the wife of bath from the canaberry tales?
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I'm not sure what your question is, but for information about the story of the Wife of Bath from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales check out the links below.\n\nShe is a very interesting character.
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Joseph Glidden. Legend states that Glidden's wife Lucinda encouraged him with his idea to enclose her garden.
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I've always liked Athena of Greek mythology or Diana of Roman (same god) She's just cool. She's a virgin and never wanted to marry. In one story she caught a hunter watching her bath in a  river. She turned him into a deer and watched as his own hunting dogs tore him apart and ate him. She just had some of the coolest stories
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You probably wanted a summary of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. There are actually many different stories within this collection. Here is a link that you might be able to use which gives info on all of the stories within the collection:\n\nhttp://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/14/24/frameset.html
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Morgan Le Fay, interesting to note that she was also classed as a Celtic death-goddess.\n\nOther names her hasbeen known as:\nMorgan the Fate\nFata Morgana\n\nSometimes she was known as the ninefold goddess, the 'Nine Sisters called Morgen' ruling the Fortunate Isles in the far west, where dead heros went. Sometimes she or they became mermaids. Morgans or "sea-women" could draw down to their palaces of gold and crystal at the bottom of the sea of ponds those ill-fated to venture to near the water.\n\nMorgan was related to the Crone aspect as Mother Deathand would cast a destroying curse on every man. Even Arthurian romances which presented her as a human being, Arthur's sister, inconsistently admitted: "Morgan the Goddess is her name, and there is never a man so high and proud but she can humble and tame him.\n\nSometime she kindly promised immortality to her favored lovers, like Ogier the Dane, who accompanied her to paridise. As the Morrigan, she stage-managed the contest between Cu Chulainn and a giant named Terrible. She presided over Cu Chulainn's killing of his spring-time rival, in a tale based on the Celtic legend of Gawain and the Green Knight.\n\nMorgan sat at the head of the table in the Green Knight's castle, presiding over death and resurrectionof the rival year-gods as they beheaded one another in thier proper seasons. Gawain was obviously a solar hero, his strength waxing in the morning and waning in the afternoon; he was one of the four brothers representing the four solar seasons. The Green Knight was his perpetual antagonist.\n\nGawain bore Morgan's pentacle as a heraldic device on his blood-red shield. He and his rival seem to have established the ceremony of knighthood, a symbolic decapitation, which formerly transformed a victem into a god at the end of the year.\n\nLate romances deprived Morgan of her divinity and made her human. Morgan became Arthur's sister, yet she still held the power of necromancy, a prototypical witch. She received a fictitious husband, King Uriens of Gore, probably a corrupt form of the classic castrated heaven-god Uranus. Her name was applied to almost anything magical, miraculous, or misleading, as Fata Morgana. An old word for witches' spells, glamor, came from Glamorgan, the Goddess's sacred territory in Wales.\n\nMorgan's mysterious Fortunate Isles continued to appear n Irish folklore up to the present time. It was claimed that off the coast of Galway nine islands rose out of the sea every seven years; but if anyone tryed to reach them by boat they would vanish.\n\n\nI hope this helps out, sorry I got carried away with the length of this response, but it is a favoured subject of mine.
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You mean like King Arthur's wife?
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About 100 years ago or so there was a woman named Mary. One day she had a terrible accident and her face was scratched so badly that she bled to death. But her spirit could not rest. Bloody Mary roams the world as an evil ghost. If you stand in front of a mirror in the dark and say her name three times, you will see her horribly mangled face appear. If you don't turn on the light and run away as fast as you can she will try to scratch your face off. \n\nThe story of the ghost who appears in a mirror when summoned has been told many times in countless variations. Children, following the directions provided in the version they heard, have been trying to contact Bloody Mary for at least 30 years now, perhaps for much longer than that. There's something about the story that makes it almost a tradition at slumber parties and summer camp, or basically anywhere a group of youngsters get together away from the watchful eyes of adults
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You should ask the University of Bath that question.\nThey can best answer your question.
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"In the town of Salem in 1692, eight young townswomen fell victim to "fits, outbreaks of obscene babbling, and wild partying in the local woodland." [1] The girls claimed they were bewitched by other members of the community and possessed by the devil. The initial accusers were Betty Parris and her cousin, Abigail Williams.\n\nThe first three accused were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. Good, orphaned as a teenager at the death of her mother (a French innkeeper), was the town beggar, noted for her strange "muttering". Osborne was a bedridden elderly woman who had gotten on the wrong side of the Puritans when she cheated her first husband's children out of their inheritance, giving it to her new husband. Tituba was the Carib Native American slave of Samuel Parris (a preacher in Salem Village); though she is very often referred to as black in modern historical and fictional interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything but Native American."\n\nCheck out the source link, it's really interesting and explains the whole story and the possible reasons behind the behaviour of the people accusing the people of witchcraft.  At the bottom of the page is more links for more information on the salem witch trials.  Good luck!
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According to some sources she was Adams first wife, she left the garden of eden of her free will as she refused to be subservient to Adam (good on her!).  The various myths and stories are explained in the link below.
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ABIGAIL\nMemorial \n1 September \nProfile \nJewish laywoman. Wife of King David. Old Testament matriarch. One of the seven women considered a prophet by the Talmudic scholars. \nBorn \nc.1000 BC \nDied \nc.950 BC \nCanonized \nPre-Congregation \nHard Copy \nprinter friendly version \nTranslate \nespañol | français | deutsch | italiano | português \nReadings \nThen Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord. Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life. For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling. And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel, This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid. \n\nAnd David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face. \n\nAnd Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. And when David had heard that Na
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Try these websites for more info:\nhttp://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html\nhttp://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/\nYes I read "The once and Future King" by T.H. White, many years ago and loved it.  Loosely based on an idea from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (as many other subsequent books were).\n\nthere is a beautiful painting by Edward Burne-Jones called "The Last sleep of Arthur" - see website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_last_sleep_of_Arthur.jpg
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She was the first wife of Adam created as his helper.  Myths tell tales of Lilith choosing her freedom over Eden and the children of Adam's she'd given birth to.  She then hid in a cave and took the demons as her partner and spawned many demon children.  Stories differ though, Christians liken her to the serpent which seduced Eve.  Where you can find her is really not applicaple, you don't find her, she finds you!
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According to the popular story, the beautiful Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. Only one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in the first famous instance of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. In the end, Godiva's husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes\n\n(Text taken from link below)
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i knew one personally.  she was married to the loch ness monster.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/index.shtml
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There is no mention of a "maid" specifically for Elaine.   She is the daughter of Sir Bernard of Astolat and is also sometimes called:\n\nElaine the White\nElaine the Fair\nMaid of Astolat