Harpies, sirens and succubi - our oldest tales are full of female monstrosities that terrify mankind. What does the Mounstrous Feminine want us to be afraid of? How is it constructed around feminine ideals?

And which feminine evil still entails real life victims to this very day? Today's Deep Dive has all the answers in store for you!

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More information and links on the topic:

• United Nations. Witchcraft and human rights. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. ⁠
• Müller, Charlotte & Sanderson, Sertan. Witch hunt: A global problem in the 21st century.
• Creed, Barbara (1993). The Mounstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
• Santos, Cristina (2017). Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins. Lexington Books.
• Germaine Buckley, Chloe (2019). Witches, ’Bitches’ or Feminist Trailblazers? The Witch in Folk Horror Cinema. Revenant: Creative and Critical Studies of the Supernatural (4). 22-42
• Howell, Amanda & Baker, Lucy. (2022). Monstrous Possibilities. The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror. Palgrave Macmillan.

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