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What are the female demons in Greek fairy tales?

1, medusa

Medusa is a beautiful centaur from Taulos. According to Metamorphosis 4.770 written by the poet Ovid, she is a beautiful girl.

Because of dating Poseidon privately (some versions say that Medusa was cursed by Athena because of her beauty, and she overreached with the goddess of wisdom), Athena turned Medusa's hair into a poisonous snake in a rage.

And put a curse on her, anyone who looks directly into Medusa's eyes will become a stone statue, thus becoming an ugly monster. A more widespread legend is that Poseidon was attracted by Medusa's beauty and raped her in the temple of Athena.

This angered Athena. Athena could not punish Poseidon, so she turned Medusa into a terrible snake hair. Let any man who sees her eyes turn to stone immediately.

Medusa was finally taken down by Poerxiusi and presented to Athena, who embedded Medusa's head in the center of the statue of Zeus. Later, the word Medusa had the meaning of "extremely ugly woman".

2. Medea

Medea, also translated by Mitija. In Greek mythology, she was an enchanted princess of Kocsis Island and a descendant of Helius, the sun god. She fell in love with Prince Jason who came to the island to look for golden fleece.

In order to help Jason get golden fleece, Medea used her magic to help Jason accomplish the impossible task set by her father, provided that Jason would marry her. After getting golden fleece, Medea and Jason embarked on a journey back to Greece together.

Medea's father heard the news of her escape and sent her brother to find her. Medea killed his younger brother, cut his body open, cut it into pieces, and threw it all over the mountain, leaving his father and the chasing officers busy collecting the body.

Leave with Jason and his party to buy time. After Jason returned to China, Medea killed his uncle who usurped the throne. Jason regained the throne, but began to fear Medea's magic and cruelty.

Later, Jason turned from love to hate, and Medea killed her two young children. At the same time, she killed Jason's new love with poison clothes and fled from Jason. Jason also died of depression.

3. Aphrodite

Aphrodite (Greek: α φ ρ ο δ? τη; English; Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in ancient Greek mythology, the pillar of the twelve gods of Olympus, and is called Venus in Roman mythology.

Aphrodite is not only the goddess of sex, but also the goddess in charge of all human friendship. Aphrodite was born in the sea and has white porcelain skin. She is a blonde. Aphrodite has the most perfect figure and appearance of ancient Greek women.

It symbolizes love and women's beauty, and is regarded as the highest symbol of women's physical beauty, a mixture of elegance and charm. All her actions and words are worth keeping and serving as a model, but they cannot represent women's chastity.

Aphrodite is the wife of Hercules, the god of forging and handicraft, but she is often unfaithful to her husband. There are many legends about her love. In the works of art in ancient Greece and Rome, she was portrayed as a stunning beauty.

4. Shula

Her body has six heads and twelve feet, and a cat's tail. She guards one side of the Messina Strait, and on the other side of the Strait is a whirlpool called Charybdis.

When ships pass through the channel, they can only choose to pass through the kaleb Dis Vortex or her territory. And when the ship passes by, she will eat the six crew members on board. Ovid, an ancient Roman poet, described Shula's life.

Shula was originally a water sprite, and she was one of many children in SHEN WOO Erkus. Among her brothers and sisters, the famous ones are Sister Hesperides, the keeper of the Golden Apple Orchard, and three Medusa sisters.

Thurss, the mother of Polyphemus the Cyclops and three Greer sisters who share one eye and one tooth. Shula fell in love with the handsome fisherman Glaucus while walking by the water.

However, Shula didn't like him and avoided his pursuit. So Glauco told the witch Circe about her love and asked for help. Because of these love stories, Circe fell in love with the fisherman.

However, Glauco did not accept her love. Circe, who loves and hates, blames all the resentment on Schula, and throws a potion in Schula's bath water to make her lower body look like a terrible monster with six legs.

5. Mole

Ekdena (mole; ; Ancient Greek:? χ ι ν α) is a half-human, half-snake monster in ancient Greek mythology. The upper part is a beautiful woman, but the lower part is a snake (sometimes there are two snake tails).

There are different opinions about where the mole lives. Some people say that she lives in the underworld, others say that she lives in Skeeter, and others say that she lives in an unfathomable cave named Arima below Chilia.

Burroughs, Xu Dela, Lerner's Hydra, kamala, a fire-breathing monster, and the winged Sphinx are all children of Aked.