[Ads-l] OT: Sheelanagige was Re: It was not permitted to pass.

[Joel Berson]

The Wikipedia article "Vagina dentata" has a "See also" to its article (wait) "Sheela na gig".  Which then, of course, has a "See also" to "Vagina dentata".  But neither article has any discussion of its relationship to the other.


(Wikipedia discusses "vagina dentata" "In folklore" (Hinduism, Shintoism, Maori), but surely it goes back to Greek mythology?)

Joel

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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] OT: Sheelanagige was Re: It was not permitted to pass.
 
> On May 29, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Toothed?  That's a new on on me.

Just your standard garden variety vagina dentata, no?
> 

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