Essays Tagged: "Elder Mother"

Fairytales and History

Europe in many ways.Now on with the presentation.The first creature I would like to discuss is the "Elder Tree Mother", or a Dryad. It is a creature that represents a woman embedded within a tree, blo ... blossoms covering her body. Popular folklore emerged in England and the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Elder Mother was used mostly to teach a lesson. It made men afraid to carelessly chop down trees in ...

(4 pages) 4 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History