Witches and Hags: Crash Course World Mythology #39
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the stories we tell about witches and hags. It's definitely unfortunate that a lot of social orders have generated stories about evil women with magical...
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Hey there I'm Mike Rugnetta. This is crash course mythology and today, we're gonna shift just slightly from our discussion of monsters to talk about... Monstrous humans! Monstrous human women to be exact. We're discussing witches and hags. Many, scary, magical ladies. You know what's scariest about them? It's their giant gross moles. Just kidding. It's their habit of turning people into stone. Thoth! Noooo! (Cheery theme song) Before we start, a quick reminder that many cultures which created these myths are patriarchal and many of the stories we're going to look at are more than a little misogynistic... devoting an episode to terrifying women doesn't mean we're endorsing the idea that women.. especially older wiser ...
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Hey there I'm Mike Rugnetta. This is crash course mythology and today, we're gonna shift just slightly from our discussion of monsters to talk about... Monstrous humans! Monstrous human women to be exact. We're discussing witches and hags. Many, scary, magical ladies. You know what's scariest about them? It's their giant gross moles. Just kidding. It's their habit of turning people into stone. Thoth! Noooo! (Cheery theme song) Before we start, a quick reminder that many cultures which created these myths are patriarchal and many of the stories we're going to look at are more than a little misogynistic... devoting an episode to terrifying women doesn't mean we're endorsing the idea that women.. especially older wiser ...
