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Speaker 1: I've never told your production of I hear Radio's House

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Speaker 1: is nothing like what I just said. You came up

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Speaker 1: And we were having a rousing conversation about whether or

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Speaker 1: not unicorns are monsters and are they all female? Right?

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Speaker 1: fun house now. Yes, I wish I could do Halloween

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Speaker 1: themed episodes. The excitement that I see with the words

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Speaker 1: there is a monster beauty gap. Female monsters are generally

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Speaker 1: real world human monsters. Um, we are going to tough

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Speaker 1: touch briefly on Um, some fictional serial killers, but not

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Speaker 1: of blood and menstruating means that she's done something evil,

424
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: which was the most of the Mother has translated that

425
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: to be. And so therefore, men, if you're menstruating, your evil. Yeah,

426
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: I guess. So that's what I've been told, And I

427
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: suppose along those lines, I'm a firestarter. Frying a child

428
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: that will set you a fire more as a child.

429
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: Pretty scary. Yeah. Then there's the main character from Teeth,

430
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: which is a movie I know I've mentioned before about

431
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: vagina dentata. Uh, And to be clear, vagina dentata is

432
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: not the monster. She uses it in a pretty like

433
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: monster type way. And yeah, I feel like again this

434
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: reflects our anxiety around female sexuality. You can't trust women.

435
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: They aren't what they seem. Um, And this movie kind

436
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: of falls into a whole genre of women wronged and

437
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: that generally means raped and then getting revenge. And this

438
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: is another genre where the monster label can get really murky,

439
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: really really, I mean revenge movies in general. Right, um uh,

440
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: still monster perhaps, but not really in the way we're

441
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: talking about today. Right. Then there's the creepy rogue AI

442
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: pretty often voiced by women, sometimes even a female avatar,

443
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: like in the classic Resident Evil. So I'm thinking like

444
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: she or no her, Well, not a monster but a

445
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: um x makina though that is a good example, like

446
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: a rogue. The new Hilary Sweint movie that's on Netflix.

447
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: She there's an AI that takes care of this human

448
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: child and then there's a battle between who are you

449
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: going to believe who's the actually evil villain? Oh? How interesting. Um,

450
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: there are a lot of female ghosts that are I

451
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: guess evil like, uh, lady in Black, that's the first

452
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: one that comes to my mind. But so there's that,

453
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: you know. Um. And then there is other mother from Coraline,

454
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: which by the way, I refused to see because it

455
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: looks creepy as hell is like I just saw the

456
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: button eyes. But and I was like, nope, it's good,

457
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: it's good. Um. They have a are they used to

458
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: at the Center for Puppetry Arts. They had a little

459
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 1: set piece from it was do haunt me? Um. And

460
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: speaking of children, there's also we see this in children's books.

461
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: A recent study from the Observer found that not only

462
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: our children's books twice as likely to contain male main

463
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: characters and there are far more likely to have speaking

464
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: roles compared to female characters, and villains were eight times

465
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: more likely to be male. And the researchers at that

466
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: paper are pretty good it explaining why that is such

467
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: a problem, especially at a formative age, something you're reading

468
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: to your children or that they're reading. Um, can we

469
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: talk about why so many of the children's books and

470
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: children's stories have their parents killed off. It's because the

471
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: story wouldn't happen if someone was there to be like, hey, kid,

472
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: don't go into the woods and talk to the screepy

473
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: old lady. I think it's problematic another episode. Um. There

474
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: are some famous fictional serial killers I did want to

475
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: mention because they have this sort of supernatural element to them. Um,

476
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 1: Jason's mom from the original Friday the Thirteenth, although Jason

477
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: is more the one that's like, if you've seen the

478
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: whole series, which I embarrassingly have, Um, he's like a demon, right,

479
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: there's a whole thing. Um. And then Mrs Loomis from

480
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Scream Too, because I love Scream Too and I just

481
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: watched it. How did that come up? Yesterday? You were talking,

482
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: oh game when you put a reference to that, and

483
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: no one except for Lauren from Favor and we were

484
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: all like, hey, l Cassandra, Oh my gosh, Lawrence always

