Los Prodigios y concepción del poder en el mundo visigodo. A propósito de las lanzas coloreadas de Eurico by José Antonio Molina Gómez, José Ángel Castillo Lozano

“…Abstract: As a result of a passage appearing in the Chronicle of Hydatius of Chaves that, at a later date, is also found in the Histories of Isidore, which contains a symbolic scene where the spears of the Visigothic warriors change colour in the presence of King Euric, we set out to analyse this complex world of beliefs, rites, ceremonies, omens ,and wonders connected to the understanding of power in the Gothic world. …”
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Caracterización electrofisiológica y análisis con la escala eFACE de la parálisis facial en el espectro óculo aurículo vertebral by María Soledad Rubio Mainardi, Damián Palafox Vidal, Alexander Cárdenas Mejía

“…Según la clasificación de OMENS las ramas superiores del nervio facial estaban comprometidas en 6 pacientes, las inferiores en 3 y todas en 23. …”
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„We were celebrating the october and the May day”: names of the holidays in the Soviet period in the arkhangelsk dialects by Zhanna A. Panina

“…Further, the study considers the beginnings of omens and regulations, mainly related to the agrarian labour cycle (start and end of field work) and changes in nature (ice drift and river-freezing, or rekostav). …”
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Clothing Hygiene of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the 13th–16th Centuries by L. F. Abzalov

“…Spiritual and ideological factors (prohibitions, superstitions, and omens) also played a certain role, but this needs to be explored in more detail. …”
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Venezia, forse. I mondi paralleli del paesaggio lagunare secondo Zanzotto e altri by Novella Primo

“…Taking a look at the chosen works from a comparative point of view that focuses on Visual Studies and Ecocriticism, what emerges is an icostic portrait of the ideolized city-landscape as a place for infinite fictional possibilities in which the precarious meets the eternal, the truth collides with lies, and in which the funeral omens are hinted at, more than by the literary tradition consacrated by Mann in his Der Tod in Venedig (1912), by the environmental disasters caused among other things by the hypertrophic industrial area of Marghera, on which various intellectuals from Bassani to Pasolini, from Montale to Guccini focused.…”
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Children of Kubaba: Serious Games, Ritual Toys, and Divination at Iron Age Carchemish by Alessandra Gilibert

“…It is argued that the reliefs represent a ceremony of investiture, in which boys of royal lineage are handed out toys as oracular instruments to elicit favourable omens for the heir apparent. The inclusion of boys and their toys in the visual commemoration of a political ritual has bearings on three levels of meaning. …”
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Traditional Animal Husbandry of Transbaikalia Old Believers (Semeiskiye): Dynamics and Symbolism by S. A. Kozlova

“…The author points out that Semeiskiye non-material culture contains many elements of pagan themes of the pre-Petrine era, expressed in rites, beliefs and omens. In the article one can trace it in relation to animals and the products obtained from them. …”
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Features of the Folk Ideas Reflection about Fate in the Signs and Superstitions of Social groups in Vladivostok by М. S. Kiseleva

“…The changes that occur in omens and superstitions under the influence of the peculiarities of life and the organization of life of native speakers in a situation of cultural borderland are commented on.…”
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Metafory pojęciowe związane z domeną „czary” w studiach nad afroamerykańskim folklorem oralnym wybrzeża Georgii lat trzydziestych XX wieku by Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek

“…African Americans interviewed in the project speak widely about talismans, spirits, lucky and unlucky omens and actions, as well as other aspects of their culture and folklore, including a significant amount of flight-related narratives. …”
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“What the Rain Tells Us about”: An Experience of Cultural-Cognitive Interpretation of Basic Meteonyms (Review of the Siberian Meteorological Dictionary, 2011: An experience of cult...

“…The dictionary presents a detailed analysis of speech contexts (dialect texts) that implement the collected meteonyms in the real everyday speech of dialect users, which makes it possible to interpret a separate atmospheric phenomenon (“rain”) chosen by the authors of the dictionary as a particular concept of the dialect worldview of rural residents of Siberia in its entirety and originality, including cultural and evaluative connotations, omens, beliefs, superstitions, etc. Thus, the cultural-cognitive description of the basic meteonym “rain” presented in the Dictionary vividly illustrates new approaches in the field of modern dialect lexicography. …”
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COMMUNICATIVE-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO THE LEARNING OF PHENOMENON “SILENCE” IN PROVERBS AND SAYINGS (ON THE BASIS OF RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, AND GERMAN FOLK PROVERBS by Lipatova Y.Y., Shigapova F.F.

