The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans After centuries of turning powerful women into monsters, villains, or vanishing acts, what happens when we find a woman who wasn’t rewritten at all? What if her legacy survived intact, not in spite of her power, but because of it? As we step outside the familiar framework of Western… Continue reading 014 Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen
The Blood Countess—Monster or Myth? Throughout this series, we’ve seen how women were rewritten—turned into seductresses, sorceresses, rebels, and villains. Their power was dangerous. Their defiance, unforgivable. But what happens when even that isn’t enough? What happens when the story doesn’t just punish a woman...It monstrifies her? Before we turn toward the women who managed… Continue reading 013 Erzsébet Báthory: Monster or Myth
From myth to legend, from history to folklore, the stories of these so-called "bad girls" share a common theme: powerful women are dangerous, and dangerous women must be controlled. Whether they were witches, seductresses, warriors, or rulers, their legacies were shaped not by their actions alone, but by the fears of the societies that remembered… Continue reading 012 Conclusion: Reclaiming The Narrative
A woman weeping by the river. A mother searching for her lost children. A ghost whose cries send shivers down the spines of those who hear them. La Llorona is one of the most chilling legends in Latin American folklore. It is a story told to keep children from wandering too far. Beneath the ghost… Continue reading 011 La Llorona: The Mother who Became a Haunting
Cleopatra was one of the most brilliant rulers in history. But you wouldn’t know it from the way history tells her story. When you hear the name Cleopatra, what comes to mind? The seductress who ensnared Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? The queen who bathed in milk and rolled herself in carpets? A woman whose… Continue reading 010 Cleopatra: The Queen Who Was More Than a Lover
Few names evoke the image of dangerous seduction quite like Salome. A girl who danced for a king and, in return, asked for the head of a prophet on a silver platter. She is the embodiment of the femme fatale, mysterious, manipulative and deadly. Or so we’ve been told. But what if Salome was never… Continue reading 009 Salome: The Dancer with a Deadly Demand
History remembers Delilah as a temptress, a traitor, and the woman who brought down a man of God. But what if she was just savvy? Delilah’s story appears in the Book of Judges, where she is introduced as the lover of Samson, the Israelite hero with superhuman strength. Unlike many women in the Bible, Delilah… Continue reading 008 Delilah: The Woman Who Cut Him Down
If there’s one name that has been dragged through the mud for centuries, it’s Jezebel. Even today, her name is shorthand for a manipulative, wicked woman. But is that really who she was? Or was she just a woman who played by her own system of rules, values and beliefs? Who Was Jezebel? Jezebel was… Continue reading 007 Jezebel: The Queen Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced
A queen of magic, a healer, a seductress, a villain. Morgan Le Fay has been called many things. But who was she, really? A powerful enchantress from Arthurian legend, Morgan’s role shifts depending on who is telling the story. In some versions, she is the wicked sorceress scheming against King Arthur, his treacherous half-sister wielding… Continue reading 006 Morgan Le Fay: The Power That Wouldn’t Kneel
Before Eve, there was Lilith, the woman who refused to submit. Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel Rossetti In Jewish mythology, Lilith was Adam’s first wife, created from the same earth, and therefore his equal. But when Adam demanded obedience, Lilith chose exile over subjugation. For that, she was demonized, painted as a seductress, child-stealing witch,… Continue reading 005 Lilith: The First Rebel Woman
