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Lady of the Library
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Hi, I'm Cinzia DuBois. I'm a dyslexic PhD student who loves to write mini-essays about dark tales from history and literature.
The First Wicked Stepmothers: A Brief History
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Cinderella, Handsel and Gretel, and Snow White were all victims of an evil stepmother, a popular fairytale trope that has been used repeatedly throughout films and novels ever since. But where did the trope of the wicked stepmother come from? In this video, we explore some of the earliest tales of wicked stepmothers from ancient mythology and history.
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WHO AM I?
Hey there, I’m Cinzia DuBois On this channel, I talk about dark and ancient history, literature and folklore.
❗️DISCLAIMER
I'm very dyslexic, so I apologise for any mispronunciations that occur when I'm reading scripts for videos. Additionally, whilst flattered, I'm only a PhD student and not a professional educator. As such, I would advise against ever citing my videos or using them as an academic resource: please instead cite references for papers I list in the description box.
Cinderella, Handsel and Gretel, and Snow White were all victims of an evil stepmother, a popular fairytale trope that has been used repeatedly throughout films and novels ever since. But where did the trope of the wicked stepmother come from? In this video, we explore some of the earliest tales of wicked stepmothers from ancient mythology and history.
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📚 Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/6341226-c-dubois
WHO AM I?
Hey there, I’m Cinzia DuBois On this channel, I talk about dark and ancient history, literature and folklore.
❗️DISCLAIMER
I'm very dyslexic, so I apologise for any mispronunciations that occur when I'm reading scripts for videos. Additionally, whilst flattered, I'm only a PhD student and not a professional educator. As such, I would advise against ever citing my videos or using them as an academic resource: please instead cite references for papers I list in the description box.
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The First Exorcisms | The Ancient Origins of the Exorcism
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Spontaneous Human Combustion | Debunking Historic Mysteries
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my channel is dying. why I'm not giving up yet
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Tortured Poets That Make Taylor Swift Sound Euphoric | the History of the "tortured artist"
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✨ Go to betterhelp.com/cinzia for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help #advert Taylor Swift's album "The Tortured Poet's Department" leans on a centuries-old idea that the greatest creative minds are not mentally well. Does creativity breed "madness", or does mental ill-health make us more creative? In this video. I look a...
I'm Not a Real Classicist
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How I Annotate Books as a PhD Student
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Head to squarespace.com/ladyofthelibrary to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ladyofthelibrary Have you ever wondered why some people write in the margins of their books? What are academics noting down when they highlight or underline words? In this video, I explain my process for annotating my books for my research as a dyslexic PhD student. GET MORE FROM ME: ✨...
Panic Writing and Last Minute Deadlines | PhD Diaries Ep.2
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What Am I Doing After my PhD? | PhD Diaries Ep.1
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Did Netflix "Make" Alexander The Great Gay?
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Academic Aestheticism. Superficial, pseudo-intellectualism, or something deeper?
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Don't know what to study at College? How to pick your perfect subject
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Reading Without an Imagination
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5 Books that Will Change the Way You Think
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How to Get the Most out of a Book | Analytical Reading
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I Failed My Exams | Failure and Imposter Syndrome in Academia.
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I Failed My Exams | Failure and Imposter Syndrome in Academia.
my reading phobia. opening up about my fear of reading
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my reading phobia. opening up about my fear of reading
an unhinged rant about Love Actually
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an unhinged rant about Love Actually
Bedlam Asylum's Haunting History | The Dark Past of Mental Health Treatment
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Oxford University’s Dark Academia: The Gruesome Medieval History of Oxford Uni Students
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Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle: "Unexplained" Vanishings Debunked
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The Boogeyman | The Unknown Monster Under Your Bed
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The Original Headless Horseman | The Dullahan
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The Original Headless Horseman | The Dullahan
Trick or Treat | A History of Souling, Guising and Trick or Treating
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The History of Halloween | Samhain
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The History of Halloween | Samhain
Medea | The Myth of the "Ruthless" Ancient Sorceress
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Medea | The Myth of the "Ruthless" Ancient Sorceress
The Witch Trials of North Berwick | Dark Pages & Eerie Epistles Podcast Ep.5
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The Aztec Lady of the Dead | Mictēcacihuātl
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The Aztec Lady of the Dead | Mictēcacihuātl
I believe in you
This "Rome never existed" theory REEKS of Psuedo History like Tartaria
Being greek myself and checking what do foreigners read from Greece.
Cinzia you look really awesome in your younger age. Why men rejected you ?? I don't understand why you face so much rejection. Just stick to yourself.. you're not dying
I’ve come back two years on to rewatch this and giggle uncontrollably 🤣
Find it weird not more people in talking about Alexander having a thing for his mother.
