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60 relations: Abdera, Thrace, Ancient Greece, Austwick, Avadhuta, Berwickshire, Blonde joke, Boeotia, Bohemia, Brothers Grimm, Coggeshall, Constanzo Beschi, Creative work, Denmark, Divine madness, East Frisian jokes, Essex, Feigned madness, Folklore, Fool's literature, Foolishness for Christ, Galicia (Spain), Germany, Guru, Hero, Honza, Hymylä, Ivan the Fool, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jester, Jewish folklore, Jewish humour, Jews, Kampen, Overijssel, King Lear, Latin America, List of English words of Yiddish origin, Molbo story, Moravia, Mother Goose, Nazareth, Netherlands, Norfolk, Phrygia, Polish joke, Sardarji joke, Savant syndrome, Södertälje, Schlemiel, Suffolk, Tamils, ..., The Good Soldier Švejk, The Queen Bee, The Three Feathers, The Three Languages, Thracians, Trickster, Villain, William Wallace Denslow, Wise Men of Gotham, Yorkshire. Expand index (10 more) »
Abdera, Thrace
Abdera (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρα) is a municipality and a former major Greek polis on the coast of Thrace.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Austwick
Austwick is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, about north-west of Settle.
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Avadhuta
Avadhūta (IAST) is a Sanskrit term from the root 'to shake' (see V. S. Apte and Monier-Willams) that, among its many uses, in some Indian religions indicates a type of mystic or saint who is beyond egoic-consciousness, duality and common worldly concerns and acts without consideration for standard social etiquette.
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Berwickshire
Berwickshire is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders.
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Blonde joke
Blonde jokes are a class of jokes based on a stereotype of a dumb blonde woman.
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Boeotia
Boeotia, sometimes alternatively Latinised as Boiotia, or Beotia (Βοιωτία,,; modern transliteration Voiotía, also Viotía, formerly Cadmeis), is one of the regional units of Greece.
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Bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy;; Czechy; Bohême; Bohemia; Boemia) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.
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Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.
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Coggeshall
Coggeshall is a small town of 4,727 residents (in 2011) in Essex, England, between Colchester and Braintree on the Roman road of Stane Street, and intersected by the River Blackwater.
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Constanzo Beschi
Constantine Joseph Beschi (8 November 1680 – 4 February 1742), also known under his Tamil name of Vīramāmunivar, was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary in South India, and Tamil language littérateur.
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Creative work
A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, and musical composition.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Divine madness
Divine madness, also known as theia mania and crazy wisdom, refers to unconventional, outrageous, unexpected, or unpredictable behavior linked to religious or spiritual pursuits.
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East Frisian jokes
In German humour, East Frisian jokes (Ostfriesenwitz) belong to the group of jokes about certain nationalities, in this case the East Frisians of northern Germany.
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Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
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Feigned madness
"Feigned madness" is a phrase used in popular culture to describe the assumption of a mental disorder for the purposes of evasion, deceit or the diversion of suspicion.
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Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.
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Fool's literature
Fool's literature was a literary tradition in medieval Europe in which the stock character of a fool was used as an allegory to satirize the contemporary society.
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Foolishness for Christ
Foolishness for Christ (διά Χριστόν σαλό, оуродъ, юродъ) refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining a monastic order, or to deliberate flouting of society's conventions to serve a religious purpose–particularly of Christianity.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Guru
Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
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Hero
A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a real person or a main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength; the original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor.
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Honza
Honza is a very common Czech name which may be informally used interchangeably with Jan (John).
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Hymylä
In Finnish folklore, Hymylä (variants: Himola, Huikkola, Hyvölä, Hytölä, Hämälä, Hölmölä) is a mysterious place for the banishment of a child who failed in a children's game, usually, the game of riddles.
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Ivan the Fool
Ivan the Fool or Ivan the Ninny is a stock character of lucky fool who appears in Russian folklore, a very simple-minded, but, nevertheless, lucky young man.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, or fool, was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests.
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Jewish folklore
Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism.
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Jewish humour
Jewish humour is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash from the ancient Middle East, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal and often anecdotal humour of Ashkenazi Jewry which took root in the United States over the last hundred years, including in secular Jewish culture.
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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Kampen, Overijssel
Kampen is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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List of English words of Yiddish origin
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.
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Molbo story
A Molbo story is a Danish folktale about the people of Mols, who live in eastern Jutland near the town of Ebeltoft.
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Moravia
Moravia (Morava;; Morawy; Moravia) is a historical country in the Czech Republic (forming its eastern part) and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
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Mother Goose
The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes often published as Old Mother Goose's Rhymes, as illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1913.
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Nazareth
Nazareth (נָצְרַת, Natzrat; النَّاصِرَة, an-Nāṣira; ܢܨܪܬ, Naṣrath) is the capital and the largest city in the Northern District of Israel.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Norfolk
Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.
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Phrygia
In Antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía, modern pronunciation Frygía; Frigya) was first a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River, later a region, often part of great empires.
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Polish joke
A Polish joke is an ethnic joke used to mock the Polish people in the English language based on negative stereotypes.
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Sardarji joke
Sardarji jokes or Sardar jokes are a class of ethnic jokes based on stereotypes of Sikhs (who use the title of "Sardar", with -ji being an honorific).
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Savant syndrome
Savant syndrome is a condition in which someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average.
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Södertälje
Södertälje is a city and the seat of Södertälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden.
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Schlemiel
Schlemiel (Yiddish: שלעמיל; sometimes spelled shlemiel) is a Yiddish term meaning "unlucky bungler" or "chump." It is a common archetype in Jewish humor, and so-called "schlemiel jokes" depict the schlemiel falling into unfortunate situations.
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Suffolk
Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.
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Tamils
The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.
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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk (also spelled Schweik, Shveyk or Schwejk) is the abbreviated title of an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek.
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The Queen Bee
"The Queen Bee" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 62.
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The Three Feathers
"The Three Feathers" is a story by the Brothers Grimm.
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The Three Languages
"The Three Languages" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 33.
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Thracians
The Thracians (Θρᾷκες Thrāikes; Thraci) were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting a large area in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
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Trickster
In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.
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Villain
A villain (also known as, "baddie", "bad guy", "evil guy", "heavy" or "black hat") is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction.
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William Wallace Denslow
William Wallace Denslow (May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915), professionally W.W. Denslow, was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Wise Men of Gotham
Wise Men of Gotham is the early name given to the people of the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in allusion to an incident where they supposedly feigned idiocy to avoid a Royal visit.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool_(stock_character)
