AUTHOR: Costel CIOANCĂ HERMENEUTICS OF THE MAGICAL OBJECTS IN THE ROMANIAN FANTASTIC TALE Danubius, XXXIV, Galaţi, 2016, pp. 415-440. Abstract The present study brings to the fore the use and the symbolism of the magical objects in the Romanian fantastic tale. These are items without which the hero would fail in his proposed desire, whatever…

AUTHOR: Costel CIOANCĂ THE INTIMACY SYMBOLS IN THE ROMANIAN FAIRYTALE. (I) THEOXENIA Danubius, XXXV, Galaţi, 2017, p. 261-276. Abstract The concept of hospitality (by which we mean, broadly, the kindness and generosity shown to the people away from their home or place of origin), has generated a certain relationship between the host and guest, translated either in material…

AUTHOR: Costel CIOANCĂ PROLEGOMENA TO THE ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGICAL BESTIARY. THE DOG Danubius, XXXVII, Galaţi, 2019, pp. 261-298. Abstract The importance of the dog in the history and evolution of homo sapiens sapiens is obvious. The metamorphosis of this wild animal (via Wolf) into a domestic one, which became a defender of man and his goods…

AUTHOR: Costel CIOANCĂ CONTRIBUTIONS TO A HISTORY OF EVIL, IN ROMANIAN FANTASTIC FAIRYTALE. MYTHOLOGICAL AND FOLKLORIC EVIL BEINGS Danubius, XXXVIII, Galaţi, 2020, pp. 529-544. Abstract The man from the traditional Romanian communities imagined the Evil through the phenomenological prism of Christian morality. Good and Evil, in various forms and aspects, are in constant confrontation. Man,…