I'm still here.
Trumps MAGA lunatics are saying almost the same kind of crazy crap and 30% of the U.S. population believe it.
I enjoy listening to your voice, both alluring and calming.
Cinzia do not listen to toxic people like this for too long. It is not worth the madness. We all know she is insane. She probably lives in a shed behind her parents home. Where she smokes tons of meth and creates this rubbish content. You can not argue with the legally insane. They always win. Because they truly believe in their own madness. 😳 It is best to walk away. Block them or run for the hills. 😂 Have some ice cream and laugh about it with sane friends. Maybe visit the Colosseum an Engineering Marvel; not a prop.
U cannot complete grad school and work. Pick one.
You are a lovely human being. I hope you will choose to continue sharing your insights & literary passions via UA-cam. Your presentation is excellent. With your permission, if granted, I shall--figuratively speaking--hold the Torch of Hope aloft to you. You are a gift to the planet. 🌿💐🌿🕯💚🕯🌿💐🌿
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A grim history of Oxford I had no idea of... I have been half in love with the idea of Oxford for half my life (ever since I read Northern Lights!), and since my sister started studying Archaeology there a few years back I finally had reason to cross the globe and spends some time there. And it is genuinely one of the most amazing places I've been, so weighed down with history. Just found your channel today, but really liking what I've seen of your content, both the deep dives and the short essays. Thank you for your work!
This is the first video I've seen of yours, and I really enjoyed it! I'm subscribing to the SelfHelpShelf. I'm happy for this community, and excited to take a peek <3
I was in a fabulous bar in Valletta, wonderful place then the realky lovely waiter gave us our drinks, as he strechef out his arm there was Medusas decapitated head tattoed on him. Spontaniously we both roared NO!!!!!! We had a friendly chat about it, my young daughter takes no prisoners! 😂
My first thought on the 9000 years thing was that it was just a way of saying "a long time ago" similar to the way some people use "a million years ago."
Considering the fact that Cleopatra was predominately Macedonian and to a lesser extent Persian. I would say no.
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I am watching this a year later and you have nearly 200,000 subscribers, so you are far better than mediocre, my dear. Please don't put yourself down.
Not mine just in a site i found but i thought it would be cool to translate it and post it Its name probably comes from the root pa, which means guarding or nurturing, from which the verb "paomai" (to acquire, to keep) comes from. Panas, as his name suggests, symbolizes the World, the Pan? Its ambiguous form perhaps symbolizes the harmony of the world that arose out of chaos, which the cosmic divine powers serve and maintain. Pan the son of Hermes is two-brained (half-man, half-goat), because speech expresses everything and is constantly revolving, and is of two kinds, true and false. Well, the true part of him is lion and divine and dwells above the abode of the gods, while the false part lives below among the crowd and is rough and tragic. Because most myths and lies revolve around this issue, that is, the tragic life. Pan flirts with the Nymphs, because these Entities undertake the weaving of the soul with the body, during incarnation, so they sustain Life. And the Word manifests and is cultivated within a Perfect Being that Lives in the sublunar fields. Pan, according to the myth, is in love with Aphrodite because those souls who incarnate and receive the influence of speech, tend towards the Notional Kallos, represented by the Goddess, harmonizing their surroundings, according to Timaeon, which are disturbed by the entrance of of soul in matter. That is why Pan plays the Syringe, which has Seven flutes in an array, symbolizing the human Soul with its Seven Centers and by playing Music (supplication) harmonizes it. The combination of the human and animal form of Panos symbolizes, on a human level, the world-historical event of the Promethean man's exit from the caves and forests, when he separated himself from the rest of the animal kingdom, creating human civilization. The lower animal part of Pana symbolizes the animal instincts and passions that keep man captive in matter, while the upper part represents the thinking man. The belt has always been a symbol of isolation of the upper torso, as closest to the higher nature of man, the soul and spirit which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal kingdom. The lower part of the trunk being closest to the ground symbolized matter. For this reason, the initiates also wore the purple belt around their waists, as a sign of their initiation, and of the knowledge that man is superior to his animal passions, as "above religion". Horns always symbolize, as we have often mentioned, the connection of man with the Divine. Horns also symbolize the moon, which illuminates the darkness, borrowing light from the Sun. Man's purpose is to become self-luminous, and not heteroluminous like the Moon. In this way, Pan is the hierophant who leads the mystic's soul towards self-knowledge and "Theosis". Its symbol is the goat which climbs the difficult paths of the paths of knowledge and self-knowledge. Panas in his lower monstrous animal state, like all monstrous beings in Greek mythology, represent animal passions, mental weaknesses, defects, perversions and phobias. In his higher human status he symbolizes not only the intelligent man, but the man who tries to conquer "self-knowledge".
