The Twelve Wild Swans

Author : Starhawk,Hillary Valentine
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780062125231

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The Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk,Hillary Valentine Pdf

Continuing the lessons and deepening the knowledge first set out in the bestseller The Spiral Dance, here is the first guide that works for both basic and advanced magical training. Authors Starhawk and Hilary Valentine transform a fairy tale about twelve wild swans into a set of instructions for an initiatory journey into the world of Witchcraft, providing a remarkable roadmap describing three distinct paths into magic, healing, and action. "The practice of magic rests on the power of the word," says Starhawk. For circles, covens, and groups, this volume is the power of the word at work -- a sourcebook that instructs and inspires on many levels, from the craft of magical training to innerspiritual development to outer work in the greater world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8954040721

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백조 왕자 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Starhawk,Hillary Valentine
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780062516695

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The Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk,Hillary Valentine Pdf

The long-awaited continuation of the bestselling classic The Spiral Dance

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439106495

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Wild Swans by Jung Chang Pdf

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374712600

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A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham Pdf

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062980809

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A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire Pdf

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

Author : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062102027

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Princess of the Wild Swans by Diane Zahler Pdf

Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans,” this enchanting fantasy by Diane Zahler, author of The Thirteenth Princess and A True Princess, is a tale of family, bravery . . . and a terrible spell. Princess Meriel’s brothers have been cursed. An evil enchantment cast by their conniving new stepmother has transformed the handsome princes into swans. They now swim forlornly on a beautiful heart-shaped lake that lies just beyond the castle walls. Meriel will do whatever it takes to rescue her beloved brothers. But she must act quickly. If Heart Lake freezes, her brothers will be forced to fly south or perish. With help from her newfound friends Riona and Liam—a beautiful half-witch and her clever brother—Meriel vows to finish a seemingly impossible task. If she completes it, her brothers may be saved. But if she fails . . . all will be lost.

Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1783528885

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Wild Swans by Jackie Morris Pdf

A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and knit into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan-boy. And so she knits in silence. And where there is silence, people will put words. The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in Jackie Morris's enchanting retelling, complete with delicate watercolor paintings throughout this new edition. A story about love and bravery, about how to listen, and about how, when we do not listen, we hear what we wish to hear. "Beautiful, lyrical, and lovely." Joanne Harris on The Wild Swans "Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart." Meg Rosoff. For The Unwinding: "A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken." Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "The tales feel like half-remembered dreams, peopled with fairytale characters and magnificent creatures." Rebecca Armstrong, i Paper Best Books of 2020

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 1590780566

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Six Swans by Anonim Pdf

A king's daughter undertakes a difficult task to rescue her six brothers from the enchantment imposed on them by their wicked stepmother.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782691402

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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans and banishes the princess from the palace. And so it is left to Elisa to endure countless hardships alone in order to save her beloved brothers from the spell. This edition also contains a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved story The Nightingale, a story about a Chinese emperor who prefers the song of a mechanical nightingale to that of the real bird. When he falls ill, it is the nightingale who saves him. The story has been adapted for stage, opera, muscial theatre and television many times.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Sovereign
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190943812X

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The Wild Swans and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

The Wild Swans is one of the eighteen stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The story tells of a faraway kingdom where lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa.

Author : Brothers Grimm,Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385379144

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Little Golden Book Fairy Tale Favorites by Brothers Grimm,Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

Princesses, princes, spells, and happily-ever-afters: this unique collection of classic Little Golden Book fairy tales has them all! The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Wild Swans, and The Blue Book of Fairy Tales (featuring Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, and Toads and Diamonds), come together with gorgeous art by Gordon Laite and Sheilah Beckett. Glossy paper and a gold-foiled spine make this mini-treasury a perfect gift for fairy tale fans of all ages.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1480019127

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The Eleven Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling." During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films. -wikipedia

Author : Sarah McGuire
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781541530881

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Flight of Swans by Sarah McGuire Pdf

Based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Six Swans, The Flight of Swans follows Ryn's journey to save her family and their kingdom. Princess Andaryn's six older brothers have always been her protectors—until her father takes a new Queen, a frightening, mysterious woman who enchants the men in the royal family. When Ryn's attempt to break the enchantment fails, she makes a bargain: the Queen will spare her brothers' lives if Ryn remains silent for six years. Ryn thinks she freed her brothers, but she never thought the Queen would turn her brothers into swans. And she never thought she'd have to undo the Queen's spell alone, without speaking.

Author : Starhawk,M. Macha NightMare
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062125217

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The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk,M. Macha NightMare Pdf

RITUALS AND RESOURCES FOR HONOURING DEATH IN THE CIRCLE OF LIFE Birth,growth,death,and rebirth are a cycle that forms the underlying order of the universe. This is the core of Pagan belief – and the heart of this unique resource guide to de