485
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: got my back's um. And there are some famous, not

486
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: so recent ish examples, like the Bride of Frankenstein from

487
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: nineteen five, who doesn't show U until the very end

488
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: of the film. And I read very funny, like two

489
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: different interpretations of this film. Either the Bride screwed everything

490
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: up by rejecting the monster because if you don't know

491
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: at the end, she's like no, or the monster was

492
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: an entitled douche. You got mad, a lady, you're injecting him,

493
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: which consign sounds one and the same again because of

494
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: rejection towards the monster Man man monster. How interesting. Then

495
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: there's Jacula's daughter from nineteen six who tries to overcome

496
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: the curse of her father by finding an immortal mate. Okay,

497
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: I gotta find a man, or else you're doing to

498
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: monster hood. And then there's the Invisible Woman who has

499
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: an invisible baby with an invisible man. Of course, how

500
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: could you imagine if it would it be half invisible?

501
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: So would it be like if she went with a

502
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: not invisible man, oh, assuming it had a lot um.

503
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: Then there is the cat Woman from Cat People, which

504
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: is a film about a woman who can't have sex

505
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: or she'll turn into a panther. M I mean we

506
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: all know that, right every time I have sex a

507
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: cat of some sorts. Um. And that movie plays a

508
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: lot with gas lighting because even when there is like

509
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: scientific evidence that yes, she does her into a panther

510
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: she has sex, no one believes her. Of course, women

511
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: and sex. Then there is the Lost Woman from The

512
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Lost Woman. H This film depicts a woman who successfully

513
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: founded a cosmetic company, but is desperate to find a

514
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: way to maintain her youth. Her cosmetics are not doing

515
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: it for so she formulates an anti aging product with

516
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: royal jelly from bees, with herself as the test subject,

517
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: but of course side effects may include turning into a

518
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: lost woman. I feel like we definitely have a theme

519
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: here with the whole age and baby in blood and secks,

520
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: because I'm just thinking about the fact that who who

521
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: was the the woman who bathes herself in blood trying

522
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: to stay younger, But she was an actual woman, um,

523
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: and that was one of the reasons that kind of

524
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: that whole monster theme began because of her legend. But anyway,

525
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: I'll just I just find that fascinating. And then we

526
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: have the young pigtailed girl from the nineteen sixty five

527
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: The Bad Seed, which, by the way, I'm going to

528
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: these last three movies we just talked about. I have

529
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: no idea what these movies are. I've never heard of

530
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: these movies, and I'm both horrified and intrigued. Yeah, well

531
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: I've seen I haven't seen um like, I've seen them

532
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: maybe once when I was young. Uh, And I just

533
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: remember thinking, are kind of silly, but the bad seat

534
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: did scare me actually, um, but worth checking out if

535
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: you're at all interested in this female monster thing. Um,

536
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: we have some female monsters of history. But first we

537
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: have a quick break for word from our sponsor and

538
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: we're back. Thank you sponsored. So, of course, one of

539
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: the first female monsters that comes to my mind kicking

540
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: at old school is the gorgon slash Medusa from Greek mythology.

541
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Speaker 1: Is actually one of the first things that I was

542
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: ever proud of drawing. But then I had to admit

543
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: that I traced it when everyone was complimenting me and

544
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: asking me how I drew such a kid. I traced it.

545
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: I would have believed it. Um. To fill you in

546
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: on her backstory, the god Poseidon raped her in Athena's temple, uh,

547
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: and Athena, outraged that this could happen in her temple,

548
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: punished who Medusa. This is such a biblical Old Testament idea,

549
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: the thought being, with this punishment of she's so hideous,

550
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: men that dared to look upon her would turn to stone.

551
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: Then it would never happen again. Of course, that's like

552
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: the easiest way. Um. So that is an example of

553
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: women not supporting women and some of that. Yeah, yeah,

554
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty we can say that with confidence.

