With the aid of Edith Hamilton‘s classic text, Mythology, and the Theoi Greek Mythology site, I bring you the top five lesser-known misogynistic mythological creatures.
- Harpies: Frightful flying creatures with hooked beaks and claws who always left behind a loathsome stench.
- Gray Women: Extremely withered and strange trio of women. Shared one tooth and one eye. Inserted and removed eyeball in their foreheads.
- Gorgades: A tribe of female creatures whose bodies were covered entirely with hair.
- Akhlys: The demon of misery. Pale green hag with bleeding cheeks and tear-stained eyes.
- Empousai: Fierce underworld demons who used the guise of sexually attractive raven-haired women to lure young men to their death. Had mismatched legs of brass and donkey.
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