Tag: penelope

• Hog-Faced Woman ISO Single Male for Love, Marriage, Transformation

  Human culture is a strange and wonderful thing. I’ve been reading about a genre of folk stories that have as a central character a “hog-faced woman,” and I’m left shaking my head at the uncanniness of human imagination. These tales seem to have arisen in the early 17th century concurrently in England, The Netherlands, and […]

  Out of Time

  September 23, 2014

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  early modern, hog-faced woman, loathly lady, penelope, phsyiognomy, pig-faced woman, Tannakin skinker