2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
The Black Widow, her sinister image has been on the pages of many works for more than one hundred years. For the first time its appearance is noted in medieval European legends. With slight variations, the plot in them is the same - the insidious and predatory beauty knows how to make an indelible impression on men. They come across entirely influential and we althy. Their fate is sad: after marrying an insidious seductress, they do not live long. They suddenly die from incomprehensible diseases, a hint of which they had not recently had. And the black widow, having inherited a fortune, moves on through life in search of new prey and new adventures.
Can there be smoke without fire?
Maybe the black widow is nothing more than an impressive poetic image and an abstract symbol of evil? Or do similar ladies meet here and there? Of course, there were a great many real historical prototypes of the insidious poisoner in history. Their biographies constantly appear on the pages of the "yellow press" and other tabloid fiction. Most often, the main characters of these novels know how to handle natural substances at the level of graduates of the Hogwarts school. And the motives of their actions are banal and uncomplicated: send the husband to the grave and get his fortune.
Many thus recoup for all the evil that they had to endure on the threshold of youth. But in the classical works of this genre, everything is far from being so primitive. In them, as a rule, a black widow is a woman with a special gift. It would be more accurate to call it a curse, which most often she herself is unaware of and opens gradually, as the plot develops. The main property of this curse is that it condemns to death all those who love it. And the main character, the black widow, faces a very difficult moral choice: how to continue to live and what to do with her supernatural gift. Of course, in the Middle Ages, the entire sacred Inquisition bravely fought against such ladies with all the arsenal of means and tools at its disposal. Needless to say, what a luxurious material this is for screenwriters of all formats? In cinema, this image has been exploited throughout the history of its existence. This commercially successful symbol brings a good income to everyone, from creators to the leading lady.
From legend to reality
As long as the black widow is a book or a TV series, then, as they say, to hell with it … But we increasingly see this name in TV news reports about committed terrorist acts by the method of self-detonation. Those who do this call themselves this phrase. Most often, these are real widows of extremists who died in the war. The terrorist underground assigns them suchname, and "black widows" wrapped in shahid belts are sent to the Moscow metro.
It will be interesting to note that, in addition to terrorists, this name - "black widow" - denotes a particularly poisonous variety of spiders, widespread in many countries of the world. There are over thirty varieties. And they are very dangerous.
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