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The Shape Shifter: Dracula
The shape shifter changes role or personality, often in significant ways, and
is hard to understand. That very changeability is the essence if this
archetype. It is loyal but uncertain. The sincerity of it is questionable. This
keeps the hero off guard.
The Vampire is a mythic creature associated with both blood-sucking and
eroticism. Vampires require blood, which they get by biting the neck of their
victims during a nocturnal visit. The female victim has been portrayed in the
paradoxical circumstances of wanting to repel the Vampire while at the same
time welcoming the erotic nature of the connection. The Vampire returns
every evening to his source of life until there is no more to be had.
This archetype is based off of the energy of mischief and the potential for
change. The trickster may reveal unhappiness through slips of the tongue or
spontaneous and unusual actions. They respond with knavery, stupidity,
gluttony, or guile. The trickster is not always bad. They sometimes create
order out of chaos.
European folk tales may feature tricksters in the form of crows, ravens,
foxes. Any type of clever animal can be portrayed as a trickster.

The Trickster
All archetypes have shadow manifestations as well as positive aspects.
The shadow has power precisely because it remains in the dark; we tend to
deny its presence in us because we consider it unacceptable. Only when we
face and acknowledge the shadows presence we can neutralize its potential
negative impact on us.
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the
sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure
chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of
the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get
worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul
and the two fall in love. The Phantom decides to kidnap her and imprison her
with him in his lair. Raoul is now the only one who can stop him.
The Shadow: The Phantom of the Opera
Fairies are tricky and unpredictable at best and the worst, baleful and
terrifying. Fairies many shapes and sizes are believed to have lived
alongside man since ancient times; sometimes to his benefit but often to his
cost.

The Fairy
The Warrior archetype represents physical strength and the ability to
protect, defend, and fight for one's rights. Whereas the Knight is associated
with protecting Damsels, the Warrior is linked to invincibility and loyalty. To
be unbreakable and to fight to the death is a large part of the Warrior
archetype, which is also associated with the passage from boyhood to
manhood.
The Mongol Warriors were barbarian savages from Europe and Asia. They
road horses and were the greatest commanders in history. They also had the
largest empire that the world has ever known.
The Warrior: Mongol Warrior
They are styled, smell good, look good and are considered ladies men rather
than the bad boy rebel.
The term squire meant a country gentleman. From the 1600s to the
1850s, squire was the main person in charge of a village community. He
owned a lot of land in and around the village. He was a powerful man and
everyone had a reason to be polite to the squire.
The Gentleman: Sir Thomas Sidley
This archetype is primarily associated with chivalry, courtly romance,
protector, and going to battle only for honorable causes. They serve their
king or Lord, has spiritual overtones, service and devotion.
The Black Knight uses his skills, influence, and power for his own good
and not always to benefit others. The Black Knight thinks nothing of loyalty,
respect, or honor. There are all types of knights, not just the noble ones.
The Knight: The Black Knight
The Damsel-in-Distress is described as a beautiful, vulnerable, and in need of
rescue, specifically by a knight, and once rescued, she is taken care of in
lavish style.
A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl, Juliet begins the play as a nave child who
has thought little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon
falling in love with Romeo, the son of her familys great enemy. Because she
is a girl in an aristocratic family, she has none of the freedom Romeo has to
roam around the city. Nevertheless, she shows amazing courage in trusting
her entire life and future to Romeo, even refusing to believe the worst
reports about him.
The Damsel-in-Distress: Juliet
The seasons are the same in Russia and Europe as they are in America. They
have a spring, summer , fall and a winter.
The Seasons
A quest is a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and (frequently)
as a symbol.
The quest of Troy was when they decided to conquer it but yet they burnt it
down to the ground. The myth is that they entered the city of Troys through
a big wooden horse. As they entered they all jumped out the huge wooden
horse.
The Quest: Quest of Troy
A dwarf is a being that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously
associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting. They are often
described as short and ugly.
The Dwarf: Austri and Vestri
The angel archetype has a light and shadow attribute. Their light energy is
pure, light, and loving. They are here to nurture you physically, embracing
your sensitive heart and soul emotionally, and giving you a voice for
knowledge, mentally. They are very powerful because they speak to your
body and mind in the form of dreams, visions, stories, art, music, metaphors,
and myths.
Saint Michael:
Who is like to God, war cry of the good angels in the battle fought in
heaven against Satan and his followers. The Holy sculpture describes St.
Michael as one of the chief princes, known as the head angel (the one next
to God).
The Angel: St. Michael
The word monster is derived from a Latin word monstrum, which means a
sign of the future events. Nightmare creatures that stand in the way of a
heros progress or that
plague societies

Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that
pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. The ghost are what
fulfill the monster archetype


The Monster: The Ghost
Encompasses the personal mother, grandmother, step-mother, mother-in-
law, nurses, surrogate mother, and governess. Also includes the goddess.
The Mother archetype has both positive and negative representations also
known as the loving and terrible mother. They are associated with things
and places standing for fertility and fruitfulness. Has three forms: the good,
the terrible and the good/bad mother.
The stepmother in Cinderella fits the mother archetype. She would be the
good/bad form because even though she was mean and showed so much
hatred for Cinderella she was just the completely opposite to her biological
daughters.


The Mother: aka earth mother, old hag, mother
goddess, stepmother, fertility goddess

a scholar and ritualist who might command modest psychic (at least in the
terms of most games and how people currently think of psychics), talents
or who might have gained minor inherent abilities through some sort of
pact, but whos primary powers were derived from weird talismans,
dangerous summoning, and complex ceremonial magic. Such Wizards
tended to be reasonably wise and rather cautious noncombatants. They
also got a reputation for being potentially evil since, in most peoples minds,
dabbling in the unknown was insanely reckless at best.


The Wizard
general they represent negative forces, each symbol possesses a positive
side, as well. The negative side represents the origin of the disease, while the
positive side points to its cure.
The Wolf
"wolf" (ze'ev) of the Bible is personified as the name of the second of the two
ministers of Midian killed in the war that Gideon fought against Midian, as
recorded in the book of Judges. The name of the first minister was "raven"
(orev). As stated of the wolf, the raven also symbolizes strong sexual
impulses.

The Wolf
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