Mary
Mother of Jesus in Judeo-Christian religions
Category Archives: Myths and Folktales
Women have been depicted as goddesses, creatures, biblical figures, legends and folk tale heroines throughout history – many based in a grain of truth.
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Deborah
Female judge from the Judeo-Christian Bible
The Three Sisters
Italian folk tale
The Mórrigan
Warrior-queen goddess in Irish-Celtic mythology
Šauška
Hurrian-Hittite goddess of fertility, war, and healing
Tara
Tara is a female deity in both Hinduism and Buddhism who personifies compassion and offers salvation from the suffering of rebirth and death.
Bhramari
Indian goddess
Manananggal
A vampire, almost always female, she is depicted as a terrifying being with large wings who walks on earth until she spies her prey and then detaches her torso from her legs to fly quickly and attack.
Zhinü
Chinese goddess of weaving for the gods
Fitcher’s Bird
Germany folk tale