British Birds in their Haunts (English) (as Author)
- Jones, Charles Albert - Jones, Burt: Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life (English) (as Author)
- Lee, Gerald Stanley, 1862-1944: The Ghost in the White House - Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want (English) (as Author)
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 - Paget, Violet: Hauntings - Fantastic Stories (English) (as Author)
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 - Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le: J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 - The Haunted Baronet (1871) (English) (as Author)
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 - Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron: The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain (English) (as Author)
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 - Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron: Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters - An Unfinished Historical Romance (English) (as Author)
- Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891:Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters - An Unfinished Historical Romance (English) (as Editor)
- Miller, Lewis: The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico (English) (as Author)
- Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957: The Haunted Bookshop (English) (as Author)
- O'Donnell, Elliott, 1872-1965: Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter (English) (as Author)
- O'Donnell, Elliott, 1872-1965: Haunted Places in England (English) (as Author)
- Owen, Robert Emmett, 1878-1957: Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp (English) (as Illustrator)
- Parsons, Frances Theodora: How to Know the Ferns - A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habitats of Our Common Ferns (English) (as Author)
- Parsons, Mary Elizabeth: The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits (English) (as Author)
- Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946: The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural (English) (as Editor)
- Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943: The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life (English) (as Author)
- Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959: The Haunting of Low Fennel — The Valley of the Just — The Blue Monkey — The Riddle of Ragstaff — The Master of Hollow Grange — The Curse of a Thousand Kisses — The Turquoise Necklace (English) (as Author)
- Satterlee, Marion: How to Know the Ferns - A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habitats of Our Common Ferns (English) (as Illustrator)
- Smith, Alice Josephine: How to Know the Ferns - A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habitats of Our Common Ferns (English) (as Illustrator)
- Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899: The Haunted Homestead: A Novel (English) (as Author)
- Sutton, Margaret: The Haunted Fountain (A Judy Bolton Mystery) (English) (as Author)
- Taylor, Joseph, 1762?-1844: Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed (English) (as Author)
- Thompson, Alexander M. (Alexander Mattock), 1861-1948: The Haunts of Old Cockaigne (English) (as Author)
- Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876: Haunted London (English) (as Author)
- Walford, Edward: Haunted London (English) (as Editor)
- Widdemer, Margaret, 1884-1978: The Haunted Hour: An Anthology (English) (as Compiler)
- Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002: Dan Carter and the Haunted Castle (English) (as Author)
- Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen): A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors (English) (as Author)
- Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen): Literary Shrines - The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors (English) (as Author)
- Wyckoff, Capwell, 1903-1953: The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge (English) (as Author)
The Haunting of Bikini Atoll
Created Mar 21, 2011 | Updated Mar 22, 2011
MEN OTEMJEJ REJ ILO BEIN ANIJ. (Everything is in the hands of God)
- Motto on the flag of Bikini Atoll
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The Haunting of Esther Cox
Top 5 Real-life Haunted Houses
Family Vacations: Spooky Cemeteries and Haunted House Tours
How Haunted Houses Work
- Houses to Avoid on Halloween - And How to Die Quickly if You Can't 2014-10-26 Funny, Haunted House, Horro, Horror Movie, House, Houses, Movie Rules, Rules, Scary Movie
- A Fisher Cat is Haunted by all the Worms it has Killed 2014-10-18 Anomation, Earthworm Heart, Tom Fun Orchestra, Trunk Animation, Video
- The Scream 2013-05-29 Animated, Animation, Cool, Edvard Munch, Haunting, Pink Floyd, The Scream
- Haunted Walls: The Abandoned Zagórz Monsastery, Poland 2013-03-31 Cool, Haunted, Monastery, Poland, Polish, Scary, time-lapse, Timelapse, Zagórz
- Bhangarh - India’s Haunted City 2012-11-11 Abandoned, Bhangarh, City, Delhi, Ghosts, Guru, Haunted, Hindu, India, Indian, Jaipur, Maharana, Photographs of, Pictures, Rajasthan, Ruins, Shiva, Story
- Houses to Avoid on Halloween - And How to Die Quickly if You Can't 2012-10-21 Funny, Haunted House, Horro, Horror Movie, House, Houses, Movie Rules, Rules, Scary Movie
- Roche Rock - Where Tristan and Isolde Hid in Plain Sight 2012-08-16 Abandoned, Chapel, Cornwall, ghost, Ghostly, Ghosts, Haunted, Hermitage, Kernow, King Mark, Roche Rock, St Austell, Supernatural, Tregeagle, Tristan and Isolde
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Sharon Hill
Weird Word Salad: The Terminology of the Unexplained
Posted: 05/19/2013
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There is a problem with how the word "paranormal" is used because it is often utilized in a way that is perhaps not consistent with the original intent.
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"Paranormal" and other terms for strange goings-on have changed over time. The word "paranormal" was coined around 1920. It means "beside, above or beyond normal". Therefore, it's anything that isn't "normal" - or, more precisely, it is used as a label for any phenomenon that appears to defy scientific understanding.
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The term "paranormal" used to just mean extrasensory perception and psychic power but, since the 1970s in particular - thanks to TV shows and proliferation of the subject in popular culture - the term expanded in scope to include all mysterious phenomena seemingly shunned by standard scientific study. It was a convenient way to bring many similarly peculiar topics under one heading for ease of marketing. So today, it can include everything that sounds mysterious: UFOs, hauntings, monster sightings, strange disappearances, anomalous natural phenomena, coincidences, as well as psychic powers.
