Everything You’ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie
Including their very existence.
by Sarah Laskow July 12, 2017
"...What accounts for the persistence of this story? “Male fear,” according to Classen. “There’s always a lover in the background who already has the duplicate key, he says. In other words, even in the 1500s, no one took the idea of locked-up metal underwear very seriously as an effective anti-sex device. When chastity belts were depicted, it was in the Renaissance equivalent of Robin Hood: Men in Tights—and the audiences for those pieces of art probably thought the idea of a metal chastity belt just as giggle-worthy as late 20th-century teenagers did..."
#FolkyFriday: Queen #Medb went to her chief #druid and demanded of him what her own lot in the Tain Bó Cuilgne should be. But the druid said only: “Whoever comes back in safety, or comes not, thou thyself shalt come.”
Source: Dru Magus #Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
Lossless Audio Does Not Sound Better Than MP3 To Most People
Apple, Amazon, and Tidal offer “lossless audio,” claiming users can “hear the exact same thing” an artist created in the studio. However, it’s a myth that lossless audio objectively sounds better than MP3, and most users can’t hear a difference at a ...continues
Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West by Kevin Mills
An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.
Greetings, myth lovers! To see out #BlackHistoryMonth, our theme this week is: Drums!
Which #myths involve drums or drum music? Tell us the #myth and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Fairy tales and myths, anyone? I am enjoying Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani. I am finding that I know some of these stories, but not all. And some of them I know different versions of. This book would be fun to share with the kiddos before bed.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: The words of #Niamh of the Golden Hair sparked in Oisin a irresistible craving to live with her in the #Otherworld:
“Delightful is the land beyond all dreams,
Fairer than aught thine eyes have ever seen.
There all the year the fruit is on the tree,
And all the year the bloom is on the flower.
There with wild honey drip the forest trees;
The stores of wine and mead shall never fail.
...“
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
Greetings, myth lovers! In the wake of #ValentinesDay our theme this week is: Sweets and sweet things 🍬 Which #myths talk about a sweet treat or other sweet things? Tell us the #myth and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Three blind men touch an elephant in three different places, such as a leg, trunk, or tusk. Each therefore reaches a very different conclusion (e.g., it's a tree) as to what the phenomenon is.
Interpretation: We cannot very well see things or people as a whole. Even the perspectives in #academia come from different disciplines. Different people looking at a multifaceted individual can each draw a very different image of the person.
Three animals cross a river, and each reaches the other shore. The rabbit swims along the surface, the horse occasionally hits bottom, but the elephant touches bottom all the way.
Interpretation: This is a parable of enlightenment or individual differences in wisdom. People can only understand things to their own depth. They might therefore avoid a person who is too heavy like the elephant. Just sayin"!
Hello, Myth Lovers! Since #Valentinesday2024 is coming up, our weekly theme is: Love, Lust, Desire. 🏹Which #myths talk about lust or desire? Write out a story and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts.
In Finland there’s a beautiful folktale about how the fox creates the aurora borealis.
The Firefox is a mythical and elusive animal from the icy northern lands, and the folklore of the Firefox says that as the Fox runs across the snowy land, it’s red tail throws crystals of snow into the sky and the fur catches on the trees, setting the skies on fire.🦊🦊🦊
Your Phone Is Not Listening to You: The tech myth has pervaded all corners of society, but its origins show it was never true to begin with
The myth has taken off so much in the last eight years because it feels like it could be true. You do get hyper-targeted ads on Facebook and Google, but it’s not because your phone is listening to you.
You may be typing your thoughts into your phone more t ...continues
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: The exceedingly beautiful maiden Niamh was riding on a snow-white steed. She wore the garb of a queen; a crown of gold was on her head, and a dark-brown mantle of silk, set with stars of red gold, fell around her and trailed on the ground. Silver shoes were on her horse's hoofs, and a crest of gold nodded on his head.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
#FairyTaleTuesday: #Etain, daughter of Etar, wore a bright purple mantle waved round her; and beneath it was another mantle ornamented with silver fringes: the outer mantle was clasped over her bosom with a golden brooch. A tunic she wore with a long hood that might cover her head attached to it; it was stiff and glossy with green silk beneath red embroidery of gold, and was clasped over her breasts with marvellously wrought clasps of silver and gold; so that men saw the bright gold and the green silk flashing against the sun.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
my ret-con(stellation) of the #Pleiades#myth: extends the podcast-extended-universe -- the Pleiades are now the global superheroes of protecting nature.
I'm reading The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood (mentioned in our #Andromeda episodes: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes) & it made me so mad, I just moved our Perseus episode down on the scheduled list (we were supposed to do it after we finish Orion, but I can't even look at Perseus rn)
Ok my kid is trying to develop a study for AP research on political bias. She needs to find examples of myths liberals buy.
Yes, I know that the very nature of being liberal makes it a little harder to get duped (I don't think it's because we're smarter per se, I think it's because we don't care if our "team" is wrong).