555
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: And some versions of this tale, Perseus states this is

556
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: a well earned punishment for Medusa. That's the most terrifying

557
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: thing of the story. I feel like, yeah, that translates

558
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: a little too well. I know, I'm very uncomfortable with

559
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: how well it translates. So another female monster from the

560
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: Greek mythology are the sirens, who lured mostly male sellers

561
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: to their destruction with their beautiful song. The most well

562
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: known depiction is in the Odyssey O Do See. His

563
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: warned of their power, had himself tied to his ship's mass,

564
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: while his crew put wax in their ears to block

565
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Speaker 1: out the siren's call. These creatures, by the way, were

566
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Speaker 1: hybrids with the bodies of birds and the heads of women,

567
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: which that's sexy, will sexy uh? And in some tales

568
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: they were persephonese companions, and when they failed to stop

569
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Speaker 1: her rape, they were turned into sirens, which seems to

570
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: be a common theme in Greek mythology punishing women for rape.

571
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: It seems to be it's already come up twice to exist,

572
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: So the sirens seemed to originate after the Greeks had

573
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Speaker 1: contact with Eastern art. Sirens were extremely confident in their talents.

574
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: They unsuccessfully challenged the Muses, and the Muses being the

575
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: nine Greek goddesses of various arts. Legend goes a siren

576
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: invested musically by mortal must die. Also in the Odyssey,

577
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: Scylla and Charactis sisters who were cursed to be ugly

578
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: as punishment for their misdeeds. No greater punishment, of course,

579
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 1: um Scilia was a six headed rock monster. Why whild

580
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: Cards was a sea monster just snacking on poor lost sailors.

581
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: You know I could do so sad. Then there are harpies,

582
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: Greek and Roman mythical monsters with the body of a bird,

583
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: usually a vulture, and the face of an old woman.

584
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: In early legends they were not depicted that way, but

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00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: in the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, which is

586
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: probably one of the most well known uh they were

587
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: portrayed as half bird, half women and quite revolting, like

588
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: they stank. They stole your food, And that was one

589
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: of the first times that it was written this kind

590
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: of signature move of theirs, that they steal your food. Um.

591
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: Their name is derived from a Greek word meaning snatchers.

592
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: They abducted people, usually evildoers, and cruelly punished them while

593
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: taking them to the furies they are thought to The

594
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: Harpies are thought to represent wind spirits, in my opinion,

595
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: most terrifyingly portrayed in The Last Unicorn. And in case

596
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,479
Speaker 1: you're wondering, there is in fact an entire essay written

597
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: about the feminism of the Last Unicorn, and I have

598
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: read it. Really, I love that movie. It's on my

599
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: list of terrifying children's You have to be it, must

600
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: have you must have rented it because you were too

601
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: young for that movie. We owned it. I don't know

602
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: that we're talking about the Tom Cruise movie Tom Crew.

603
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm that's legend. That's legend.

604
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: So confused because legend has it's based on a unicorn. Oh,

605
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: oh my god. And that's Tim Curry being a frightening,

606
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: frightening Well I want to see this. Oh it's poor quality.

607
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: That's The Last Unicorn. Okay, okay, okay, yeah, now I'm there.

608
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: Never mind, keep going two movies to watch. Um this

609
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: whole thing. The heartbee is where the insult heart bee

610
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: comes from, meaning a foul or unpleasant woman. Um. A

611
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: picture of a rare hearpie eagle went viral yesterday as

612
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: we record this due to its resemblance to a human um.

613
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: It really is cool. Look it up like this. This

614
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: eagle in in particular, which is named after the herpy

615
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: from Greek mythology, looks amazing and weird and you can't

616
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: believe it exists. So check it out. And that that

617
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: that brings us to the furies or the arenes or

618
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: the human ideas from Greco Roman mythology. And these are

619
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: the goddesses of vengeance, frequently depicted as hags with snakes

620
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: in their hair and snakes wrapped around their arms and

621
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: blood dripping from their eyes, dressed in black, carrying whips.

