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alex106 · 2 months

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I hate them

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kameasorrells · 8 months

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A quick study of Deer lady from Reservation dogs 🧡🧡🧡

#comics #sketch #digital art #fanart #reservation dogs #rez dogs #deer lady #deer woman #indigenous #folklore #every child matters #orange

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dreamsoffaerie · 6 months

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women of myth & folklore [3/?] ↣ deer woman, indigenous american protector of women

you with the dark curls, you with the watercolor eyes, you who bears all her teeth when she smiles...

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callunavulgaris · 2 years

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beansbabygirl · 4 months

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legend-collection · 4 months

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Deer Woman

Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in Native American mythology whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. Generally, however, to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous and known to lure these men to their deaths. She appears as either a beautiful young woman with deer feet or as a deer.

Deer Woman stories are found in multiple Indigenous American cultures, often told to young children or by young adults and preteens in the communities of the Lakota people (Oceti Sakowin), Ojibwe, Ponca, Omaha, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Otoe, Osage, Pawnee, and the Haudenosaunee, and those are only the ones that have documented Deer Woman sightings.

Deer Woman is one of the Little People. Though they can be malevolent towards humans, their role in Indigenous culture is to uphold traditional society by keeping humans in line by discouraging harmful actions that have the potential to destroy the community. The legend of Deer Woman in particular pushes them away from actions like promiscuity and infidelity. The Little People also hold otherworldly knowledge that they can pass onto humans which is then transmitted through the generations; however, this power must be obtained, respected, and maintained in traditional, healthy ways. As an example of what happens when these spiritual rules are broken, the people who incur the wrath of Deer Woman and her uncle, Thunder, soon die.

Some stories describe the sighting of Deer Woman as a sign of personal transformation or as a warning. Deer Woman is said to be fond of dancing and will sometimes join a communal dance unnoticed, leaving only when the drum beating ceases.

Among Lakota people, Deer Woman is called Anukite. The daughter of the first man and first woman was a beautiful young woman named Ite (Face). Tate (Wind) fell in love with her. They married and had quadruplets, who were the Four Winds. Tate wished to become a god and enlisted the aid of Inktomi, the trickster spider, who caused the Sun to fall in love with Ite. At a celebration, Ite sat in the place of the Moon, the Sun's wife. To punish her disrespect, the Sky cast Ite down from heaven to the earth. Half of her face became ugly and her name became Anukite (Double Face Woman) or Winyan Numpa (Double Woman).

Anukite appears to men in dreams or visions, either as a single deer or two deer women: a white-tailed deer and a black-tailed deer. Her two different sides symbolize appropriate and inappropriate sexual relations. Men that have sex with her are believed to go insane while women that dream of her will have strong powers or sexual attraction or can gain artistic powers if they make a wise choice in the near future.

Deer Woman and the other Little People share similarities with some European supernatural beings such as the Gaelic Aos Sí and Tuatha Dé Danann, the Germanic elves, and the Slavic víle and rusalki in that they hold otherworldly knowledge that they can pass onto humans if they are treated with respect and said human(s) deemed worthy. Special care is also taken not to anger them and avoid breaking their rules as their vengeance is unpleasant and often deadly.

La Patasola, literally "single footed", is a somewhat similar figure from the Antioquia region of Colombia in that she brings harm to men who harm what she cares about, in this case the forest. She is a shapeshifter who takes the form of a beautiful woman to lure men with her cries of fear. When the men, who are often causing harm in one way or another to the rain forest, come to her, she drops her beautiful mask and slaughters them in an effort to protect the forest.

#deer woman #north america #native american #Oceti Sakowin #Ojibwe #Ponca #Omaha #Cherokee #Muscogee #Choctaw #Seminole #Otoe #Osage #Pawnee #Haudenosaunee

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fiantacleasai · 4 months

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Sorry if this is a hot button topic, but also… I don’t really care. I’m tired of seeing her appear in my tags that have nothing to do with her. Believe what you want, I won’t stop you. Just don’t call her something that she isn’t.

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princessnijireiki · 2 years

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Kaniehtiio Horn for The Cherry Picks • Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Screen, photographed by Daniel Esteban, makeup by Ashley Diabo, styled by Michelle Paluzzi

#kaniehtiio horn #tiio horn #rutherford falls #feather day #shoresy #letterkenny #tanis #auntie tanis #reservation dogs #deer woman #indigenous #first nations #native american

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the-sunflower-club · 8 months

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Who is Espere, the Lady of the Forest? Learn more in this video and on our Indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/little-wolf-the-2d-animated-short-film?fbclid=PAAaZ9x-qhGaOqwihgUqFcEZE6XC9jh84UPZFu7dCu8FGLU4H1vTnFr568i28_aem_AaZRhV1pnLqSMbATVi7Uzajbx8flLYVU8ARZP5ACNr-KOiwsJDph12nQRvbHdHLcxkU#/

#indie animation #animation #indie art #animation studio #animated film #short film #support indie animation #support indies #deer #deer girl #deer woman #oc #oc character

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gsstories · 2 months

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I have just found out about Deer Women. Imma be hyperfixating over them for a while, I even have an AU where one of my characters be one

#au #deer woman #native spirit #native american mythology #native women

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alex106 · 2 months

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I was kinda ashamed to show this but I have nothing to lose

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variantofnick · 1 year

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Roe is a established member of the Mystic freehold in my Changeling: The Lost, 1998 game. She's a beast kith, and member of the winter court.

#changeling #changeling the lost #fae #lost #the lost #changeling art #digitalart #monster #ctl #Beast #deer woman #Winter court

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0zzi-b2ar · 1 year

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DEER LADY

This was an art project for my sculpture class and I'm honestly proud of how it turned out

Extras below:

#ozzi's art #ozzi speaks #deer lady #deer woman #sculpture #paper mache #cardboard #animal mask #original cosplay #deer woman cosplay #cosplay

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callunavulgaris · 1 year

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Messing around with color on this ethereal deer lady drawing!

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godsofghostriver · 8 months

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#southwestern gothic #spooky season #dark nature #supernatural #deer woman

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thegenxorcist · 11 months

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Deer People

It seems there are two basic stories about Deer People, one concerning a Deer Man and the other a Deer Woman.

In an old Cherokee legend, people and animals could communicate long ago. Things went well as long as the people only harvested the animals they needed for food, clothing, and shelter. As time went on, the people got a bit greedy, or some might say, bloodthirsty...

Deer Men and Women: Real or the Stuff of Legend?

#Deer People #Deer Woman #Deer Man

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