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haunted
Haunted, The
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground Jonathan Lighter
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground Alison Murie
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground Kari Castor
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground George Thompson
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground Jonathan Lighter
House on Haunted Hill
Der Fluch der Betsy Bell - An American Haunting
2008 October 30: Haunting the Cepheus Flare
October 31 1997: Haunting Mars
"Waterphone": Haunting creation invented by Richard A. Waters
Search Results for "haunt" — 24 match(es) (in Shakespeares Werken)
haunt (17) | haunted (7) | haunting (2) | haunts (9) | temple-haunting (1)
engl. "old haunts" = "häufig besuchte Orte", "die Lieblingsplätze"
Rock Ringtail Possum, Rock-Haunting Ringtail, Dahl's Ringtail Phalanger
Haunted Scottish Castles
It is hardly surprising that many of Scotland's castles are associated with ghosts, apparitions and strange noises - they have histories in some cases stretching back over 600 years. Here is just a selection of thirty of them (from a list of 150 known to have a reputation!), plus links to castle web sites where you can learn more about the castles and see illustrations of the buildings (but probably not the ghosts...)
- Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
- Ackergill Tower, Caithness
- Auchen Castle, Dumfries and Galloway
- Balcomie Castle, Fife
- Baldoon Castle, Galloway
- Borthwick Castle, Lothian
- Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran
- Cawdor Castle
- Claypotts Castle, Angus
- Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire
- Craignethan Castle, Lanark
- Dean Castle, Ayrshire
- Delgatie Castle, Turriff
- Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland
- Duns Castle, Berwickshire
- Dunstaffnage Castle, Oban
- Edinburgh Castle
- Fernie Castle, Fife
- Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire
- Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire
- Glamis Castle
- Castle Grant, Grantown-on-Spey
- Castle Guthrie, Angus
- Hermitage Castle, Borders
- Huntingtower Castle, Perthshire
- Inveraray Castle
- Lordscairnie Castle, Fife
- Neidpath Castle, Peebles
- Castle of Park, Banff
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Les maisons hantées américaines aux XIXe et XXe siècles
The Haunted House in Contemporary Filmic and Literary Gothic Narratives of Trauma
Monica Michlin
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Les maisons hantées américaines aux XIXe et XXe siècles
The Mechanics of Fear: Organic Haunted Houses in American Cinema
Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
Résumé
Most haunted house narratives, whether literary or filmic, are based on the same basic principle of intrusion of some outside, usually unidentified force which sows the seeds of chaos and destruction within the boundaries of a home. What is particularly fascinating is precisely the way in which the group, and most often the family, reacts to this external force. But the whole point is also to determine the exact nature of the threat and to assess who—or what—the intruder is, so as to circumscribe “it” and return the community to some form of normality. In this respect, even though a direct descendant of a more conventional haunted house film genre, the 1980s family horror imposes a reversal of viewpoints. It actually seems to be reverting to some more classical Hollywood narrative structures after the bloodbaths of the previous decade in horror feasts, such as The Hills Have Eyes (1977) or Dawn of the Dead (1978), which argued then for a new form of society. It also demonstrates how the outside-the-norm entity is finally not considered exogenous any more but rather endogenous and how it appropriates and somehow tries to incorporate some, if not all, members of the household.
In his 1981 film The Entity, Sidney Furie stages Barbara Hershey’s body (Carla Moran) as a vehicle for the revelation process and in their 1982 Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg also use young Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) as a medium in very different kinds of houses, no longer darkened and isolated in some desolate part of the American East Coast but now part of the West Coast urban sprawl. Not unlike the next houses on the block, sometimes even belonging to the same housing development, they nevertheless come alive through the impetus given by some obscure catalizer. The same question reemerges: what are the true nature and impact of the haunting in such nondescript places?
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Playing diversely on the Greek etymology of the term "phenomenon" ("phainestai"/"to appear"), writers and directors alike focus on the apparitional modes of the various manifestations emanating from the haunted houses.
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cunny-haunted
- haunt (n.) 1 public places, society, company
- haunt (n.) 2 frequent resort, regular visit
- haunt (v.) 1 frequent, visit habitually
- haunt (v.) 2 pursue, afflict, beset
haunted house
Haunted - Haus der Geister
Haunted House - by Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Haunted Heart - by Sammy Kershaw
U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To) - by Brandy feat Shaunta & Da Brat
Say You'll Haunt Me - by Stone Sour
2013 - Came Back Haunted - by Nine Inch Nails
1167 Top Ten Grammar Errors that Haunt Web Pages
"verwunschenes Haus", auch: "Spukhaus", "Spukzimmer"; engl.: "haunted house"
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The Haunted Oak
Idea XX
Drayton, Michael (1563 - 1631)
1 An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still,
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The Haunted Hotel 1879
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Wilkie Collins
Free Public Domain Books from the Classic Literature Library
The Haunting in Connecticut
Free Public Domain's presentation of Fairy Tales is an attempt to welcome the young and young-at-heart into the wonderful and magical land of Fairy Tales. This site presently lists hundreds of tales from The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights Entertainments, Blue Fairy Book, Crimson Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, Violet Fairy Book, and the Yellow Fairy Book, and will be an on-going project to bring to you Fairy Tales from around the world.
Where possible, Free Public domain has included the original editor's notes so that you the viewer can get an idea of the light in which these Fairy Tales were viewed by the Editors.
