i have always noticed this parallel of evil female spiritual figures at night, bringing bad omens and related to the death of children (death in general) and menstrual blood in various cultures. it's always the same thing with long hair, black claws, witch, vampire, etc. in the epic of gilgamesh, a tree is mentioned where a dark female being lived inside it (yes, it is she, the one mentioned in isaiah called "lilith"), at the roots of the tree lived a serpent and at the top lived the giant bird anzu. in west africa there are "ancestral mother" deities that are related to nightmares, abortions, diseases that devour humans, madness, blood and witchcraft. there they are described as winged. they sent a giant bird (reminds me of anzu) to destroy a city there that i don't remember the name of. some of them live in trees, or are trees (same reference to sumerian myth, again). they manifest themselves through the presence of birds that eat the offerings and fly away. here in my region they call her matinta perera. the association with flying wood/broom must have something to do with the asherim/menorahs. > matinta perera is a character from brazilian folklore, more precisely from the north of the country. it is an old witch who at night transforms into an ominous bird that lands on the walls and roofs of houses and begins to whistle, and only stops when the resident, already very enraged by the shrill whistle, promises her something to give her. stop (usually tobacco, but it can also be coffee, cachaa or fish). so, the matinta stops and flies, and the next day it goes to the disturbed resident's house to collect the agreed amount. if the promise is denied, misfortune happens in the house of the person who made the unfulfilled promise
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