Juliette Wood Professional in Celtic Folklore Juliette Marie Wood folklore; celtic; myth; tarot; grail; mermaid; brothers Grimm Copyright 2004 - 2005 Juliette Marie Wood; Linking permitted to home page only; Mirroring not permitted text/html 7172 bytes en St Elmo's Fire St Elmo, Erasmus, corpuzanto, omen A strange light which hovers at the tips of masts after intense thundery sea storms is known to sailors as corpuzanto or St Elmo’s fire. The appearance of St Elmo’s fire was regarded as a good omen as it usually appears after the worst of a storm has passed. The name, St Elmo’s Fire, derives ultimately from St Erasmus and early bishop and martyr whose name was shortened to Ermo and then to Elmo. 2005-05-09 Text application/pdf 29416 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted Secret Traditions in the Modern Tarot: Folklore and the Occult Revival tarot, folklore, occult, secret tradition, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Cabala, Arthurian Interest in the tarot as a fortune telling device and the proliferation of tarot decks was a feature of the revival of the occult in the eighteenth century. The imagery in the tarot cards was associated with Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Cabala and the Arthurian legend. While there is no historical basis for these theories, ideas about origins and meaning encapsulate a fascinating mixture of speculation and esotericism which give the modern tarot both its vigour and its lack of coherence. 2004-04-24 Text application/pdf 35497 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted Obscure Objects of Desire: Is this the Real Holy Grail? Arthurian romance, folklore, Knights Templar, Holy Grail In the medieval Arthurian romances the Holy Grail is the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. Today it stands for any unattainable ideal. However, there are in existence several objects which claim to be the actual cup used at the Last Supper, in short the real Holy Grail. These grail objects are steeped in legend and local tradition, in the imaginative history of the Knights Templars and other secret societies. 2004-04-24 Text application/pdf 34000 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted Mermaids: A Hybrid Creature in folklore Mermaid, folklore, Mermaids half human and half fish, are common in European and Near Eastern folktales. As such, mermaids live in an ‘in between’ sort of world. Their lives and actions under the sea, an environment alien to humans, parallel the human world, and mermaids often interact with their human counterparts. What is the truth in the mermaid story? Well the idea of beings who are similar to humans but live in an environment where human beings cannot is wide-spread and doesn’t need more explanation than our own desire to populate the universe with creatures similar to us. 2004-04-24 Text application/pdf 20000 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted The Brothers Grimm and Their Folk Tales Grimm, folklore, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, witch At the beginning of the nineteenth century, two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, published a book of folktales based on material gathered from storytellers in central Germany. The volume, known in English as Grimm’s Fairytales, contains some of the best-known fairy tales full of well-loved characters such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and favourite villains such as Rumpelstiltskin and the Wolf. Here is a world in which wicked stepmothers prowl the palaces and witches lurk in the woods, but the hero or heroine always wins out in the end. 2004-04-24 Text application/pdf 21000 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted Juliette Wood Professional in Celtic Folklorexxx Juliette M Woodxxx folklore; celtic; myth; tarot; grail; mermaid; brothers Grimm brief resume of Dr Juliette Wood, an academic in the field of folklore specialising in Celtic folklore 2004-04-25 Text text/html 7172 bytes en only linking to homepage permitted without prior explicit permission CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr Juliette Marie Wood curriculum vitae of Dr Juliette Marie Wood, an academic specialist in the file of folklore. She is an Associate Lecturer, School of Welsh, University of Wales, Cardiff, Past President and currently Secretary of the Folklore Society, London. She is also secretary to Board of Directors Folklore Society, London and Tutor, Department of Continuing Education, Reading University 2004-04-24 Text application/pdf 29000 bytes en copyright Juliette Marie Wood, linking and mirroring not permitted