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Blue Fairy Book
Table of Contents
THE BRONZE RING | PRINCE HYACINTH AND THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS | EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON | THE YELLOW DWARF LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD | THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD | CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER | ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP | THE TALE OF A YOUTH WHO SET OUT TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS | RUMPELSTILTZKIN | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | THE MASTER-MAID | WHY THE SEA IS SALT | THE MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS | FELICIA AND THE POT OF PINKS | THE WHITE CAT | THE WATER-LILY. THE GOLD-SPINNERS | THE TERRIBLE HEAD | THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS | THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON | THE WONDERFUL SHEEP | LITTLE THUMB | THE FORTY THIEVES | HANSEL AND GRETTEL | SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED | THE GOOSE-GIRL | TOADS AND DIAMONDS | PRINCE DARLING | BLUE BEARD | TRUSTY JOHN | THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR | A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT | THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL | THE STORY OF PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PARIBANOU | THE HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER | THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY | THE RED ETIN
Crimson Fairy Book
Table of Contents
Preface | Lovely Ilonka | Lucky Luck | The Hairy Man | To your Good Health! | The Story of the Seven Simons | The Language of Beasts | The Boy who could keep a Secret | The Prince and the Dragon | Little Wildrose | Tiidu the Piper | Paperarello | The Gifts of the Magician | The Strong Prince | The Treasure Seeker | The Cottager and his Cat | The Prince who would seek Immortality | The Stone-cutter | The Gold-bearded Man | Tritill, Litill, and the Birds | The Three Robes | The Six Hungry Beasts | How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro | The Rogue and the Herdsman | Eisenkopf | The Death of Abu Nowas and of his Wife | Motikatika | Niels and the Giants | Shepherd Paul | How the wicked Tanuki was punished | The Crab and the Monkey | The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder | The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor | The Colony of Cats | How to find out a True Friend | Clever Maria | The Magic Kettle
Red Fairy Book
Table of Contents
Introduction | The Twelve Dancing Princesses | The Princess Mayblossom | Soria Moria Castle | The Death of Koschei the Deathless | The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen | The Master Thief | Brother and Sister | Princess Rosette | The Enchanted Pig | The Norka | The Wonderful Birch | Jack and the Beanstalk | The Little Good Mouse | Graciosa and Percinet | The Three Princesses of Whiteland | The Voice of Death | The Six Sillies | Kari Woodengown | Drakestail | The Ratcatcher | The True History of Little Goldenhood | The Golden Branch | The Three Dwarfs | Dapplegrim | The Enchanted Canary | The Twelve Brothers | The Nettle Spinner | Farmer Weatherbeard | Mother Holle | Minnikin | Bushy Bride | Snowdrop | The Golden Goose | The Seven Foals | The Marvellous Musician | The Story of Sigurd
Yellow Fairy Book
Table of Contents
Introduction | The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership | The Six Swans | The Dragon of the North | Story of the Emperor's New Clothes | The Golden Crab | The Iron Stove | The Dragon and his Grandmother | The Donkey Cabbage | The Little Green Frog | The Seven-headed Serpent | The Grateful Beasts | The Giants and the Herd-boy | The Invisible Prince | The Crow | How Six Men travelled through the Wide World | The Wizard King | The Nixy | The Glass Mountain | Alphege, or the Green Monkey | Fairer-than-a-Fairy | The Three Brothers | The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise | The Glass Axe | The Dead Wife | In the Land of Souls | The White Duck | The Witch and her Servants | The Magic Ring | The Flower Queen's Daughter | The Flying Ship | The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son | The Story of King Frost | The Death of the Sun-hero | The Witch | The Hazel-nut Child | The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus | Prince Ring | The Swineherd | How to tell a True Princess | The Blue Mountains | The Tinder-box | The Witch in the Stone Boat | Thumbelina | The Nightingale | Hermod and Hadvor | The Steadfast Tin-soldier | Blockhead Hans | A Story about a Darning-needle
Violet Fairy Book
Table of Contents
Introduction | A Tale of the Tontlawald | The Finest Liar in the World | The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars | Schippeitaro | The Three Princes and Their Beasts | The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan | The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples | The Lute Player | The Grateful Prince | The Child Who Came From An Egg | Stan Bolovan | The Two Frogs | The Story of a Gazelle | How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water | Two In a Sack | The Envious Neighbour | The Fairy of the Dawn | The Enchanted Knife | Jesper Who Herded the Hares | The Underground Workers | The History of Dwarf Long Nose | The Nunda, Eater of People | The Story of Hassebu | The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet | The Monkey and the Jelly-fish | The Headless Dwarfs | The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened | The Boys With the Golden Stars | The Frog | The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground | The Girl Who Pretended To Be A Boy | The Story of Halfman | The Prince Who Wanted To See the World | Virgililus the Sorcerer | Mogarzea and his Son
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Der Teufel schickte ihn zurück woher er gekommen war - und weil es so dunkel, kalt und windig und der Weg so weit war, bekam Jack ein Stück Kohle direkt aus dem Höllenfeuer mit auf den Weg.
Jack legte die glühende Kohle in eine ausgehöhlte Rübe damit sie nicht verlöschte und machte sich auf. Seitdem wandelt seine verdammte Seele mit der Laterne am Vorabend von Allerheiligen durch die Dunkelheit - bis zum Tag des jüngsten Gerichts ...
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1387, "branch of speculation which deals with the first causes of things," from M.L. "metaphysica", neut. pl. of Medieval Gk. "(ta) metaphysika", from Gk. "ta meta ta physika" = "the (works) after the Physics," title of the 13 treatises which traditionally were arranged after those on physics and natural sciences in Aristotle's writings. The name was given c.70 B.C.E. by Andronicus of Rhodes, and was a ref. to the customary ordering of the books, but it was misinterpreted by L. writers as meaning "the science of what is beyond the physical." Hence, "metaphysical" came to be used in the sense of "abstract, speculative" (e.g. by Johnson, who applied it to certain 17c. poets, notably Donne and Cowley, who used "witty conceits" and abstruse imagery). The word originally was used in Eng. in the singular; plural form predominated after 17c., but singular made a comeback late 19c. in certain usages under Ger. influence.
"Ouija knows all the answers. Weird and mysterious. Surpasses, in its unique results, mind reading, clairvoyance and second sight. It furnishes never failing amusement and recreation for the entire family. As unexplainable as Hindu magic—more intense and absorbingly interesting than a mystery story. Ouija gives you entertainment you have never experienced. It draws the two people using it into close companionship and weaves about them a feeling of mysterious isolation. Unquestionably the most fascinating entertainment for modern people and modern life."
