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Halloween Series: Witches in Fiction ✨

Ursula is the main antagonist of Disney’s The Little Mermaid and belongs to a race of creatures known as Cecaelia (half-woman, half-octopus). She states that she once lived in the royal palace of King Triton, the king of the underwater city of Atlantica. Ursula boasts that her previous life was lavish and included such spoils as ‘fantastical feasts.’ Power-hungry and devilish, even in the past, Ursula garnered a disreputable reputation amongst underwater dwellers. She was widely known as the ‘Sea Witch,’ an alias she accepted in stride. Ursula’s greed and use of dark magic led to her banishment. By orders of the King, she was exiled from Atlantica and made her home in the remains of a leviathan lined with a garden of writhing polyps. These polyps were merfolk who had previously gone to Ursula for help but found themselves unable to fulfill their side of the bargain, leading Ursula to claim them as her own and adding them to her collection. From her secluded lair, she awaits the chance to get her revenge on Triton and become ‘Queen of Atlantica’ by stealing the king’s trident, an extremely powerful weapon that grants its user control over the seas and its foils. 

(Georges Hobeika Fall 2018 Haute Couture Collection)

Favourite Designs: Georges Hobeika ‘MOD’ Fall 2021 Haute Couture Collection

Eos(Éōs meaning “dawn”) was a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the Oceanus in Greek mythology. She had a brother and a sister, Helios (God of the Sun), and Selene (Goddess of the Moon) and was almost always described with rosy fingers as she opened the gates of heaven for the sun to rise. In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe was embroidered or woven with flowers rosy-fingered and with golden arms, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

(Georges Hobeika Fall 2016 Haute Couture Collection)

Hemera (Ἡμερα) was the goddess of the day and daughter of Nyx(goddess of the night)andErebos(god of darkness) in Greek mythology. At the conclusion of everyday Nyx and Erebus would emerge from Tartarus and into the ‘Garden of the Hesperides’whereAtlas would hold up the sky. Hand in hand they would stand at the edge of the mountain and pull veils of darkness across the sky. They’d then cover up the sun and send dreams to sleeping mortals. When they finished they would pass by their daughter and her lover Aether(god of light) on the way back to Tartarus. Together the two gods would then bring daytime back to the world. Hemera would chase the darkness from the sky as Aether cast light down on to earth. Later on in a few Greek myths she gets replaced by Eos(goddess of the dawn).

(Georges Hobeika Spring 2018 Haute Couture Collection)