Loathly Ladies

Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the loathly lady: the
hideous hag who knows the secret that the hero seeks, and whom he
must learn how to respect. In the last podcast of the current
series, Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss the figure of the
loathly lady. Sometimes transformed through her own agency,
sometimes the victim of a spell, she knows the secret of what women
really want; can the hero who marries her put his new-found
knowledge into practice? We also talk about monstrously transformed
women; those who await the hero with the courage to look beyond
appearances to the inner beauty of the beast.