With these words, William Fuld (businessman, designer, toy maker, with no branch factories or offices) invites you, the American people, to enter the strange, twilight world of Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board.
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"revenant":Etymology: from the present participle "revenir" = "to return", from Old French, see "revenue".
- Someone who returns from a long absence.
- A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
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Word History: ... In French "revenant" is the present participle of "revenir" = "to return". "Revenue" = "that which is returned", is the feminine past participle of the same verb. This verb comprises "re-" = "back", "again" + "venir" = "to come". "Venir", believe it or not, goes back to the same source as English "come": Proto-Indo-European "*gwe(m)-" = "to go", "come". Greek "bainein" = "to walk" shares the same origin. We met this word in the Good Word history of "acerbate".
ETYMOLOGY: French, from present participle of "revenir" = "to return", from Old French. See "revenue".
- "revenant", NOUN:
- 1. One that returns after a lengthy absence.
- 2. One who returns after death.
"revenue", NOUN:ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past participle of "revenir" = "to return", from Latin "revenre" : "re-", + "venere" = "to come"; see "*gw-" in Appendix I.
- 1. The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.
- 2. Yield from property or investment; income.
- 3. All the income produced by a particular source.
- 4. A governmental department set up to collect public funds.
Appendix I - Indo-European Roots
ENTRY: "*gw-"
DEFINITION: Also "gwem-" = "To go", "come". Oldest form "*gwee-", colored to "*gwae-", contracted to "*gwa-".
Derivatives include "welcome", "adventure", "souvenir", "acrobat", and "diabetes".
(Pokorny "gua-" 463.)
- 1a. "come", from Old English "cuman" = "to come";
- 1b. "welcome", from Old English "wilcuma" = "a welcome guest", and "wilcume", the greeting of welcome, from Germanic compound "*wil-kumen-", a desirable guest ("*wil-" = "desirable"; see "wel-" (1)), from "*kumen-", he who comes, a guest;
- 1c. "become", from Old English "becuman" = "to become", from Germanic compound "*bi-kuman" = "to arrive", "come to be" ("*bi-", intensive prefix; see "ambhi").
- 1a–1c all from Germanic "*kuman".
- 2. Suffixed form "*gwem-yo-", "*gwm-yo-" = "venire", "venue"; "advent", "adventitious", "adventure", "avenue", "circumvent", "contravene", "convene", "convenient", "convent", "conventicle", "convention", "coven", "covenant", "event", "eventual", "intervene", "invent", "inventory", "misadventure", "parvenu", "prevenient", "prevent", "provenance", "provenience", "revenant", "revenue", "souvenir", "subvention", "supervene", from Latin "venre" = "to come".
- 3. Suffixed zero-grade form "*gwm-yo-" = "base" (1), "basis"; "abasia", "acrobat", "adiabatic", "amphisbaena", "anabaena", "anabasis", "batophobia", "diabase", "diabetes", "hyperbaton", "katabatic", "stereobate", "stylobate", from Greek "bainein" = "to go", "walk", "step", with "basis" (- "*gwe-ti-", suffixed zero-grade form of "*gwa-"), a stepping, tread, base, "-batos" (- "*gwe-to-), going, and "-bates" (- "*gwe-ta-), agential suffix, “one that goes or treads, one that is based”.
- 4. Suffixed zero-grade form "*gwe-u-", "*gw-u-" in compound "*pres-gwu-" (see "per" (1)).
- 5. Basic form "*gwa-". bema, from Greek "bema", step, seat, raised platform.
- 6. Reduplicated form "*gwe-gwa-". juggernaut, from Sanskrit "jagat", moving, the world, originally present participle of "*jagati" (remade as "jigati"), he goes.
The Word of the Year for 2016
By Mark Nichol
Each year, several major lexicographers release their word of the year—the term that, among the most frequently looked-up words during the previous twelve months, has most prominently captured the zeitgeist. This post discusses the 2016 selections.
Merriam-Webster selected "surreal", a word apropos for a year in which various seemingly irrational, inexplicable events occurred. The dictionary company announced that a significant spike in the number of people who looked up the word occurred three times during the year, including after Election Day in the United States.
"Surreal" was coined about a hundred years ago by a group of artists responding to Sigmund Freud’s recent explication of the concept of the unconscious mind; they called their movement "surrealism", and the art the "surrealists" produced was marked by fantastic and incongruous imagery or elements. The prefix "sur-", meaning "above" or "over", is seen in other words such as "surname" ("beyond name") and "surrender" ("give over").
Among the other words Merriam-Webster noted as being frequently looked up during the year include "revenant", meaning "one who returns"; the attention was prompted by its use in the title of a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a man left for dead who seeks vengeance on those who abandoned him.
Another is "feckless", meaning "ineffective" or "irresponsible". Derived from the Scots word "feck", an alteration of "effect", the word gained attention when Mike Pence, the US vice president-elect, uttered it in a debate against his Democratic Party rival, Tim Kaine. ("Feck" and "feckful" are now obsolete, and "feckless" is rare.)
"Icon", ultimately from the Greek verb "eikenai", meaning "resemble", was yet another; the death of the musician who (usually) called himself Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) prompted lookups for this word meaning "idol" or "symbol". (Interestingly, for a time he employed a glyph, or symbol, in place of his name.) Words with "icon" as a root include "iconography", meaning "depiction of icons", and "iconoclast", meaning "destroyer of icons".
The Oxford English Dictionary chose as its Word of the Year "post-truth", signifying the growing trend toward subordination of objective truth to appeals to emotion and personal belief when weighing decisions. (In American English, the prefix "post" is usually not hyphenated, but British English tends to retain the hyphen in such usage, and usage of this word in the United States tends to follow that style.)
Meanwhile, the word selected by Dictionary.com to represent the preceding year is "xenophobia", meaning "fear or hatred of strangers or the unknown". (In Greek, "xenos" means "stranger" — but also "guest" — and "phobia" is derived from the Greek word "phobos", meaning "fear".)
