Myth query

[mrissa]

Who is the most interestingly unfortunate female figure in any mythology for a big, burly, somewhat hapless hockey player guy (defenseman) to make a pass at?

I don't mean the instantly unfortunate mythological figures, the "you want to date me? gobble chomp you're dead" kind. I mean the "complicates his life in an interesting way" kind.

Carter (yes, for those of you who have been following along, it's one of those stories) has already had run-ins of various sorts with the Queen of Air and Darkness, the Puck, and Baba Yaga. In case that helps.

Comments

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

It's a fox-spirit from Chinese mythology (as opposed to Japanese).

Every fox-spirit story I know that has romance in it is a cautionary tale, because they all end in madness, obsession, or heartbreak with a side of madness and obsession. (Most of the romantic ones I know are about either high born men with estates or poor but up and coming scholars.)

Some of them feature disabled children being cared for by the hujing. Those are the only ones that don't end in heartbreak-- well, except for the disabled child, when the village priest exorcises the hujing.

Others feature magic objects like mirrors, balls, pens.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. Carter is a pretty phlegmatic guy to get the whole "madness and obsession" thing going, but the team is full of people who are not Carter. Some of them are even Russians.

Hmmmm.