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Mother lode
Thanks for the review, Mr. Kamiya. I really enjoyed the literary history woven into a movie review. I especially appreciated your pointing out that the female seductive witch figure was a late medieval Christian invention, and not at all characteristic of mythological female entities in all times and places--I know this from my own literary studies to be accurate.
And how the more annoying that this film has turned Grendel's mother into a stereotypical seductress, instead of the truly weird, deeply mysterious entity she is in the original story. Gaiman is normally more mythologically subtle than that. Sigh.