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revenant, noun...
- a person who returns.
- a person who returns as a spirit after death; ghost.
- a corpse reanimated by a supernatural force; an undead being.
revenant (n.)
"one who returns", especially after a long absence; "a ghost, one who returns from the dead", 1814 (in "Rosanne" by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins), from French "revenant" (fem. "revenante"), noun use of present participle of "revenir" = "to return" (see "revenue").
revenue (n.)
early 15c., "income from property or possessions", from Old French "revenue" = "a return", noun use of fem. past participle of "revenir" = "come back" (10c.), from Latin "revenire" = "return", "come back", from "re-" = "back" (see "re-") + "venire" = "to come" (from a suffixed form of PIE root "*gwa-" = "to go", "come").
The meaning "public income", "annual income of a government or state" is recorded from 1680s; "revenue" sharing was popularized from 1971, the Nixon Administration's policy of returning power to state and local governments by steering federal taxpayer money to them. "Revenuer" = "U.S. Department of Revenue agent", the bane of Appalachian moonshiners, is attested by 1880.
"*gwa-", also "*gwem-", Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to go", "come".
It forms all or part of:It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit "gamati" = "he goes", Avestan "jamaiti" = "goes", Tocharian "kakmu" = "come", Lithuanian "gemu", "gimti" = "to be born", Greek "bainein" = "to go", "walk", "step", Latin "venire" = "to come", Old English "cuman" = "come", "approach", German "kommen", Gothic "qiman".
- acrobat
- adiabatic
- advent
- adventitious
- adventure
- amphisbaena
- anabasis
- avenue
- base (n.) "bottom of anything";
- basis
- become
- circumvent
- come
- contravene
- convene
- convenience (n.)
- convenient
- convent
- conventicle
- convention
- conventional (adj.)
- coven
- covenant
- diabetes
- ecbatic
- event
- eventual
- hyperbaton
- hypnobate
- intervene
- intervenient
- intervent (v.)
- intervention
- invent
- invention
- inventor (n.)
- inventory
- juggernaut
- katabatic
- misadventure
- parvenu
- presby-
- prevenient
- prevent
- provenance
- provenience
- revenant
- revenue
- souvenir
- subvention
- supervene
- venire
- venue
- welcome
Final Hollywood Awards of the 2015 Season — Top HollyWords
"Revenant" Takes Top Honors
Thirteenth Annual Survey
The Year in Film as Reflected in the English Language
Austin, Texas, March 21, 2016. "Revenant" from "The Revenant" has been named the Top HollyWord of the Year by the Global Language Monitor in its thirteenth annual global survey Internet MediaBuzz Survey.
These were followed by ‘ ’ from Selma, and ‘’ from Alice, “ ” from Boyhood, and ‘best and whitest’ from the awards ceremony itself rounded out the top five. [???]
Each year, GLM announces the words after the Oscars at the conclusion of the motion picture awards season. The 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 22, 2014. Neil Patrick Harris was the host for the first time, to generally mixed reviews.
“Words from "American Sniper" and "Selma" took top honors in a year of taunt scripts and memorable quips” said Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst for the Global Language Monitor. “The films this year spanned an exceptionally wide range of topics from the inner workings of the mind to the farthest reaches of outer space.”
The Top Hollywords of the 2015 season with commentary follow.
Rank / Word or Phrase / CommentaryPrevious Top Hollyword Winners include:
- "Revenant" ("The Revenant") — the word itself is a "revenant" — returning from the dead.
- "Brooklyn" ("Brooklyn") — "Brooklyn", itself, is enjoying an unprecedented renaissance … since the Dodgers abandoned the Borough for SoCal.
- "Schiaparelli" — ("The Martian") — A name not mentioned in the film, but the Italian Astronomer who first caused the first Mars s hypothesis about Martian "Canals".
- "The World" ("Room") — You are going to love it? Love what? The World.
- "Blacklist" ("Trombo") — The Hollywood blacklist was but a window into a country-wide hysteria.
- "Oscars" ("OscarsSoWhite") — Perhaps the longest lasting legacy from this year’s Oscars.
- "Post-Apocalyptic" ("Mad Max") — It’s a relief to talk about the coming Apocalypse in past tense.
- "Quant" ("Big Short") — Quants are people, too.
- "Reality Distortion Zone" ("Steve Jobs") — Apparently, the Zone was more effective outside Apple, Inc. than within the Executive Ranks.
- "Mean Streets" ("Straight Outta Compton") — There are over 50,000 citations with the words ‘mean streets’ linked to Compton on Google.
Methodology. Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogs the latest trends in word usage and word choices and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. This exclusive ranking is based on GLM’s Narrative Tracking technology. NarrativeTracker analyzes the Internet, blogosphere, the top 250,000 print, and electronic news media, as well as new social media sources (such as Twitter) as they emerge. The words, phrases, and concepts are tracked in relation to their frequency, contextual usage and appearance in global media outlets.
- 2014 "Your call". ("American Sniper") — Chris Kyle’s ultimate dilemma that he faced hundreds of times
- 2013 "The F-Word", prevalent in scores of films.
- 2012 "Emancipation" — (Lincoln, Django, Argo) — Webster says ‘to free from restraint, control, or the power of another’.
- 2011 "Silence" – Silent movies, (the Artist), a wife’s silence (Descendants), a father’s silence (Extremely Loud), silence among the trenches of WWI (Warhorse).
- 2010 "Grit" — firmness, pluck, gritty, stubborn, indomitable spirit, courageous, and brave perseverance.
- 2009 "Pandora" — from Avatar
- 2008 "Jai Ho!" — Literally ‘Let there be Victory’ in Hindi from Slumdog Millionaire
- 2007 "Call it, Friendo" — from No Country for Old Men
- 2006 "High Five! It’s sexy time!" — from Borat!
