Faizah Eliza Abdul Talib

The Wise Crone: The Two-Faced Archetypes in Global Folk Horror and Comparative Literature

The research objects of this study are three old-woman folk narrative motifs from different cultural backgrounds, namely Nenek Kebayan of Malaysian folk narrative, Shanlao (Yamamba/Yamauba) from Japanese folk narrative and Baba Yaga from Russian folk narrative. It claims that, despite their cultural differences across...