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... woman's secret if woman will bestow it on you — as the crone does . Even then , she performs her magical transformation behind the bed - curtain , and only after she has become young and beautiful does she invite the knight , " Cast up ...
... woman's secret if woman will bestow it on you — as the crone does . Even then , she performs her magical transformation behind the bed - curtain , and only after she has become young and beautiful does she invite the knight , " Cast up ...
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... woman's ability to humiliate and dominate man by means of her power over his vulnerable body . The story also sug- gests the maternal quality of this power , for it demonstrates not only woman's power over man , but also the giving ...
... woman's ability to humiliate and dominate man by means of her power over his vulnerable body . The story also sug- gests the maternal quality of this power , for it demonstrates not only woman's power over man , but also the giving ...
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... woman to the finding of treasure in earth — dirt . The image is hardly a very complimentary one to the fair sex , and indeed he refers in the fourth stanza to the ladies he contemplates seducing as " meaner Beauties . " His images treat ...
... woman to the finding of treasure in earth — dirt . The image is hardly a very complimentary one to the fair sex , and indeed he refers in the fourth stanza to the ladies he contemplates seducing as " meaner Beauties . " His images treat ...
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A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
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