regional languages of these countries. The folklore of the Low Countries encompasses the folk traditions of the Benelux countries: Netherlands, Belgium and...

folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi. Folklore is a concept encompassing expressive traditions of...

Caucasian folklore contains many links with the myths of the ancient Greeks. There are resemblances between the mother goddess Satanaya and the Greek goddess...

the English Hob, the Scottish Brownie and the German Klabauter or kobold. In the folklore of the Low Countries, kabouters are tiny people, about 10–15 cm...

of the resident peoples of the Low Countries' included: Germanic tribes north of the Rhine River (with a lot of exceptions like the Eburones or the Celtic...

cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. The first conflict saw the establishment of the Christian Union (formed of cantons...

release, Folklore topped the charts in various countries and is certified platinum or higher in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and the United...

actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing...

class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s). Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William...

Swedish Finnish Icelandic Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age Folklore of the Low Countries 16th century Renaissance humanism 16th century in poetry 16th...

to the Roman Catholic Church and to papal authority. The Reformation was the start of Protestantism and the Western Church that was inclusive of more...

tragedy around the following suppositions: The stage—in both comedy and tragedy—should feature noble characters (this would eliminate many low-characters...

This is an alphabetical list of Protestant Reformers. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Johannes Aepinus Johann Agricola Eisleben...

water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are...

focuses more on the moral drama of the Renaissance man than any other thing. Drawing on German folklore, Marlowe introduced the story of Faust to England...

Germany, the Low Countries, Poland-Lithuania, Hungary and England with the adoption of large-scale printing after 1500, and it became associated with the Reformation...

presidency of the pastor. Over the centuries, Waldensian churches have been established in countries as far away from France as Uruguay and the United States...

Luxembourgish: Kleeschen) in the folklore of the Low Countries. Traditionally, Zwarte Piet serves as an assistant to the saint and distributes sweets...

principalities. After the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries and the French Wars of Religion, the confessional division of the states of the Holy Roman Empire...

notable in the rule of John of Leiden over the city of Münster in 1535, which was ultimately crushed by the combined forces of the Catholic Bishop of Münster...

the Protestant Reformations at the time. It began with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and largely ended with the conclusion of the European wars of...

History is one of the three main genres in Western theatre alongside tragedy and comedy, although it originated, in its modern form, thousands of years later...

folklore, an almas, alma or almasty, is a cryptid folk creature said to inhabit the Caucasus, Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia and the Altai...

before the French Revolution of 1789. The revolt failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000...

the domestic Catholic and the émigré Protestant branches. Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the...

Pastoral. The first way emphasizes the historical literary perspective of the pastoral in which authors recognize and discuss life in the country and in...

the companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Sinterklaas) in the folklore of the Low Countries. The character first appeared in his current form in an 1850...

as little as £6 or £7 per play. This was probably at the low end of the range, though even the best writers could not demand too much more. A playwright...

reference to Oddi, a place where Snorri Sturluson (the writer of the Prose Edda) was brought up. The Elder Edda or Poetic Edda (originally attributed to...

American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It...