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Fiction Guide: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Importance of dividing the Starting Point from the Magical World

Fiction Guide: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Importance of dividing the Starting Point from the Magical World

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The Crossing of the Threshold

“ONCE having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth adventure. It has produced a world literature of miraculous tests and ordeals. The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, an…

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