- 2005 "Brokeback" — from Brokeback Mountain
- 2004 "Pinot" — from Sideways
- 2003 "Wardrobe malfunction" — Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson from Super Bowl XXXVII
Charles Baudelaire: Le revenant
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We found 22 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word "revenant"
"draugr"
"revenant". A "revenant", an undead creature in Norse mythology. They are typically animated corpses capable of inflicting injury on people and property. They can be killed by decapitation.
The "draugar" often inhabit burial mounds, guarding treasure, for example "Þráinn". Another "draugr" is Glámr in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar; he is killed by Grittir but curses his slayer and this is seen as the cause of Grittir's later misfortunes. In Eyrbyggja saga, Þórólfr Half-Foot is also reincarnated as a "draugr". He leaves his burial mound and causes devastation in the area of Þórsnes (Stykkishólmur) before he is finally laid to rest.
"ghost"
A disembodied spirit. The term is usually applied to the human soul after death. It is used interchangeably with such words as "apparition", "phantom", "specter", "shade", and "revenant".
Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997): "Revenants"
Ghosts who reappear after some time rather than immediately after death and in more material form. They are often presented as decomposing (though clothed). They are not Zombies, as they retain an identity and purpose – possibly Vengeance. Like ghosts, revenants appear close to the place of death, though not necessarily in Haunted Dwellings.
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"revenant": one that returns after death or a long absence
revenant
Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition....
- noun One that returns after a lengthy absence.
- noun One who returns after death.
Etymologies: From French "revenant", the present participle of "revenir" ("to return"). Compare "revenue".
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ETYMOLOGY:
From French "revenant" ("ghost"), from "revenir" ("to return"), from Latin "re-" ("again") + "venire" ("to come"). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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Revenant definition
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Shivering Boy, The
by Micha F. Lindemans
At Triermain Castle, in Northumberland, it is not so much a sight as a touch that is to be feared .... the touch of tiny, icy fingers, and a little boy's voice whispering, "Cold, cold, forever more."
The boy, legend has it, lived in the fifteenth century, and had inherited the castle when his father died. The uncle who was made the boy's ward wanted the castle for himself, so he starved the boy until he was barely alive, then abandoned him on Thirwell Common in the midst of a winter storm. The boy perished in the snow. But he returned to the castle in death, and walks the halls, teeth chattering, a spectral six-year-old shivering with the cold. If he enters the room of someone asleep, he may simply stand whimpering by the bed ... or he may reach out and lay an ice-cold hand on the sleepers brow. To feel his touch, or see his sad little figure, is a portent of trouble to come.
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- Quenya - the Ancient Tongue (see also Course)
- Adûnaic - the Vernacular of Númenor
- Westron - the Common Speech
- Telerin - the Language of the Sea-Elves
- Doriathrin - the Mothertongue of Lúthien
- Various Mannish Tongues - the Sadness of Mortal Men?
- Nandorin - the Green-elven Tongue
- Ilkorin - a "Lost Tongue"?
- Avarin - All Six Words
- Khuzdul - the Secret Tongue of the Dwarves
- Entish - Say Nothing That Isn't Worth Saying
- Orkish and the Black Speech - Base Language for Base Purposes
- Valarin - Like the Glitter of Swords
- Primitive Elvish - Where It All Began
Also spelt: "Qenya", "Qendya", "Quendya"
Also called: "High-elven" / "High-elvish", the "High Speech of the Noldor", the "Ancient Speech", the "speech of the Elves of Valinor", "Elf-latin" / "Elven-latin", "Valinorean", "Avallonian", "Eressëan", "parmalambë" ("Book-tongue"), "tarquesta" ("high-speech"), "Nimriyê" (in Adûnaic), "Goldórin" or "Goldolambë" (in Telerin), "Cweneglin" or "Cwedhrin" (in Gnomish).
- INTERNAL HISTORY
- DESIGNATIONS OF THE LANGUAGE
- EXTERNAL HISTORY
- THE STRUCTURE OF QUENYA: A BRIEF SURVEY
- Elementary Phonology
- The Noun
- The Article
- The Verb
- The Adjective
- The Participles
- Pronouns
- Quenya Wordlists
- APPENDIX: EXAMPLES OF QUENYA NOUNS FULLY INFLECTED
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The Quenya past tense always shows the final vowel "-ë" (though secondary endings may of course be added; for instance, we see "-er" where the verb has a plural subject). This vowel "-ë" is very often part of the ending "-në", which seems to be the most general past tense marker in Quenya. A-stem verbs typically add this ending. For instance, a verb "orta-" = "to rise" / "raise" is listed in the Etymologies (entry ORO, LR:379), and the song Namárië in LotR demonstrates that its past tense is "ortanë".
Other attested examples:
- "ulya-" = "to pour", past tense "ulyanë" (LR:396 s.v. ULU)
- "hehta-" = "to forsake", past tense "hehtanë" (WJ:365)
- "ora-" = "to urge", past tense "oranë" (VT41:18)
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"Urban Legend" is also the name of a 1998 movie.
Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by email. People frequently say such tales happened to a "friend of a friend" - so often, in fact, that "FOAF" has become a commonly used acronym to describe this sort of story.
Some urban legends have survived a very long time, evolving only slightly over the years, as in the case of the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo. Others are new and reflect modern circumstances, like the story of the man on a business trip being seduced by a woman and waking up the next morning minus a kidney surgically removed for transplant. Some urban legends have a basis in true events, such as the case of the young man shooting bullets into a large saguaro cactus and being killed when his gunfire severed the trunk, resulting in the falling plant crushing him. Even when essentially true, however, the stories often become distorted by many retellings.
Despite their name, "urban legends" do not necessarily take place in an urban setting. The name is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore created in pre-industrial times.
Urban legends often are born of fears and insecurities, or specifically designed to prey on such concerns.
