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common scold: Encyclopedia II - Termagant - Origin of the concept

Through ignorance or wilful disregard of Muslim monotheism for the sake of propaganda, European literature from the Middle Ages often referred to Muslims as "pagans", or by synonymous expressions such as the paynim foe. These false and deliberately offensive depictions represent Muslims worshipping the Prophet Muhammad as a god, and depict them worshipping various deities in the form of idols, from Apollo to Lucifer, b ...

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common scold: Encyclopedia II - Termagant - Termagant as a shrewish woman

By Shakespeare's day the term had come to refer to a bullying person. Henry IV contains a reference to "that hot termagant Scot". "Herod" was also a character from mediaeval drama that was famous for ranting, hence the disparaging referral to him and to Termagant in Hamlet's dramatic directions to the Player-King. Mainly because of Termagent's depiction in long gowns, English audiences got the mistaken notion that the character was female, or at least that he resembled a mannish woman. As a result, the name termagant came increasingly to be applied to a shrewish woman who was a common scold, and thus th ...

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Termagant, Termagant - Origin of the concept, Termagant - Termagant in literature, Termagant - Termagant as a shrewish woman, Termagant - Reference

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common scold: Encyclopedia II - Termagant - Termagant in literature

Whatever its origins, Termagant became established in the West as the name of the principal Muslim god, being regularly mentioned in metrical romances and chansons de geste. In the English romance Syr Guy, a Sultan swears an oath: So helpe me, Mahoune, of might, And Termagaunt, my God so bright. In the Chanson de Roland, the Muslims, having lost the battle of Roncesvalles, desecrate their "pagan idols": They strip the fire-red gem off Termagant A ...

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Termagant, Termagant - Origin of the concept, Termagant - Termagant in literature, Termagant - Termagant as a shrewish woman, Termagant - Reference

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