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BRITISH HAG

A fairy from the British Isles. She is said to be the traces of the most ancient goddesses. The hag is regarded as the personification of winter.

In the winter months she is usually old and very ugly looking. As the season changes though she becomes more and more beautiful, and younger.

Tangles in the manes of horses and ponies are called hag-knots, supposed to be used witches as stirrups.

The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride,
The devil and she together;
Through thick and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'er so foul be the weather.


Robert Herrick (1591-1674), The Hag


 

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