the usual conventions. Lucy Larcom's anti-war and anti-slavery ballad "Weaving" is a soliloquy of a northern factory woman working at her loom who compares the cloth she weaves with a Nessus-robe for the Southern slave women who suffered to produce the cotton. References in Film and Television In the 1994 movie Hercules in the Underworld, similar to the original myth, Nessus tricks Deianeira into believing his blood will keep Hercules faithful. When she suspects Hercules is having an affair with Iole, she sends him a cloak smeared with the blood. When he puts it on, it comes to life and tries to strangle him, but he manages to tear it off and destroy it. References in non-fiction The Shirt of Nessus is a 1956 non-fiction book dealing with anti-Nazi groups in Germany during World War II. The Polish dissident writer Jan Józef Lipski published a collection of essays called Tunika Nessosa ("The Shirt of Nessos"), dealing with, and critical of, Polish Catholic nationalism. Lipski called nationalism the shirt of Nessos, which destroys the cultural genius of a nation. Uri Avnery has compared the territories occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War to the Shirt of Nessus. References Bibliography Baughman, Ernest W., Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America, Walter De Gruyter, June 1966. . Mayor, Adrienne, "The Nessus Shirt in the New World: Smallpox Blankets in History and Legend," Journal of American Folklore 108:427:54 (1995). External links Hercules Poisoned by the Shirt of Nessus, a 15th-century illumination at the Getty Museum. Classical mythology in popular culture Aetolian mythology Fictional garments Mythological clothing Mythology of Heracles Shirts