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I’m researching how to organize research for writing a fiction book, so not exactly the same, but this was still super helpful. It’s been a loooong time since I graduated and I don’t think I was ever great at organizing research. Thank you for this!
The Romanovs? Does this have something to do with the idea of the Third Rome?
"Your master's feels like you're being hit by a bullet train, whereas your Ph.D. feels like you're being run over by an extremely heavy, long, slow steam engine, and it just keeps going, it never stops running you over." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😆😁😄😃😀😐😑🙁☹😞😟😩😫😣😖😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Boring slag.
Must we leave food directly in the center of a crossroads? Or can we tuck it away near a corner of the crossroads? I'm worried about animals running out to eat it and getting hurt. hmmm.... My intuition says "tucked at the corner" is a delightful idea! That's what I'm going to do. Not sure why I actually needed to post this question, but intuition also says, "post it!" so maybe there is someone's reply we all need to see...? Blessings to all you Sisters. 🤎
Your stories are so fascinating though. I always learn something new. But it's also how you tell the story. Have you considered making videos where you don't show yourself? Then the videos could be the product and not as much focus on yourself. You have a great voice for narrating videos too! I'm always recommending your channel to people.
Thank you. You already made the video, but 😈
Thank you for the awesome video. And a glimpse of your canine family!
I see a coton de tuleaur! 🥰 Had to rewind the video to listen again because I got distracted by the pupper. Then got distracted by your gloriously thriving Golden Vine 🤣 A great topic as always, I'm gonna keep listening were you on camera or not. The topics you choose are too interesting to miss and I frankly don't care if there's a human on screen or not 🤷♀
haha I’m afraid he’s not that fancy a pooch! he’s a wonderful little mutt of many different origins. Thank you so much!
Interesting, it’s quite possible that the Medusa myth is tied to Medea the daughter of king Aeëtes of Colchis, she was also a priestess of the goddess Hecate & a sorceress that was often depicted with long flowing hair & snakes, she had a very good knowledge of medicines "she probably could get you hypnotised & stoned" with just a look, lol 😂 😆 quite possibly a connection with these two characters, in my opinion???
Girll! A year later it’s still hot. Having a ice tea lol
i do wonder about why hades and persephone in particular are so incredibly romanticized (i dont usually like how that word is used wrt dark fiction but its pretty literal here i think. myths of this calibre are a little different i feel), when apollo and hyacinthus are *right there*. but they were a queer couple, so i guess thats why they havent been talked about historically. theyd have a lot of catching up to do against hades and persephone for modern audiences :/
let me clear some things out all the misunderstanding comes from this two words 1. εραστής 2. ερωμένος two epithets that in modern greek means the same thing which translates simply to (lover) but ancient greek is still studied and examined untill this day. In ancient texts these two words are used almost always in the same sentences but why use the same word with the same meaning to desribe smth? This is what it actually meant it's original meaning «Εραστής και Ερώμενος» = Teacher and Student in the military and schools in ancient Greece: The misunderstood meaning of two words, a concept that has changed today. This is not the only words that has a different meaning in modern greek many many words have changed it's original meaning one more example is <<αγορά>> today it translates simply as market/emporium. Ancient meaning is a place where people speak.
I have a theory as to why Artemis would kill Ariadne but I am no means a greek methology expert. Artemis as the goddess of the hunt usually protects sacred animals and the bull and it's descendant the minotaur are part of her domain idk (Artemis also hunts other sacred animals herself so this theory is weak but just an idea tho) with Ariadne helping to kill the Minotaur that might've slighted her but idk how it would fit with the Dionysus- Artemis beef
There are still ruins of ancient rome that still stand
Hades 2 how are you
athena is also the goddess who sends the demons to test you
ah yes the big church crimes they found all those people with phychological issues where they were talking weird and shout stuff see delusions and they declared them demonics so they killed them.
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But isn't EVERYTHING just a figment of the Matrix dude? Nothing exists. She, you, I...none of it exists, man. [dislodging tongue from cheek] I seriously don't know how these quacks wake up in the morning and not expect not to roll out of bed into a cosmic abyss.
Why do you feel you have to do it alone?
I'm probably the epitome of aesthetic intellectualism. However, I don't talk much. I tinker in academia, so I stay in my lane.
Thanku for putting Robert Graves in his place
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I ❤ my mom
good video