Crone
The Crone Is Also The Hag
A crone is not unlike the other word, “hag” which is less politically correct when used in front of crones; –for instance, one can rest assured that one’s grandmother would surely slap one if they were to call her a hag to her face, however, crone might get a better response. Crone seems to denote ...
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Baba Yaga
One version of the crone in popular Slavic folklore is Baba Yaga, sometimes malevolent, sometimes beneficent, but always dangerous. Many cultures have the Baba Yaga legends, such as the Russian, Bulgarians, Slovene, Slovak, Bosnian, Croatian, Ukrainian, Macedonian and Serbian, –and that is to name only a few. Naturally if you travel the world, stopping in ...
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The Three Fates: Atropos
The crone, in her mythological sense, is most often thought of as a hag or a witch from fairy tales, and folklore warning to children not to stray into the woods or near the river. However, the crone’s second most popular association is with Atropos, whether or not people actually remember that is her name. ...
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Black Annis
Black Annis is another version of the crone character in English folklore, in the form of a witch, something like Jenny Greenteeth, however, she does not live in the water. Black Annis resembles the story of a kind of bogeyman, except naturally female. Black Annis lives, according to English legends, in a cave somewhere in ...
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The Morrighan
Warfare in the history of Ireland was frequent, and according to some of the earliest Irish folklore, there was at one point a goddess of warfare, or a goddess of the fallen on the battlefield. However, the Morrighan is not explicitly described as a goddess in most of the literature she is featured in. The ...
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