White Rose of Avalon

Femme Fatale Friday

  • Veronica Franco: Dangerous Beauty, Courtesan, and Poet

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about the iconic poet and Courtesan Veronica Franco!   She was the subject of the 1998 film Dangerous Beauty, which was based on the biography The Honest Courtesan by Margaret F. Rosenthal.    Veronica Franco was born in…

  • Brigid of Avalon: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is a poem about Brigid and her connections to Avalon, in honor of Imbolc being tomorrow! Brigid of Avalon by Maranda Wabik The Candles are lit With warm golden light overtaking The Sight in the White Spring The scene…

  • Folk Horror and the Feminine Experience

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is about how Folk Horror depicts the Feminine Experience!   I will explore this topic by briefly looking at five different films that show aspects of the Feminine Experience in Folk Horror.   I have broken this into…

  • Embracing Venusian Energy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to focus on one of my favorite topics, embracing Venusian energy!   As the planet Venus is directly related to Divine Feminine Energy, with the Celtic Venus being deeply represented within many a Faery Queen Goddess,…

  • Margaery Tyrell, Rose Queen of Westeros

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about one of my favorite Game of Thrones characters, Margaery Tyrell!   I knew she would be a favorite before even reading the books or watching the series because I knew she was played by the incredible Natalie…

  • The Heroine of ‘Nosferatu’: Centering the Lucy Character?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For his first Femme Fatale Friday of the New Year, I just had to write about the leading lady of all the Nosferatu films.   While I kept my post on Saturday about the three films spoiler-free for the new one, this post will not…

  • La Befana, the Italian Christmas Witch

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For the last Femme Fatale Friday of December, I have decided to write about La Befana, the Italian Christmas Witch!   Now, La Befana is not quite like the other Christmas and Yuletide Witches I have covered, as she is not seen as a malevolent…

  • Morgan le Fay and Guinevere in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’: the Winter Goddess and the Summer Goddess

    Welcome to day six of the Green Knight Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!    Today’s post is also this week’s Femme Fatale Friday post, so I will be discussing Morgan le Fay and her plot to kill Guinevere in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a battle between a Winter…

  • Freya and Fólkvangr, a December Friday the 13th Special!

    Happy Friday the 13th, and welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!   As it is Friday the 13th of December, I have decided that this week’s Femme Fatale Friday will be about Freya and Fólkvangr, exploring her aspect as a Death Goddess.   I thought that this would be the ideal aspect…

  • Marzanna, Slavic Winter Goddess

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Marzanna, the Winter Goddess from Slavic folklore, in honor of the first Friday post of December!   To clarify, her name is different depending on the specific Slavic region.   Here is a list of her many…