622
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: In their first incarnation, they were the ghost of murdered people,

623
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Speaker 1: or perhaps like curses come to life. The Greek poet

624
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: Hessiad conceived of them as the daughters of Gaya Argaia,

625
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: birth from the blood of her murdered spouse, urinous as

626
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: a pretty dark origin story. The first to describe them

627
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: in three, because normally now we think of them in threes,

628
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: was Euripides. Eventually they were named Alecto which means unceasing

629
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Speaker 1: and anger. It's a phony avenger of murder and Magara

630
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: jealous and I got that pronunciation from the animated Hercules,

631
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: so that is probably not correct, although that is an

632
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 1: interesting kind of side because there are three I believe

633
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Speaker 1: there's three characters that kind of represent the furies in

634
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: that movie. Um. They the furies were frequently depicted as

635
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: spirits of the underworld that came to the surface to

636
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: punish the wicked, particularly crimes around family and oaths. Their

637
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: punishment could be something like disease or madness. They were

638
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: so feared by the Greeks that they referred to the

639
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: furies and euphemistic terms like the furies or the gracious ones,

640
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: like be nice to them, call them nice things. Maybe

641
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: they leave you alone. In the Iliad, they cloud people's

642
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: judgment and reason. Homer wrote that they had no pity

643
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: in their hearts, and they are sometimes called the daughters

644
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: of night. They are the embodiment of righteous rage, and

645
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: as such, there are a lot of feminist articles written

646
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: about them as well. Pretty current. Um also, now the

647
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: name of an Australian slasher movie, is it? Yeah, that's

648
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: what it was first results When I was searching on Google.

649
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to try to check that out.

650
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: Of course, there's the Succubus or that which Lies beneath.

651
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: Check out the full episode in our archives for more.

652
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: But briefly, the succubus is a female sexual demon. That's

653
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: the nick names play notes. The legend of the puccubus

654
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: is thousands of years old and transcendd culture as Jins

655
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: and Arabic cultures. This demons m is approaching men while

656
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: they're sleeping and seducing them. Lords suggests sucubus are the

657
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: descendants of Lilith, which we're gonna get into in a second,

658
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: because I know you're super excited about that. The Succubus

659
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: has taken on a sore of cultural second win lately.

660
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: You can see that on our classic episode Can You

661
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: Have Sex with a Ghost? Which is okay um And

662
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: also apparently that's where we talk about y'all talk about

663
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: Kesha reported having sex with a ghost. Yeah, and that

664
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: plays into a lot of sleep paralysis. Uh, there's very

665
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: many actually scientific research into that very phenomenon. So yeah,

666
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: check out that classic for more on that one. Then

667
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: there's Banshees, another pretty famous female monster although I guess

668
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: she's just gonna trying to warn you. Generally, um, she's

669
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: from This is from Irish and Scottish lower sometimes the

670
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: ghost of an old maid or wailing about your impending

671
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: probably violent death. Sometimes the visage of a beautiful maiden

672
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: weeping about your impending death, and some retelling. She can

673
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: be found washing her blooded clothes in the river or

674
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: brushing her hair with a silver comb. And modernly people

675
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: think this this it originated from the sounds of barn owls.

676
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: And when I read that, I was like, oh, I

677
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: can see that, because I've heard one. I had just

678
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: watched the Mothman prophecies and there was a barn owl

679
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: or a screech owl outside my window and it scared me, so,

680
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: oh my god, I thought it was a moth man.

681
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: But the next day my neighbor, who's kind of she

682
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: knows a lot about nature, was like, now that was

683
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: just Now you're fine. Um. But they also have kind

684
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: of like white plumage that can look like a face, um,

685
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: And they're very silent when they fly. So I can

686
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: see how you might think it's a wheeling ghost of

687
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: a woman who's warning you about your death. Because you're

688
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: just anxious all the time. Well, I guess some warning

689
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: would be good. It's a nerving sound. Oh my gosh. Well,

690
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: then we have Grendel's mother from Beowulf, who is described

691
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: as a woman monster wife, embodying both light and dark

692
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: sides of the feminine seems to be a common theme.

693
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: When she's first mentioned in the poem, she's described as

694
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: an avenger. There is a lot of themes of like

695
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 1: getting justice, punishing people for doing wrong, um, and then there.

696
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: This is one of the most interesting inclusions on our list.

697
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: I think Bobba Yaga, here we go from Russian folklore.

