The Twitching Hour

Media and research on mystic female figures. Special interest in ladies with contrasting cultural connotations. More info here. Please submit your art and writing here!

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Russian Witch Baba Yaga's Guide To Feminism

Promote healthy consent by asking visitors to your chicken-legged hut only if they came of their own free will.

[chaosophia218]

Richard Baxter - Pamphlet on the Existence of Witches and Ghosts, 1681. Baxter believed in witchcraft as a phenomenon susceptible to rational inquiry and that there was evidence for the objective existence of invisible powers and satanic influences mediated by witches. His text was to be later used as a work of reference in the Salem witch trials.

[twitchinghour]

The Juniper Tree

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[girlsoftheworld]

sorrow

[boysandghoulspodcast]

How to Become a Sensuous Witch: Spells, Rituals, and Recipes for a Livelier Love Life (1971).

[leradr]

A 12th century depiction of a cloaked but otherwise nude woman riding a large cat appears on a wall in the Schleswig Cathedral in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. Beside her is similarly a cloaked yet otherwise nude woman riding a distaff. Due to iconographic similarities to the literary record, these figures have been theorized as depictions of Freyja and Frigg respectively.

[taurielsilvian-blog]

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

Gail Simone, Wonder Woman: The Circle

(via justiceleaguers)

[saladinahmed]

As I discussed in an earlier post, pre-Comics Code comic books are full of fascinating women superheroes who’ve been more or less forgotten in the decades since WWII. Born in the era of Rosie the Riveter, when there was a national campaign to get women into workplaces, these costumed heroines...

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[fuckyeahglennclose]

Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil, 101 Dalmatians (1996).

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[twitchinghour]

'The Powerpuff Girls' to Return with New Series in 2016

"The Powerpuff Girls" will return to Cartoon Network in 2016, the cabler announced Monday. The reboot will include a new television series and a full licensing program that will roll out across all...

[pc-diva]

Retiring from the role of goddess

[twitchinghour]

In Nepal, Samita Bajracharya was worshipped as the incarnation of Kali until she reached puberty. Now, she is transitioning to life as a normal teenager.

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[allaboutmary]

The Mother of Sorrows in Almeria, Spain.