🎭 Culture 6d ago · Stephanie Bastek

Women Are Evil

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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For millennia, the darkest doorways on the spookiest of nights have been haunted by one figure: woman. Whether in the form of a fanged and cloaked vampire, a clawed fury, or a baby-slaying witch, wicked women have frightened and titilated us in equal measure. Eleanor Johnson’s provocative new book, Monstrous Bitch, follows these demonic archetypes through more than 4,000 years of human history to identify their source: the demoness Lamashtu of ancient Mesopotamia. Wearing different guises, she a

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