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Chthonia Episode 8

The Hanging Virgins

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  • Brigid Burke
 |  25 Aug 2019
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Greek mythology has a curious number of stories about young girls who kill themselves or are taken away due to sexual transgressions before marriage. We look at these stories, and their possible importance.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged with: chthonia, death, furies, hanging, hecate, liminal, maidens, podcast, suicide, underworld, virgins

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Chthonia is a podcast exploring the world of the Dark Feminine in myth, religion, folklore, and magic.

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Brigid Burke is the host of the Chthonia podcast, and the proprietor of Chthonia.net. She writes articles, fiction, and poetry dealing with the darker aspects of human behavior and the esoteric world. Her fiction has been published previously in Writin …

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