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In kijo are female demons. They appear as hideously ugly woman often with sharp horns, long claws, red eyes, wild hair & dressed in rags. These are women who were transformed into monsters due to jealousy, crimes or hatred.

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The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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One tale is that the Selkie or Seal Folk can only assume human form once every seven years because they are either humans who had committed a sinful act, or are fallen angels
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Sin-eating is an ancient ritual that involves symbolically consuming the sins of a recently deceased person. It's still practiced in some places, including Upper Bavaria. A cake is placed on the chest of the deceased & then eaten by a relative.

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This week's theme is the folklore of (Image: Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Lewis Walpole Library, via wikimedia commons)

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was brought to you today by and . Thanks for a great day, and we'll see you all next week! (Image: Lady Lilith, by Rosetti)

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My completed zine for college! The hags of Britain and Ireland, rendered in a bit of a somewhat art nouveau style.

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Two books

'Fleet' by , an epic poem of enchantment & familiar drama of longing, banishment, abuse, survival & love & 'Hares in The Moonlight', a tale in the spirit of Alan Garner & Susan Cooper by

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My drawing "The Green Fairy" linked to the green liquor Absinthe which green colour was enhanced originally with copper sulfate and antimony trichloride which caused toxicity and poisoning, and thus cause hallucinations (and green fairies of course)

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The Ceasg is a Scottish mermaid half-woman, half-salmon. In some tales, she swallowed men whole, trapping them in her stomach. To rescue them, her soul - often contained in an enchanted egg - had to be destroyed. If caught, she could also grant three wishes.

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Mother Goddesses such as Isis, Cybele & Kali were said to command weather by braiding or releasing their hair. In European lore, witches' hair controlled the weather and some folk said when placed in water such hair became serpents...

🎨Rossetti

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I’m off, This is Crystal waving goodbye from the innerwebs. will join on at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. One of my favs: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me,” –Ayn Rand (Image: Richard Wilson)

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Valkyrie (Old Norse Valkyrja : Chooser of the Slain).
In mythology, a group of maidens who served Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla



Thor: Ragnarok 2017
dir. Taika Waititi

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Metis was Zeus' first great wife, the one from whom all his early brilliance stemmed. She gave Zeus the potion that caused Cronus to vomit up his children; she advised him throughout the Titanomachy. When her womb became a threat, he ate her: he gained Athena.

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Maeve, (Medb) queen of Connacht in Irish had several husbands, led cattle raids, was ambitious, cunning, & an archetypal warrior 👑 She's linked to the Morrigan, & believed to be a manifestation of a sovereignty

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1884 The herring fishermen of England and Scotland believe that if a woman touches a net without first having repeated the Lord’s Prayer, they will catch no fish in it.

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Beatrice is a crucial female figure in Dante's Divine Comedy & a fundamental written female character in Middle Ages Italian literature, representing guidance, faith & revelation in Paradiso.

Beatrice appears to Virgil at the start of Inferno, by Gustave Doré

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It’s the best time of the week, Crystal back to share some more of your great lore. A hat tip to for hosting before our break. This week’s theme is the folklore of women in honor of TWEET! (Image: Cecile Walton)

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Daniel Gardner's 3 Witches 1775. Setting taken from Shakespeare were portraits of the most politically influential & socially notorious women of the time: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire & sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.

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In Chinese lore, Wen Shi is Longmu Finding an egg by the river, she hatched 5 snakes that matured into She became legend when her dragon-children ended the drought. When she died, the dragons took human form, aka the 5 Scholars.

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