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A hulder (or huldra) is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore.Her name derives from a root meaning "covered" or "secret". [1] In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra ("the [archetypal] hulder", though folklore presupposes that there is an entire Hulder race and not just a single individual).
A note on the Evolving Meaning of Álfar,” Folklore 126 (2015), 215–23. Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson (1993). "The testimony of waking consciousness and dreams in migratory legends concerning human encounters with the hidden people". Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 49: 123– 131. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011
In some parts of Sweden the elves also share features with the Skogsfrun, "Huldra", or "Hylda", and can seduce and bewitch careless men and suck the life out of them or make them go down in the mire and drown. But at the same time the Skogsrå exists as its own being, with other distinct features clearly separating it from the elves.
Biology is the overall natural science that studies life, with the other life sciences as its sub-disciplines. Some life sciences focus on a specific type of organism. For example, zoology is the study of animals, while botany is the study of plants. Other life sciences focus on aspects common to all or many life forms, such as anatomy and ...
Emphasized the importance of medium, and coined terms like "global village" and "the medium is the message" [210] Political science: Aristotle Niccolò Machiavelli* Thomas Hobbes** Aristotle is called the father of political science largely because of his work entitled Politics. This treatise is divided into eight books, and deals with subjects ...
The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll (variously meaning "fiend, demon, werewolf, jötunn") and Middle High German troll, trolle "fiend" (according to philologist Vladimir Orel, the word is likely borrowed from Old Norse), possibly developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun *trullan, meaning "to tread, step on".
Human science is the science of qualities rather than of quantities and closes the subject-object split in science. In particular, it addresses the ways in which self-reflection, art, music, poetry, drama, language and imagery reveal the human condition.
Artificial life is the simulation of any aspect of life, as through computers, robotics, or biochemistry. [162] Synthetic biology is a new area of biotechnology that combines science and biological engineering .