698
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: I had to really try to keep reining in and

699
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: they will not make the whole upset about her. She

700
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: lives in a hut that has chicken legs. In some

701
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: versions it spins on top of eggs and is bodecked

702
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: in skulls, and she travels herself via mortar, mortar and festal.

703
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: When someone visits her, she may eat you or offer

704
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 1: to help you. That's the interesting thing about Bobby Yaga

705
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: that a lot of UH historians I think is unique

706
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: is because in the very same story she can be

707
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: like a trickster murderer, a helper, all in one woman,

708
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: we contain multitudes um. Bobby Yaga is frequently depicted as

709
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: an old woman crone or hag could be applied here,

710
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: gnarled and toad like, with long stringing, gray hair and

711
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: iron teeth or no teeth. Sometimes she has written as

712
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: traveling with death and feeding on deaths, newly released souls,

713
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: and yes. When looking at the wealth of information that

714
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: has been written about her, she is sometimes maternalistic and

715
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: others cannibalistic. Probably the most famous instance of Bobby Aga

716
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: in literature is from Vahalisa the Beautiful. This Russian fairy

717
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: tale follows Vashaliza, whose mother died when she was young.

718
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: Before her death, the mother gave her a doll like

719
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: no other doll in the world, instructing her daughter to

720
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: never let anyone see it and carry it with her always.

721
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: Those dolls, Those damn dolls, Those damn dolls, I actually do.

722
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: I actually pitched a whole episode on why do we

723
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: think dolls are creepy? And everyone was like, no, I

724
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: wanted to know, Um, okay, So yeah, if she's carrying

725
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: it with her always, and if she's ever threatened by

726
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: evil or sorrow. The other tells Vashaalisa to find an

727
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: isolated corner or someplace that people won't see her. Take

728
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 1: the doll out, feed it, give it a little something

729
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: to drink, and then tell it um what's bothering her,

730
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: And then the doll gets her some advice or I will.

731
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: And not soon after her mother's death, vashally said, does this.

732
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: She takes up the doll, feeds it a little, gives

733
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: it a drink, and then tells it about her grief

734
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: of her mother dying. And the doll listens and then says,

735
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: grief is worse at night, and morning is wiser in

736
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: the evening, and suggested that Vashalisa go to sleep, and

737
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: Vashalisa found that she did feel better the next day. Meanwhile,

738
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: her father had found a new wife, a widower about

739
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: his age with two daughters. The woman and her children

740
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: moved into their house, and vashaal Lisa quickly realized that

741
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: her father's new wife was quite cruel. She wanted her

742
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: father's wealth and her and her daughters were envious of

743
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: Vashaalisa's beauty. By giving her a lot of menial and

744
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: difficult chores, they hoped to diminish her beauty. But Vashaalisa

745
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: was resilient and she has that special doll. Years went

746
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: by this way until vash Lisa reached marrying age oh no,

747
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: and everyone wanted to marry her, of course um and

748
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: this made her stepmother and sisters even angrier. So when

749
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: Vashelisa's father left to make a journey to another sardom,

750
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: his wife packed up to all the stuff, sold his

751
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: house and moved everybody, herself or daughters, and Vashlisa to

752
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: a sad neighborhood bordering the wild woods outside of town.

753
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: And every day her stepmother sent bass Elisa into the

754
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 1: woods to compete various tasks. The stepmother did this knowing

755
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: that Boba Yaga lived in these woods, who people believed

756
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: eight people like one, eats chickens and delicious. Her hope

757
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: was that Vasha Lisa would encounter Boba Yaga and be eaten.

758
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: The doll knew of Bobby Yaga and warned vasha Lisa

759
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: not to approach the hut on chicken legs fair, But

760
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: the stepmother was determined and with the hell of her daughters,

761
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: orchestrated a situation where vasha Lisa had to go to

762
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: Abby Yaga to get more fire um. But Vasha Lisa

763
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: does all of this instead of getting eaten. Bobby Yaga

764
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: just is like, here's some impossible to ask, Let's see

765
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: if you can do them. And because she has that doll,

766
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: Vashi Lisa succeeds in these tasks and as a reward,

767
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: Bobby Yaga gives her one of her skull lanterns Awesome.

