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Bradamante is depicted as one of the greatest female knights in literature. She is an expert fighter, and wields a magical lance that unhorses anyone it touches. She is also one of the main characters in several novels including Italo Calvino's surrealistic, highly ironic novel Il Cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight).
Female folklore characters (4 C, 2 P) ... Women warriors in literature and culture; Y. Yrsa ... Category: Women in mythology.
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 460 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Manto (mythology) Marpessa; Meda (mythology) Medusa; Megalai Ehoiai; Meganeira; Melantho (Odyssey) Melia (mythology) Meliboea of Ephesus; Melite (heroine) Memphis (mythology) Menippe and Metioche; Merope (daughter of Oenopion) Mese (mythology) Mestra; Meta (mythology) Milye; Mnesimache; Moirai; Molione (mythology) Myia (mythology) Myrice ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Siraya mythology Takaraenpada Egyptian mythology Ahti ... Haashchʼéé Baʼáádí (Hastsébaádi, Qastcebaad, Yebaad) (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí ...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818): Female version of the creature created by Victor Frankenstein – he destroys it before it can be brought to life [3] The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837): The title character is a mermaid; The Succubus by Honoré de Balzac (1837): A succubus disguised as a woman [4]
Her cult was the most far-reaching of any goddess, [74] and she presided over female (as well as male) initiation rites. [75] She is among the oldest of the Greek gods, and is closely linked with Asia Minor. [76] In Homeric epic, she is described as a talented hunter who traverses the Arcadian mountains, accompanied by a retinue of nymphs. [77]