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The nine sorceresses or nine sisters (Welsh: naw chwaer) are a recurring element in Arthurian legend in variants of the popular nine maidens theme from world mythologies.
In Arthurian material, the best known of these groups are the Nine sorceresses, Morgan and her sisters who live on the Isle of Avalon and are both seeresses and healers. Another group occur in the Welsh tale of Peredur son of Efrawg , and these are the armed witches of Caer Lyow. [4]
Peredur son of Effrawg, King Arthur, Gwalchmai, Owain, Cei, Nine Sorceresses, Angharad Peredur son of Efrawg is one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion . It tells a story roughly analogous to Chrétien de Troyes ' unfinished romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail , but it contains many striking differences from that ...
Sorceress (fantasy) or magician, a type of fictional character. The Sorceress (play), an 1878 play by Abraham Goldfaden. The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, a 2009 novel by Michael Scott.
This epic of Mali celebrates a conquering warrior king, but in places reflects traces of powerful shamanic priestesses, known as the “Nine Sorceresses of Mande.” The hero Mare Diarra, more commonly known as Emir Sunjatta, founded the great Malinke kingdom circa 1235.
Jul 6, 2018 · In 43 AD Pomponius Mela, the earliest Roman geographer, wrote about: “a group of nine sorceresses… on an island in the west in the Britannic Sea… famous for its oracle, whose priestesses, sanctified by perpetual virginity are reportedly nine in number.”
Mela’s 1st century account recorded the supernatural attributes most often associated with the nine females within world myths, which were: island dwellers, shape shifters, healers, controllers of the weather and the ability to predict future events.
