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.
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