Veelas/The Rebellious Woman/Junguean Psychology

[Paula Gaon]

No: HPFGUIDX 80852

 
CatLady wrote: "They (Vilas) appear as groups of beautiful young 
women, who dance in thewoods and try to lure any man who walks alone 
in the woods to dancewith them, and then dance him to death or 
something. They take the form of swans in order to fly, and upon 
arrival at their dancing-place, they return to human form by taking 
off their swan skins. Ifa man steals a vila's swan skin, she has to 
marry him and keep his house and bear his children, but if she ever 
gets a chance, she willsteal back her swan skin and escape."
 
 
 
This is truly a universal and timeless theme!  There is even such a hint 
in the Bible, chapters 1 and 2, Book of Genesis.  If one reads 
carefully (especially in the original Hebrew), there are 2 different 
stories of the creation of mankind.  Chapter 1 mentions the creation 
of male and female and chapter 2 goes on to give all the details.  
Commentators long ago asked what happened to the woman in chapter 1.  
Some theorized that she was rebellious, refusing to help Adam fulfill
the commandment to be fruitful and multiply, a man's most basic 
instinct.  Hence, she was destroyed.  This first woman 
is traditionally called Lilith, from the Hebrew word for "night".  And 
by the way, Eve, (Hava, in Hebrew) from the Hebrew word for life.
 
 
Carl Jung wrote about a man's essential fear of woman. In summary, he 
held that woman holds such an incredible power over man because 
without her he cannot carry out his most basic instinct--so he both 
loves and fears her. He therefore held that the creation of witches 
and all kinds of horrible female creatures in all mythologies is the 
male's projection of his own fear onto the female. Of course, we see 
this in Harry Potter (GoF-don't have the book in front of me) when JKR 
tells us something to the effect that when Harry watched the Veelas, 
he felt that everything would always be OK.  But later on, the Veelas 
are perceived as horrible, ugly, creatures when they 
became rebellious. So, the short of it all.  Some things never 
change...
 
Paula "Griff" Gaon



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