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| | ERINYES : Greek goddesses of retribution, the Furies ; mythology ; pictures : ERINNYES |
 | | On the stage, however, and in works of art, their fearful appearrance was greatly softened down, for they were represented as maidens of a grave and solemn mien, in the richly adorned attire of huntresses, with a band of serpents around their heads, and serpents or torches in their hands. |
 | | Tisiphone, dishevelled as she was, shook her white hair and tossed aside the snakes that masked her face. |
 | | Tisiphone brought with her poisons too of magic power: lip-froth of Cerberus, the Echidna’s venom, wild deliriums, blindnesses of the brain, and crime and tears, and maddened lust for murder; all ground up, mixed with fresh blood, boiled in a pan of bronze, and stirred with a green hemlock stick. |
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