Black Spider

Black Spider
Author: Jeremias Gotthelf
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-06-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0761852093

Die Schwarze Spinne is a religious allegory about morals and religious living in the mid-nineteenth century, written by Jeremias Gotthelf. This work is an interlinear translation of Gotthelf's Die Schwarze Spinne with introductions to both the author and the work itself. In a small Swiss community, a baptism is the backdrop for a village elder to tell the story of his family and their life and death struggle with the devil himself. The elder relates the story of a knight and his ill treatment of the farmers of the area. The knight's inhuman demands upon the peasants bring about unforeseen consequences, which lead to the decimation of the village and, ultimately, the knight's own death. The plague released through a pact with the devil, the black spider, haunts the village for hundreds of years and must be fought with religious piety, courage, and devotion to traditional values. It is when one forgets God and his commandments that the black spider is at its most deadly. A true tale of morality written by a pastor in 1842, The Black Spider serves as a warning to those who, according to Gotthelf, go against the will of God.

The Black Spider

The Black Spider
Author: Jeremias Gotthelf
Publisher: Alma Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Spiders
ISBN: 9781847491084

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis
Author: David Gallagher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9042027096

The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society’s moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse’s Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.

Die Schwarze Spinne

Die Schwarze Spinne
Author: Jeremias Gotthelf
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-06-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0761852107

Die Schwarze Spinne is a religious allegory about morals and religious living in the mid-nineteenth century, written by Jeremias Gotthelf. This work is an interlinear translation of Gotthelf's Die Schwarze Spinne with introductions to both the author and the work itself. In a small Swiss community, a baptism is the backdrop for a village elder to tell the story of his family and their life and death struggle with the devil himself. The elder relates the story of a knight and his ill treatment of the farmers of the area. The knight's inhuman demands upon the peasants bring about unforeseen consequences, which lead to the decimation of the village and, ultimately, the knight's own death. The plague released through a pact with the devil, the black spider, haunts the village for hundreds of years and must be fought with religious piety, courage, and devotion to traditional values. It is when one forgets God and his commandments that the black spider is at its most deadly. A true tale of morality written by a pastor in 1842, The Black Spider serves as a warning to those who, according to Gotthelf, go against the will of God.

The Amber Witch

The Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm Meinhold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1893
Genre: Paranormal fiction
ISBN:

Helvetic Kitchen

Helvetic Kitchen
Author: Andie Pilot
Publisher: Bergli
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Cooking, Swiss
ISBN: 9783038691280

"Andie Pilot takes readers on a photographic tour of her favorite recipes--some just like her grandmother made and some modern takes on Swiss classics. With dishes for every time of day, both sweet and savory, the book includes recipes for every chef from Birchermüesli to fondue, Capuns to Rüeblitorte, Andie Pilot makes Swiss cooking easy--and illuminates many of Swiss cuisine's curiosities."--back cover.

Decolonial Futures

Decolonial Futures
Author: Christine J. Hong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149857937X

A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education is guided by the questions, "What makes education intercultural and interreligious?" "How might we rethink and redesign spaces of learning to be hospitable to cultural and religious differences as well as to dismantle the coloniality of theological education?" "How might we subvert traditionally colonial spaces to model the engaged intercultural and interreligious world that we seek?" The book helps educators and practitioners of intercultural and interreligious learning both deconstruct and reconstruct spaces of learning by centering interreligious and intercultural intelligence through the voices, experiences, and narratives of minoritized people.

The Black Cloth

The Black Cloth
Author: Bernard Binlin Dadié
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780870235573

Presents a collection of sixteen African folktales by poet, novelist, critic, and statesman, Bernard Binlin Dadie that represents the oral tradition of his native Ivory Coast.

Magic and Mysticism

Magic and Mysticism
Author: Arthur Versluis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780742558366

Provides overview, from antiquity onwards, on various Western religious esoteric movements. This book includes topics such as: alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and more.