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The personified Death featured in medieval morality plays & later, traditional folk songs:
"Fair lady, throw those costly robes aside,
No longer may you glory in your pride.
Take leave of all sour carnal vain delight
I'm come to summon you away this night."
#FaustianFriday

I've been working on a new body of work inspired by some of the history and hysteria associated with menopause – for what seems like forever. I have shared very little up till now, so thought #WorldMenopauseDay would be a good day to start…

Known for his beauty, Narcissus rejected all romantic advances & eventually fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water into which he stared for the rest of his life. In some variants of his tale, Narcissus turned into the flower that bears his name. #FairyTaleTuesday

The blind daughter of the god of death, Lovatar (Louhi) was impregnated by the wind & gave birth to nine deadly diseases. Gap-toothed & hard-nosed, her magical powers enable her to shapeshift, change the weather, & control the movements of the sun & moon. #FolkloreThursday

Alive from the waist up & dead from the waist down, the half-blue-half-flesh toned Hel ruled the realm of the dead in Norse mythology. She not only judged the deceased, but led an army of them in a ship made from the fingernails of corpses. #FolkloreThursday

Clothes were hugely important to the medieval elite, who liked to display their wealth & superiority over the poor. The longer the shoes, the greater the wealth & social rank of the wearer. Some shoes were so long they had to be reinforced with whalebone. #WyrdWednesday

Sailors often feel the need to tattoo religious images or lucky symbols on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms & drowning far from home. An anchor was thought to prevent a sailor from floating away from the ship, should he fall overboard. #MythologyMonday

Punished for his hubris, Nebuchadnezzar II was driven away from people & ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle & his nails like the claws of a bird. #FolkloreThursday

There were many examples of automata in Greek mythology, something the island of Rhodes was particularly renowned for: "The animated figures stand / Adorning every public street / And seem to breathe in stone, or / move their marble feet." #FolkloreThursday