768
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: When Vashi Lisa returns home, the lantern sets the home

769
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: of her terrible new family flame, killing them, and then

770
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: she goes on to marry the Tsar. The end happily

771
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: ever after. In this story, it's a great example Bobba

772
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: Yaga feeling filling many roles um similar to what we

773
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: discussed in our episode around the Mother Destroyer. Sometimes, in

774
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,879
Speaker 1: other stories she is depicted as a goddess um Are

775
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: and others the manifestation of winter storms. Perhaps because of

776
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: this enigmatic nature, she has become quite the popular figure

777
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: on the internet, and yes it is sometimes it's jokingly

778
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: referred to as a feminist icon. I'm not mad that no. No.

779
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: She unseated the Mermaid and Jezebel's next top creature race,

780
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: beating out the Siren that's fantastic. And in two thousand thirteen,

781
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: the feminist website The Hairpin launched an advice column called

782
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: Asked Baba Yaga that eventually became a book called Asked

783
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: Babba Yahua Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles. The book's author,

784
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: Tasia Katskaya said of Babba Yaga that image of an

785
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: old woman living in the woods doing whatever she wants

786
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: all day long continues to be the dream for myself.

787
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: I'm with her, I want to be there. Um. And then,

788
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: when trying to get to the bottom of Bobba Yaga's popularity,

789
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: academics thought it might be due to her ability to

790
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: house a paradox the good, the evil, and the in between,

791
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: to live outside moral codes, and for women, specifically, her

792
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: rejection of society's rules. Boom, I could see it, because

793
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean clearly I got I was all you are

794
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: so like and you know what with all that? Yeah,

795
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: let me do that. Um. And if you want to

796
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: learn more about Bobby Yaga, you should check out the

797
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 1: stuff you missed in History Class episode, which is our

798
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: podcast done by some of our wonderful co workers here,

799
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: wonderful piece Tira and Bobby Yaga, and briefly, if you're wondering,

800
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 1: Pizza Diira is a supernatural crone from Brazilian folklore who

801
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: lies and wait on roofs at night, waiting for some

802
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: poor soul with a full stomach to fall asleep on

803
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: their backs stomach pacing up so that they can jump

804
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: and trample on them. Ah and yeah, there is an

805
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: entire scientific study examining Pizza Diira and her connection to sleeperalysis,

806
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: specifically her that's a great monster. Roll over, just roll over. Now.

807
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: All they do is jump on your stomach. It's like

808
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: a cartoon coming to life. That's amazing. Well, you know,

809
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's probably pretty violent. I mean, if you

810
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: really get down to it. But then at the same time,

811
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: you're like what my cousin used to tell me that

812
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: if I fell asleep on my back, I wouldn't survive

813
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: to see the morning Into this day, I can't sleep

814
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: on my back. Yeah, because she said there was something

815
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: like waiting under your bed and it would it could

816
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: only stab you through the back. So to this day

817
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: I cannot sleep on my back. A really specific tale,

818
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: it was, it was quite specific. Speaking of specific tales,

819
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: this brings us probably my favorite part, right, Lilith, Lilith

820
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,280
Speaker 1: um and some Jewish religious interpretations. Lilith, who was Adam's

821
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: first wife, went on to become the mother of all

822
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: the monsters, so the mother of everything we're talking about here,

823
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: after refusing to submit to the missionary position like sexual

824
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: mission alright, yes, cool, cool, Okay. So this whole idea

825
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: of like the missionary position and all of that, this

826
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: comes from a medieval Jewish text called the Alphabet of Binsurah,

827
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: which a lot of historians believe could be satirical. Um,

828
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 1: but okay. Lilith was created with the earth, as was Adam,

829
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: and had many strong opinions from love rry start. She

830
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: said to Adam, I will not lie below, to which

831
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: he responded, I will not lie beneath you, but only

832
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: on top, for you are fit only to be in

833
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.

834
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: Lilith snapped back, we are equal to each other inasmuch

835
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: as we were both created from the earth. And then

836
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 1: when Adam still wouldn't like listen to her, she flew away.