“…Building on empirical base of this research, we identified 10 Russian and 10 German syntactic structures which are explicitly expressing prohibitive semantic in proverbs, sayings and folk omens. The author of the article defines a concept of a prohibitive construction in a broad sense. …”
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Virumaa kalendritavad ja nende piirkondlik omapära by Mall Hiiemäe

“…The influence of ancient Scandinavian agriculture that has persisted in northern Estonia for centuries, shows signs of weakening in the eastern part of Virumaa; in general, emphasis is laid on nature observations, as well as weather and crop-related omens in connection to calendrical holidays. The most important ritual foods are pork and mutton, barley and rye, as well as dairy products. …”
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Slovenci v Afriki in na Arabskem polotoku by Zvone Žigon

“…Države, v katerih trenutno živi relativno večje število Slovencev, so: Egipt, Južnoafriška republika, Kenija, Jordanija in Izrael, omeniti pa velja še Gano in Kuvajt. Posamezne izseljence lahko najdemo tudi v drugih državah kot npr. …”
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The semiotics study of Al-Ahdhar Mosque architecture using the trichotomy of Charles Sanders Peirce by Taufiq Widodo, Primi Artiningrum

“…This indicated that signs on building elements have a meaning, and the relationship of meaning, sign, and symbol is from a correlation between signs and omens, which is called the semiosis process.…”
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Knjižna ocena - Marjan Drnovšek, Drago Bajt, Slovenska kronika XX. stoletja, I. knjiga 1900-1941, Nova revija, Ljubljana, 1995, 457 str. (Prispevki o izseljenstvu) (Andrej Vovko by Andrej Vovko

“…V pomoč mu je bilo seveda njegovo že večkrat izpričano obširno poznavanje slovenske izseljenske problematike. Omeniti velja še, da so vsi njegovi objavljeni teksti - podobno kot prispevki drugih sodelavcev Slovenske kronike, opremljeni ustreznimi ilustracijami, pogosto tudi s preglednimi tabelami, kar vse daje njegovim tekstom dodatno vsestransko uporabnost in težo. …”
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Uvodnik by Meta Lah

“…Vsem njim gre velika zahvala. Posebej pa je treba omeniti mag. Nika Hudeljo, ki je v zadnjih letih vztrajno, natančno in potrpežljivo urejal revijo. …”
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Specificity of Comedy in Contemporary Kazakh Prose (E. Tursunov’s Short Story Cycle) by A. T. Baktybayeva, A. A. Bizhanova

“…Secondly, non-direct speech ironically exposes the hero’s surrounding world (“How Kazakhs believed in omens”). Thirdly, there is an orientation towards Chekhov’s humorous tradition (“How Kazakhs received guests”, “How brides became wives”). …”
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பரணி ஆராய்ச்சியில் பேராசிரியரின் மொழி ஆளுமை / Linguistic Mastery of Professor in Bharani Research by முனைவர் நா. சுலோசனா / Dr. N. Sulochana

“…A reader can visualize the pattern of Kali Temple, characters exhibiting expressions in the body, Omens, literary metaphors, the beauty of the autumn season, characterizations, overstatements, and personifications by the imaginative resources in “Kalingathup Bharani” through the books “Kalingathup Bharani Research” and “Bharani Pozhivugal” written by Subbu Reddiar. …”
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Integration of knowledge and local wisdom for disaster resilience in Anak Krakatau volcano by Azhar Firdaus, Fatma Lestari, Suraya A. Afiff, Herdis Herdiansyah

“…Prior to the occurrence of a natural calamity, knowledge is dependent on the structure of a home in order to create a resilient structure, while local lore relies on the omens of nature. Contribution: The integration of knowledge and local wisdom can fulfil the resilience process in terms of preparedness and after effect of natural hazards. …”
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Astronomy and mystic simbols in the Romanesque parish church of Santa Maria in Cortemilia (Cuneo, Italy) by Veneziano, G.

“…It took place more than five centuries after from the previous one: this surely increased the emotional impact of the event of the population, since at that time it was believed there was a close relationship between the total solar eclipses and the omens of divine doom. These feelings are evident also in the written descriptions of that eclipse that came down to us. …”
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