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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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Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke (1997) is a "jidaigeki" (period drama) set in the late Muromachi era of Japan which took sixteen years to design and three years to produce.
Princess Mononoke: How the film was conceived (1998)

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Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night and takes to the sky like a bird in flight. Who do you think will be her lover? https://t.co/gvFNAOBHpn

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Today's theme is the folklore of Meet the greatest pirate ever: Ching Shih (1775-1844). She commanded 1200 ships & 75000 & triumphed against the English, Portuguese & Chinese navies! So respected, she became Lin Zexu's advisor in the Opium Wars

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is called the 'Dark Mother of the Woods' & is sacred to the 3rd phase of the the Known as Morrígan or Caillech or Beira, ‘Goddess of Winter’—the waning of life, waning year, and waning moon. 🍂🌗🌘🌒🌒🦉#FolkloreThursday
https://t.co/x8MaWNDrf2

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Nuwa is one of the oldest Chinese deities. She was a creator and protector of animals and people. Ancient Chinese society was matriarchal, and childbirth was believed to be a miraculous occurrence, that did not involve males.

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In March sow garden herbs:

“In March & in April from morning to night,
In sowing & setting good housewives delight,
To have in a garden or other like plot,
To physic their house, or to furnish their pot.”
(Good husbandry 1753)
🎨 Waterhouse

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Pencil & watercolour sketch of a Mermaid. A symbol of freedom & independence.

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The Lady of the Lake is often represented as evil in medieval literature but in 'Le Morte d'Arthur' she has a very good reason to entrap Merlin under a rock. He has fallen in love with her and will not leave her alone.

🎨Rackham & Speed Lancelot

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Some “Queen Bees”: Melissa (ancient Greece), Colel Cab (Mayan), Mellona (ancient Rome), Beyla (Norse), Austeja (Lithuania)-- Goddesses associated with bees, honey, beekeeping, fertility & survival of the world
Lovely 🎨by Q. Cassetti: https://t.co/MhCo4sXrl5

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