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Guardian of the Abyss

A tragedy that inspired the most powerful feminist archetype of the 21st century

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Swarnali Mukherjee
Nov 12, 2022
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“...I grow snakes for hair to hold the venom secreted from this heart loaded too heavily with all they hate about themselves. If they hiss, it's only because like any monster, I have long since lost my own right to scream"

-Jennifer Yeates Camara

Dear Reader, 

Welcome to the Folklore Studios of Berkana city! Here we decipher myths and folklore and question everything we know to be true about our cultural fears and shadows. I have spent the last few weeks traveling and dabbling in history while aligning my vacation spirit with my curiosity for folklore, myths, and history. As the winter is preluding its arrival and long dark hours lurking about, I often find myself immersed in thoughts about the casual horrors integrated into lores, myths, and fairytales. Since the dawn of human civilization, stories have been tools to externalize the inner doings of a mind. In the exhaustive work of narrative genius, we exude our imaginations, fascinations, compulsions, fixations, fears, madness, and abo…

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