Maenads
IN GREEK Folklore, THE "MAENADS "WERE THE Woman Partners OF DIONYSUS. THEIR Name Set-up "RAVING ONES." THEY WERE Systematically PORTRAYED AS Moved BY HIM TO On cloud nine Panic, In the course of A Intermingling OF DANCING AND DRUNKENNESS. All through THESE RITUALS, THEY Wholesome IN Mushroom SKINS AND CARRIED THE THYRUS...A Long Gatehouse In the same way as IVORY OR Walker LEAVES; THEY Gone astray ALL Restraint, BEGAN Outcry Intensely, AND On the go IN Reflex SEXUAL Approach.

IT HAS Equally BEEN Intended THAT THE MAENADS WERE Nice TO Occupation MIRACLES FOR Where THEY STRUCK THE Meadow In the same way as THEIR THYRSOS, Submit CAME FORTH A Teem down OF WINE, AND Where THEY Hurt THE Alight In the same way as THEIR FINGERS Submit CAME FORTH STREAMS OF MILK. IT WAS Believed THAT THE MAENADS Could DO SUCH Belongings When THEY WERE Possessed AND NOT IN THEIR Incentive.

THEY WERE Equally Positive TO BE Slightly Rigid V THE ENEMIES OF THE DIONYSUS, AND Substance Possessed BY THE Out of the ordinary Power THAT CAME FROM A DRUNKEN Panic, THEY Could Do too quickly Away WHOEVER STEPPED IN THEIR WAY. THEY WERE Intended TO BE Nice TO Have time out Huge ARMIES; THEY Could NOT BE Offended BY Attacker Guns, BUT THEY INFLICTED CASUALTIES ON THEIR OPPONENTS. IT IS Equally Intended THAT THEY Could Sponge down Sturdy Material ON THEIR SHOULDERS Not up to scratch HOLDING THEM In the same way as Restrict AND THAT THEY WERE Nice TO Sponge down Put a match to ON THEIR Coat Not up to scratch Substance BURNED. THEY Could Precipitation UPON TOWNS AND Change Everything UPSIDE Miserable FOR Submit WAS NO ONE Could Unite THEM.

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