Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an EnigmaRoutledge, 15 օգս, 2005 թ. - 232 էջ Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... John Billingsley, Anne Coogan, Chris Corlett, John Harding and Siobhan Kavanagh for bringing new discoveries to my attention; to Rachel Milotte for the drawings; and to Gay Cannon, Sandy Firth, Keith Jones and Heather King for supplying ...
... John Billingsley, Anne Coogan, Chris Corlett, John Harding and Siobhan Kavanagh for bringing new discoveries to my attention; to Rachel Milotte for the drawings; and to Gay Cannon, Sandy Firth, Keith Jones and Heather King for supplying ...
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... John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, George Du Noyer and, briefly, James Clarence Mangan. Those carrying out field work would supply descriptions of historical monuments, gather local information on these and send back reports and queries to ...
... John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, George Du Noyer and, briefly, James Clarence Mangan. Those carrying out field work would supply descriptions of historical monuments, gather local information on these and send back reports and queries to ...
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... John Milton's preliminary observations to Samson Agonistes, where he says that in physic2 things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. Aristotle and Solon are also ...
... John Milton's preliminary observations to Samson Agonistes, where he says that in physic2 things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. Aristotle and Solon are also ...
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... John Prim, in his study of popular sports and amusements in Kilkenny, referred to wake orgies, he spared the feelings of the modest reader by passing over graphic details that were either too 'obscene' or 'strongly indicative of a pagan ...
... John Prim, in his study of popular sports and amusements in Kilkenny, referred to wake orgies, he spared the feelings of the modest reader by passing over graphic details that were either too 'obscene' or 'strongly indicative of a pagan ...
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... John Windele noted the discovery of a stone female figure at Barnahealy, or Castle Warren, Co. Cork (92), described by him as one of these old fetishes often found in Ireland on the fronts of churches as well as castles. According to ...
... John Windele noted the discovery of a stone female figure at Barnahealy, or Castle Warren, Co. Cork (92), described by him as one of these old fetishes often found in Ireland on the fronts of churches as well as castles. According to ...
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