Contents
- 1 Origins
- 2 Structure
- 3 Propagation and belief
- 3.1 Propagation
- 3.2 Belief
- 4 Keeping track of urban legends
- 5 Historical examples
- 6 Modern examples
- 7 The Papal Tiara
- 8 See also
- 9 External links
List of Contents
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- Astronomy
- Language Sciences
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ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, alteration of "wicke", ultimately from Old English "wicca", "sorcerer". See "witch".
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ENTRY: "*weg-"
DEFINITION: To be strong, be lively. Oldest form "*weg-", becoming "*weg-" in centum languages.
Derivatives include "watch", "vigilante", "reveille", and "velocity".
1. Suffixed o-grade form "*wog-e-". "wake", from Old English "wacan", "to wake up", "arise", and "wacian", "to be awake", from Germanic "*waken".
2. Suffixed o-grade form "*wog-no-". "waken", from Old English "wæcnan", "wæcnian", "to awake", from Germanic "*waknan".
3. "watch", from Old English "wæccan", "to be awake", from Germanic "*wakjan".
4. Suffixed form "*weg-yo-". "Wicca", "wicked", "witch"; "bewitch", from Old English "wicca", "sorcerer", "wizard" (feminine "wicce", "witch"), from Germanic "*wikkjaz", "necromancer" (- "one who wakes the dead").
5. "bivouac", from Old High German "wahta", "watch", "vigil", from Germanic "*wahtwo".
6a. "wait", from Old North French "waitier", "to watch";
6b. "waft", from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German "wachten", "to watch", "guard".
Both a and b from Germanic "*waht-".
7. Suffixed (causative) o-grade form "*wog-eyo-". "vegetable", from Latin "vegere", "to be lively".
8. Suffixed (stative) form "*weg-e-". "vigor"; "ravigote", from Latin "vigere", "to be lively".
9. Suffixed form "*weg-(e)li-". "vedette", "vigil", "vigilant", "vigilante"; "reveille", "surveillant", from Latin "vigil", "watchful", "awake".
10. Suffixed form "*weg-slo-". "velocity", from Latin "velox", "fast", "lively".
(Pokorny e- 1117.)
How Jezebel came to be known as the wicked queen Jezebel.
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"wicked", adj. "angry", "cross" - s.v. "wicked", from dial. "wick", adj. use of OE "wicca" "wizard", the fem. of which is "wicce" "witch". 'He's getting wicked', Dáithí Ó hÓgáin/Limerick.
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Margaret Hamilton played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
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Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal
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The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English
The Wicked Rat
- Ye sad story concerning one innocent little Lamb and four wicked Wolves
- "Hold Your Tongue, You Wicked Cricket!" Shouted Pinocchio
- The Wicked Old Pixie
wickedness
"wicked" (adj.) c. 1200, extended form of earlier "wick" - "bad", "wicked", "false" (12c.), which apparently is an adjectival use of Old English "wicca" - "wizard" (see "wicca"). Formed as if a past participle, but there is no corresponding verb. For evolution, compare "wretched" from "wretch". Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adverb from early 15c. Related: "Wickedly".
No rest for the wicked (adapted from Isaiah 57:20)
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American Regional Dialects - New England's Wicked Good Accent
Created Mar 14, 2008 | Updated Jun 7, 2013
Introduction to American Dialects | Southern Drawl | Tawking the Tawk in Noo Yawk | New England's Wicked Good Accent | Philly Talk and Pittsburghese | The Midwestern 'Non-Accent' | Da Chicago Dialect and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift
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Of particular note when discussing New England vocabulary is the all purpose intensifier "wicked" ("like a witch"), popularly used by younger New Englanders in place of the word "very". "That was wicked awesome" can be heard on the streets of Boston. If something in particular was "extremely good", then it was a "wicked pissa".
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Source of "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
Example Questions that can be answered by this FAQ:
I’m trying to find the name and author of a poem that has the line "The landscape turns to ashen crumbs, when something wicked this way comes."
The above verse is actually from a series of commercials for Lexus cars; we were asked about it many times when the ad first started being broadcast. The actual source of the line "something wicked this way comes" is act IV, scene 1 of the play Macbeth:
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
This can be found in -Bartlett’s Quotations-, located online at:
Wick, Wicked | Wicked Bible. | Wicked Prayer Book (The) | Wicked Weed (The)
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"Wick" is the Anglo-Saxon "weoce", a "rush" or "reed", but "wicked" is the Anglo-Saxon "wæc" or "wac", "vile".
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1434 By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.
and in print at your local public or college library; it’s one of the standard reference sources for quotations.
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Escape from Oz
5 August 2011
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- wicked; was Re: crazy/insane gradation Barbara Need
- wicked; was Re: crazy/insane gradation Victor Steinbok
- wicked WAS crazy/insane gradation James Harbeck
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- "Wicked City" Bapopik
- "Wicked City" in American Periodical Series (1867) Bapopik
In the 1870s, Chicago was also known as the "Wicked City". This was never very popular as a specific nickname that you'd see in, say, the Sporting News, but Chicago's "wickedness" was and still remains very popular. Jokes about Chicago and religion (or the lack thereof) filled the news paragraphs of the period.
Here are a few "wicked" examples.
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I'd posted a "wicked windy city" in the archives. Other cities, such as New York and St. Louis, were also called "wicked" - but usually Chicago.
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wicked little critta Lynne Murphy
Rensselaer; Fat Pizza & Wicked Chocolate Bapopik
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"Wicked Chocolate" is a brand of chocolate milk here. I've also seen "wicked" beers and lemonade.
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- wicked, hella- Bonikowski, Heather
- wicked, hella- Lynne Murphy
- wicked, hella- Nancy Elliott
- wicked, hella- RonButters
Does anyone have data that show the regional distribution of "wicked" and "hella" meaning "very" ("wicked smart", "hellacool", etc.)? My guess would be that "wicked" is East or NE and "hella" is West, but that's just a guess. Does anyone hear/use both?
