Folklore vol. 48

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2011/02 ISSN 1406-0949

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On the Present-day Veneration of Sacred Trees in the Holy Land	7
Amots Dafni
Chaotic Identities, Love and Fathering	31
Stephen Williams
Connecting Threads	55
Mirjam Mencej
The Discursive Suppression of Women: Female Evils as the Villains of the Motherhood Narrative	85
Leyla Önal
Folk Narratives and Legends as Sources of Widespread Idioms: Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units	117
Elisabeth Piirainen
Images of Birds in Mordvinian Mythology	143
Tatiana Deviatkina
Rites Associated with Conjuring Rain in the Udmurt Calendar Cycle	153
Tatiana Vladykina, Galina Glukhova
The Tallinn Department of the Estonian National Museum: History and Developments	163
Piret Õunapuu
News in brief
Dissertation on Hidden Treasures in Estonian Tale Tradition - Katre Kikas [197] Thesis Defence: Piret Voolaid. Estonian Riddles as a Folklore Genre in a Changing Cultural Context - Sirkka Saarinen [201] Fragments from the Convention of Ethnographers and Folklorists SIEF Congress in Lisbon, April 17–21, 2011 - Tiiu Jaago, Pihla Siim [203] Taking Malta Out of the Box - Mare Kõiva [201]	News
Book review
Words as Events or Events as Words? - Kanni Labi [211]	Books
List of contributors
Our authors	215