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Category: Aeolus

Bird-Women of Greece and Russia

September 18, 2021 boneandsickle Aeolus, Alkonost, antiquity, bestiaries, Bird-Women, classical music, folk tales, folklore, Gamayun, Greece, Greek myth, harpies, legends, mermaids, monsters, opera, pagan, paganism, Russian, seduction, sirens, Sirin

Bird-women hybrids of Greek legend and Russian folklore are uniquely ambivalent, sometimes bringing death and destruction and at others, prophetic wisdom[…]

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Bottled Spirits: Imps, Devils, Ghosts

August 1, 2020 boneandsickle Aeolus, antiquity, bottled spirits, EPISODE, exorcism, folk customs, folk tales, folklore, gothic literature, Greek myth, Grimm, Hebrew mythology, history, Homer, Ireland, literature, magic, manuscripts, Middle Ages, mythology, Oddysey, Romanticism, Satan, Scotland, witch bottles, witchcraft, witches

Western tales of bottled spirits, imps, devils, and even ghosts are largely borrowed from the Islamic and Jewish legends of jinn[…]

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