Furies
The Furies are the unceasing avengers of blood-guilt and betrayed kinship, serpent-haired sisters whose pursuit is the psyche's refusal to let a crime go unowned.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Spirit World / Mythical Beings
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Greek mythology (1)
- Same group
- AngelCyclops/GiantDragonMermaidSiren and 3 more
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Furies is Greek mythology
why
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Furies are Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, avenging spirits born from the blood of the castrated sky god Uranus who relentlessly pursue and punish serious wrongdoing, especially crimes against kin.