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Is "pissa" still used in the east? In the mid-80s you would say "it's wicked pissa cool" if the thing you were talking about were "extra cool", and "pissa" could just be used as an approval, as in "You got the new Culture Club record? Pissa!" But while "wicked" seemed to spread outside New England, "pissa" never seemed to.
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I heard "wicked mother" ("hot", etc.) a lot at Indiana University.
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Eleanor Audley, Actor, Wicked stepmother in "Cinderella"
Aleister Crowley, Author, Wickedest man in the world
Margaret Hamilton, Actor, Wicked Witch of the West
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World - Free - Takes you into the life of Aleister Crowley, an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, and mountaineer, responsible for founding the religion of Thelema.
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Shakespeare concordance: all instances of "wicked"
"wicked" occurs 68 times in 63 speeches within 25 works.
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- All's Well That Ends Well (2)
- As You Like It (3)
- Cymbeline (1)
- Hamlet (6)
- Henry IV, Part I (2)
- Henry IV, Part II (2)
- Henry VI, Part I (2)
- Henry VI, Part II (3)
- King John (3)
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- Measure for Measure (7)
- Merry Wives of Windsor (3)
- Midsummer Night's Dream (2)
- Othello (1)
- Pericles (3)
- Rape of Lucrece (2)
- Richard II (1)
- Richard III (2)
- Romeo and Juliet (1)
- Tempest (3)
- Timon of Athens (3)
- Titus Andronicus (3)
- Troilus and Cressida (2)
- Winter's Tale (2)
Inverted meanings: "sick", "bad", and "wicked"
A common trick of slang is to invert meanings, so that seemingly negative words are used as terms of approval. "Bad" and "wicked" are two established examples, although it may surprise you to see just how far back their positive uses go.
The OED records ‘bad’ and ‘wicked’ used in a positive sense as long ago as 1897 and 1920 respectively:
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"No rest for the wicked"
Meaning: Literal meaning - "the wicked shall be tormented".
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Now here’s a surprise: Some of our unusual adjectives weren’t created this way. One of them is "wicked". You might wonder if the word has anything to do with the noun "wick", the thing that you burn in a candle or an oil lamp. Actually, no. You can put the "-ed" suffix on "wick", and talk about a "/wikt/ candle" or "/wikt/ lamp", but in those cases, the word has just one syllable, as you’d expect.
According to the OED, the source for "wicked" is the Old English noun "wicca", meaning "wizard". The feminine form of this word is the source of our word "witch". This noun "wicca" had an adjective form, "wick", which picked up an "-ed" suffix for no apparent reason. So etymologically, a "wicked witch" is nothing more than a "witch-like witch". Objections over how this meaning of "wicked" evolved to mean "evil" are well-founded, but that’s a bigger topic than we can get into here.
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Top Definition: "Wicked"
New England slang that adds emphasis. Synonymous with "really", "very" and "hella".
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God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop
Southey, Robert (1774 - 1843)
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Wicked has two quite contradictory meanings. If something is pure evil, then it is wicked. Think Darth Vader. On the other hand, as an informal slang term, wicked also means excellent — as in "that DJ is wicked, man!" Go figure.
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Wicked Bible
Posted by Grant Barrett on August 25, 2012 · Add Comment
The so-called Wicked Bible is a 1631 version of the King James, printed by Robert Barker and Matin Lucas. This particular Bible is so-called because the printers somehow managed to leave out the word not in the commandment against adultery. They were, indeed, punished. Behold the offending page. This is part of a complete episode.
The Wicked Witch of the West
Angela Allen: Wicked Writer and Blogger
Wicked - Die Hexen von Oz oder Wicked - Die Hexen von Oz. Die wahre Geschichte der bösen Hexe des Westens (Originaltitel: Wicked. The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) ist ein Roman von Gregory Maguire.
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Dear Word Detective: Why is it that New Englanders misuse the term "wicked"?
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Words change their meanings, or add new meanings, constantly. In fact, it's not unusual for words to nearly reverse their meanings over the centuries. Back in the 13th century, for instance, the English word "nice", rooted in the Latin "nescius" ("not knowing", "ignorant"), meant "foolish" or "stupid".
In the case of "wicked", what we have here is a new slang sense of "wicked", analogous to the current slang use of "bad" to mean "good", that does not in any way preclude the use of the word's original meaning of "evil" or "cruel". The Wicked Witch of the West is still both "wicked" and "bad" in the original senses of the words.
Speaking of "witches", "wicked", dating to the 13th century, is actually an adjective form of the Old English word "wicca", meaning "male witch" or "wizard", which also gave us the word "witch". The word "wicca" is best known today as the name of a neo-pagan religion which has gained considerable popularity since the mid-20th century.
The slang use of "wicked" to mean "excellent" (or as a positive intensifier, as in "wicked fast") is indeed native to New England, especially the Boston area, but it has spread widely into other areas of the US since it first became popular in the 1980s. Surprisingly, use of "wicked" in this ironic sense dates back at least to the 1920s, with the first occurrence in print found so far being in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise".
"have-one-s-wicked-way", (intransitive, idiomatic) To have sexual intercourse.
"no-rest-for-the-wicked"
Primarily used today for mild comic effect, meaning "one must work" (particularly because one has been lax), as in Annie usage.
Origin
From the Book of Isaiah verses 48:22 and 57:20-21, originally Hebrew. First attested in English in 1535, in Coverdale Bible of Miles Coverdale. Quoted in biblical sense for centuries, humorous secular sense popularized from 1930s, particularly due to use as title of popular Little Orphan Annie strip by Harold Gray in 1933.
"overwicked"
Adjective (comparative more overwicked, superlative most overwicked)
Too wicked; wicked to an unreasonable extent.
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