837
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: She she took God's name in vain, which was a

838
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: huge deal um, and flew away and then Adam was like,

839
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: oh God, like literally God, she flew away. What will

840
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: I do? And God sent three angels after her to

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Speaker 1: persuade Lilith to return, inform her that if she refused,

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Speaker 1: one of her children a k A. Demons would die

843
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Speaker 1: each night. And Lili for you, she said, nope, I'm

844
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Speaker 1: not coming back, and she promised to leave children, human

845
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Speaker 1: children who wore an amulet to ward her off alone.

846
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: So because she was like, I won't eat all of

847
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: your human children as long as they take some precautions,

848
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Speaker 1: they threatened to drown her in the I think the

849
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Speaker 1: Red Sea, when that's why she agreed. Um, and yes,

850
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: there was an ancient practice of giving children an ambulance

851
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: inscribed with the names of the three angels that was

852
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: meant to keep Olilith away. Lilith also is frequently condemned

853
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Speaker 1: for wondering about at night, vexing the sons of men

854
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: and causing them to defile themselves. Oh jeez. Lili's story

855
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: is complex and fascinating. The first known reference of her

856
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: goes back to Samaran list of demons from two thousand,

857
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: four hundred b c. Lee Lu demons were similar to

858
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: succuby m who seduced sleeping men in order to produce

859
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: demonic children. Iterations of her appeared in ancient Egyptian, Greek,

860
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: and Israeli legends. Got the name checked her and Fast

861
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: and Ulysses by James Joyce. She is labeled as the

862
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: patron of abortions. In C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

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Speaker 1: She is the ancestor of the White which I didn't

864
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: know that she's mentioned in the Chronicles of Naria. A

865
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: tablet from the seventh or eighth century BC found in

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00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: Syria mentioned Lilith owe you who fly in the darkened room,

867
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: be off with you, this instant Lilith, thief, breaker of bones,

868
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: so scary like that, I'm gonna put that us somewhere.

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Speaker 1: In some versions of the story she made it with

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00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: the archangel Simuel. In other versions a demon which I've

871
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: seen versions where she's sister of God and not necessary

872
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: and the darkness whatever, but not necessarily the wife of Adam. Yeah,

873
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean that's another thing, is there is interpretation around

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00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: that she never was Adam's wife. Um. A lot of

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00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: discussion around the list. But when we wanted to touch

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00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: on Judith Plasco wrote a parable and nteen seventy two

877
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: about her about Lilith called the Coming of Lilith, reframing

878
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: the story in a similar way that Wicked did with

879
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,439
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Oz as we could win to the West.

880
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: In the parable she fled for refusing to be treated

881
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: as lesser than Adam, who she regarded as her equal,

882
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: and was viciously slandered for it. And then she and

883
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: Eve looking for some women some support, they became fast friends,

884
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: and Lilis sort of became a feminist hero after that,

885
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: an image helped along by the nineteen seventy six launch

886
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: of Lilith Magazine, complete with the tagline independent, Jewish and

887
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: frankly feminist, and in the all female music festival, Lilis Fair.

888
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: Of course, little fair. I love that. And then, you know,

889
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: as you were talking about the retelling of the stories,

890
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: and like a lot of the pop culture, which has

891
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: been a new thing to bring Lilith back up supernatural,

892
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: they kind of revamped her story and that as well,

893
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 1: and she was also in True Blood not necessarily revamp

894
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: part of that storyline. Um, but some modern witches and

895
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: pagans invoke Lilith in their practices and right especially those

896
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: involving the darker side of the feminine. So yeah, like

897
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: goals around money or rights, yeah, which if any listeners

898
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: are involved, and these kinds of practices and right, So

899
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear from Oh my gosh, I could

900
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: talk about Lilith. There's so much to say about this. Actually,

901
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: one of my favorite books is UM called Lilith, and

902
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of reclaiming the name because then for a

903
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: while the name was just seen as like evil. I

904
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: do like this brings us to the end of our

905
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: history of monsters, even though there's so many that we

906
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: could include, and so many of these that could be

907
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: fleshed out into full episodes. But I do think it's

908
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: interesting ending on Lilith, like this mother of monster idea

909
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: that we've been touching on the whole time, UM, and

