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By Carolyne Larrington

King Arthur summons visions of courtly chivalry, towering castles, windswept battlefields, heroic quests, and peculiarly of the monarch who dies yet who sooner or later shall go back. The Arthurian legend lives on as powerfully and enduringly as ever. but significant to those tales are the mysterious, sexually beautiful enchantresses - spellcasters, mistresses of magic who wield awesome impact over Arthur's lifestyles and future. Carolyne Larrington takes her readers on a quest to find why those risky girls proceed to bewitch us. She explores them as they seem in poetry and portray, on the net and television, in excessive and pop culture and indicates that whether or not they be chaste or wicked, necrophiliacs or virgins, they're manifestations of the opposite, scary and interesting in equivalent measure.

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