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Femme Fatale Friday

  • Morgan Le Fay: Evil Enchantress

    Hello my lovely readers, and welcome to another Femme Fatale Friday here at White Rose of Avalon!    This week I will be writing about the truly fatal side of the Arthurian figure of Morgan Le Fay.   I am sure this is a post some of you may have been waiting for, given that…

  • Eris: Goddess of Chaos

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have chosen the Greek goddess Eris.    She was the goddess of chaos, and was known to cause discord wherever she went.    Eris had the Roman name of Discorda, and was closely identified with the war-goddess Enyo (Homer even used the names interchangeably).   In some versions…

  • Vivienne or Nimue: By Any Name the Enchantress of Merlin

    For this weeks’ Femme Fatale Friday I have chosen to take a brief look at the deadly aspect of Vivienne, or Nimue, the Lady of the Lake that became the undoing of Merlin!    No matter which of her many names you call her by, it is evident that in several versions of the Arthurian…

  • Persephone: Queen of the Dead

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday I have chosen the figure of the Greek Goddess Persephone.   She is a deity who began as a goddess of springtime and flowers, which made sense given her mother was hearth goddess Demeter.    She would become Queen of the Dead when she married the god of the…

  • Elizabeth Woodville as Manipulative Vixen

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday here at White Rose of Avalon I have chosen to look as the negative rumors spread about Elizabeth Woodville!    I have spoken about her love story with her King Edward IV before.   Earlier this week I wrote a comparison between her and Guinevere.   Given that the…

  • Freya and Friday the 13th

    Hello my lovely readers, and welcome to another Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon!    Today it is a special Friday the 13th edition, where I will look at the Norse goddess Freya, and how she was demonized by the Church.    Friday the 13th was the most sacred of her days,…

  • Cleopatra: Deadly Pharaoh

    Hello my lovely readers, and welcome to Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon.    For this week’s femme fatale I have chosen to discuss the life and legend of Cleopatra VII of Egypt.     She was the last queen of Egypt, and an icon of female power in an era when…

  • Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

    Welcome to this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon!  Additionally, today marks my 200th post here at White Rose of Avalon! I would like to thank all my regular readers, and welcome any new readers!   For this week, I will discuss a truly fatal female, Lizzie Borden.    Lizzie Borden…

  • Zelda Fitzgerald

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon, I have chosen to write about Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.    Zelda was the wife of iconic novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, and she was a woman who flouted convention.    She inspired many of his most iconic characters, and in fact was called by…

  • Guinevere as Arthurian Adulteress

    Welcome to the first ever Femme Fatale Friday here at  White Rose of Avalon!    For this first post in this themed Friday series I have chosen to discuss a figure I have talked about often on this site, Arthur’s wife Guinevere.    Today I want to specifically look at Guinevere’s role as an adulteress…