910
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: we can see these themes over and over again of

911
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:57,879
Speaker 1: like motherhood and revenge and justice and just kind of

912
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: punishing eight, which is the dark side of feminine. I mean,

913
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: Lilith is kind of the arc of being a femin

914
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: saying hell no, hell no. Okay, well, yeah, we have

915
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more for you, but first we're going

916
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: to pause for one more quick break forward from our

917
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: sponsor and we're back. Thank you, Thank you monsters, and

918
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: also thank you sponsors who are not monsters. Well it's

919
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: on my brain, Okay, it's yes. Um. We did want

920
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: to touch on some things that are changing because we

921
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,280
Speaker 1: have given what I feel like are some pretty great

922
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: examples of female monsters and what they can be. We've

923
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: given some not so great ones as well, but there

924
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: is still this monster gap that we touched on the beginning. Um,

925
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: and some badass women out there are trying to make

926
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 1: things more equal when it comes to our betrayal around monsters.

927
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: Theodora Goss got a pH d in English in part

928
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: by writing a four page dissertation on Victorian monsters, and

929
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: she wanted to remedy this whole thing, or at least

930
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: do her part to remedy it, by writing a short

931
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: called The Mad Scientist's Daughter, which follows Katherine Monroe, Justine Frankenstein,

932
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: and Diana Hyde. And she built upon that universe with

933
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: the novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter, which

934
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: I kind of love. I love the yeah, I love

935
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: the whole plotline. And when it comes to our entertainment,

936
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: for so long, women have only been allowed to exist

937
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: within the framework of the male gaze. And we talked

938
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 1: about before, if she's not sexualized, she's ridiculously de sexualized.

939
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: And if these for examples shows anything, we are still

940
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 1: grappling with our fear of women's sexuality. Obviously, so minor,

941
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,399
Speaker 1: minor thing to tackle, right, But that that's that play

942
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: in all of this. Um our discomfort with women who

943
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: don't behave how we expect them to, of women who

944
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: step outside the narrow box we've deemed appropriate for femininity,

945
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: that's another thing that's in play at play and all this,

946
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: And I do think it's interesting that, um, like we

947
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: said at the top, male monsters are frequently allowed sympathy

948
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: and female monsters are not. They're not as fleshed out,

949
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: they're not as a whole of characters. Um. And this

950
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: very thing and the fact that women commit murder at

951
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: much lower rates than men contribute to a culture that

952
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: sensationalized female murderers. UM. So there's a lot to talk about,

953
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: so many things when it comes to female monsters, and

954
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: not just nerdy stuff. I was getting to talk about

955
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,439
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things at least, right, I love

956
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: that knows I learned a lot see how passionate you

957
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: are and it's fantastic. Yeah, I got I have a

958
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: lot of passionate that very diplomatic way of saying it. Um,

959
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: we would love to hear from listeners. If there's any

960
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: of monsters that you want to uh want us to

961
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: return to, or that we didn't mention our movies, that

962
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,439
Speaker 1: we should watch, books we should read, you can send

963
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: those our way before we get into our our outro officially,

964
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: though we do have some shout outs. We do have

965
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: shout outs, so of course to backtrack with all of

966
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: our love for horror movies, and I picked a couple

967
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: out which you may have already heard that are women

968
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: in horror movie genres or talking about mysteries of swords.

969
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: So Women in Caskets, which is one podcast which I

970
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: know I think it's got a pretty big following anyway,

971
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: but I was like, oh, this is cool, which, by

972
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: the way, when I googled it without the word podcast,

973
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: I got some really bad pictures. Don't do that. Don't

974
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: do that. Um. And then switch Blade Sisters, which is

975
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: also another great little podcast, great to look into. Again,

976
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: they probably all have pretty big followings, but if y'all

977
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: are interested, and I have not are these jump on

978
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: it if y'all know more that I need to get

979
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: it into or especially and he needs to get into obviously.

980
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: Um remember I was trying to I needed we needed

981
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: to reach out to Tan yet because she was posting

982
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: about them recently too. Okay, Yes, you can send any

983
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Speaker 1: of those such questions any at all to our email.

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