for millenia, women expressed their pain through a belief in demonic, female monsters
- Written by: Marguerite Johnson, The University of Queensland
An incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon from Nippur, Mesopotamia.Wikimedia CommonsSarah Clegg’s Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi is about ancient demonic figures, expressly the infamous child-killing monsters of the Near East and Mediterranean. Intimately tied to childbirth and infant and...
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