I'm writing a story about hags and witches and have been trying RELENTLESSLY to find books or essays or anything that examines the trope of hags in history/mythology/folklore. Also interested in crones and witches, as the title states, but hags are really my central focus.
I went into this expecting a dearth of information and have been really surprised to see a lot of the stuff I've found so far is not really readily available – this seems like a feminist topic a lot of people would have studied already? But a lot of what I've found that goes in depth about hags has been D&D related, and while that's helpful in its own right I'm kind of looking for all different examples of hags to study.
I AM looking specifically for writings that examine hags through a gender study/theory lens but I'm open to anything I can get at this point. Thank you in advance!
by nikkidubs