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| + | | style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_%28short_story%29 Berenice, Egaeus] | ||
| + | | style="text-align: center" |"'''Berenice'''", <br>by Edgar Allan Poe, 1835 | ||
| + | |As Berenice succumbs to an unnamed illness, her cousin and fiance, Egaeus, a man prone to moody trances, grows obsessed with the only part to be spared by disease: her teeth. After Berenice is buried, Egaeus, in a trance, digs her casket up. Unaware of the fact she had been mistakenly buried alive, he forcefully extracts her teeth from her, and only realizes his horrid act later when he finds himself covered in blood and mud, with a lantern and a box of teeth on his desk. | ||
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| style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini%27s_Daughter Beatrice] | | style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini%27s_Daughter Beatrice] | ||
| − | | style="text-align: center" |'''"Rappaccini's Daughter"'', <br>by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844 | + | | style="text-align: center" |'''"Rappaccini's Daughter"''', <br>by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844 |
|Isolated to a garden of poisonous plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?" | |Isolated to a garden of poisonous plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?" | ||
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| style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake Odette] | | style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake Odette] | ||
Revision as of 08:01, 31 December 2011
This is the page for all those neat ideas for personas we find in research but cannot use. For now this page is organized by theme, but this may change or be expanded upon.
Death
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Black Dog | British Isles | A large black dog, said to foretell a person's death. There are various names for the dogs, depending on the precise location. |
| Macaria | Greek | Either the daughter of Hercules who sacrificed her life for her city, or the counterpart of Thanatos who brought good death. |
| Maximón | Mayan/Catholic | A modernization and mix of the Mayan god Mam and Catholic beliefs who serves as a link between this world and the underworld. Unlike San La Muerte and Santa Muerte, he is not seen as benevolent. |
| Melinoe | Greek | Daughter of Persephone who wandered the earth with a retinue of ghosts every night. |
| Meng Po | Chinese Folk Religion | Serves the Tea of Forgetfulness to souls before reincarnation, so that they may not remember their previous lives. |
| Mors | Roman | The personification of death, similar to Thanatos. |
| San La Muerte | South American/Catholic | A modernization and mix of Catholic and South American beliefs who is worshiped as a god of death. A benevolent figure, he also answers prayers for good luck and protection against witchcraft. |
| Santa Muerte | Mesoamerican/Catholic | A modernization of the death goddess Mictecacihuatl mixed with aspects of Catholic beliefs. She is worshiped as a goddess of death. She receives prayers for healing and protection, specifically against violence. |
Love (Happy, Tragic, and otherwise)
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Berenice, Egaeus | "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe, 1835 |
As Berenice succumbs to an unnamed illness, her cousin and fiance, Egaeus, a man prone to moody trances, grows obsessed with the only part to be spared by disease: her teeth. After Berenice is buried, Egaeus, in a trance, digs her casket up. Unaware of the fact she had been mistakenly buried alive, he forcefully extracts her teeth from her, and only realizes his horrid act later when he finds himself covered in blood and mud, with a lantern and a box of teeth on his desk. |
| Beatrice | "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1844 |
Isolated to a garden of poisonous plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?" |
| Odette | Swan Lake, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1875–76 |
A princess cursed to be a swan during the day, Odette falls in love with the prince Siegfried. When Siegfried is tricked into swearing his love to a doppelganger, depending on the ending, Odette is freed from her curse through the power of love, or sacrifices herself for it. |
Luck
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Arkan Sonney | Manx | A long-haired fairy pig. It's said that anyone who catches one is blessed with good fortune, though they run from humans. |
Ocean and Sea
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sedna | Inuit | The Inuit goddess of the sea, she also governs Adlivun, the underworld. Hunters prayed to her to ensure that their hunts of sea mammals went well. |
Drunkenness
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Centzon Totochtin | Aztec | The 'Four Hundred Rabbits' in Nahuatl, they govern drunkenness. One of their number, Macuiltochtli, is a member of the Ahuiateteo, the gods of excess. |
Prophecy
| Name | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Barton | Great Britain, (1506?–20 April 1534) | An English Catholic nun, whose visions of the Virgin Mary made her a popular political figure. Executed for treason when she challenged Henry VIII. |
Temptation
| Name | Origin | Description |
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| Glashtyn | Manx | A variant of the kelpie myth, the Glashtyn takes the form of a handsome young man. He attempts to tempt young women to come to the river with him where he will drown them. |
