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  2. The Witches (Hans Baldung) - Wikipedia

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    The unrestrained, flowing hair of the witches is also a sex symbol. According to the Malleus Maleficarum, loose hair would draw the devil's fascination and distract men during worship. [3] Long hair could also hide witch's marks or charms, to this end inquisitors would often order that a suspected witch's body be shaved of all hair preceding a ...

  3. Flowing Hair - Wikipedia

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    3 References. Toggle the table of contents. Flowing Hair. 1 language. ... Flowing Hair coinage was issued in the United States between 1793 and 1795.

  4. Aloïse Corbaz - Wikipedia

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    Her work is erotic, consisting primarily of beautiful women with voluptuous curves and flowing hair attended by lovers in military uniform. She used the vivid colors of crayons, pencils, and flower juice to fill entire sheets of paper. Her compulsion to make marks on every inch of paper is a "horror vacui" remarkably similar to that of Adolf ...

  5. List of hairstyles - Wikipedia

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    The hair on the sides and back of the head is usually tapered short, semi-short or medium. Curtained hair: Curtained hair is the term given to the hairstyle featuring a long fringe divided in either a middle parting or a side parting. The hairstyle was popular on adolescents and men from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s.

  6. Hairstyles of Japanese women - Wikipedia

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    The style at this time was to wear long, loose, straight hair. "Floor-length black tresses were considered the height of beauty." [4] The 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari) describes women showing off their long, flowing hair. Tosa Mitsuoki—Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu. Taregami

  7. Nihongami - Wikipedia

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    Antique nihongami katsura (wig) in a display case. The yuiwata hairstyle. Many hairstyles now labelled nihongami were developed during the Edo period, when a preference amongst women for long, flowing hairstyles transitioned towards more elaborate, upswept styles, featuring buns at the back of the neck and 'wings' at either side of the head.

  8. Ītzpāpālōtl - Wikipedia

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    Ītzpāpalōtl [a] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a goddess in Aztec religion.. She was a striking skeletal warrior and death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh.She ruled over the paradise world of Tamōhuānchān, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created.

  9. The Triumph of Science over Death - Wikipedia

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    The Triumph of Science over Death, also known as Scientia, is a clay sculpture made by José Rizal as a gift to his friend Ferdinand Blumentritt. [1]The statue depicts a young, nude woman with flowing hair, standing on a skull while bearing a torch.