As punishment for deceiving Lucina, Galanthis was transformed into a weasel ; she continued to live with Alcmene.

Like Galanthis, Historis announced that Alcmene had delivered her child ; having been deceived, the witches went away, allowing Alcmene to give birth.

She would have permanently delayed Heracles ' birth had she not been fooled by Galanthis, Alcmene's servant, who lied to Ilithyia, saying that Alcmene had already delivered the baby.

In the version followed by Ovid in Metamorphoses, Galanthis was the red-gold haired servant of Alcmene, who assisted her during the birth of Heracles.

She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby.

In Greek mythology, Galanthis or Galinthias was the woman who interrupted with Hera's plan to hinder the birth of Heracles in favor of Eurystheus, and was changed into a weasel as punishment for being so insolent as to deceive the goddesses of birth that were acting on Hera's behalf.

Galanthis laughed and ridiculed Lucina, and as a punishment was turned into a weasel.

Galanthis noticed Lucina and deduced Hera's plans.

Hera punished Galanthis by turning her into an animal.

* Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, and father of Galanthis.

The myth of Galanthis is also briefly mentioned by Pausanias: he recounts the Theban version of the story, which referred to the heroine as Historis, called her a daughter of Teiresias, and made no mention of her transformation.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

The people who believe and retell the legend have apparently never troubled to read the trial testimony and do not know that the maid changed her testimony on several key points, always to the detriment of Lizzie.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

She has a maid called Maria who prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer, but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.

Likewise, it is Miss Marple herself who poses as a maid to find out the facts of the case, not a young friend of hers who has made a business of it.

The newly arrived family soon hired Louise Delfault, a maid who eventually became an instrumental member of the family.

The narrator turns prophetic, referring to a vision of an unidentified " Abyssinian maid " who sings of " Mount Abora ".

The narrator introduces a character he once dreamed about, an Abyssinian maid who sings of another land.

The connection between Lewti and the Abyssinian maid makes it possible that the maid was intended as a disguised version of Mary Evans, who appears as a love interest since Coleridge's 1794 poem The Sigh.

The Abyssinian maid is derived from many figures in Coleridge's life, including women who Coleridge admired in some way: Charlotte Brent, Catherine Clarkson, Mary Morgan, and Dorothy Wordsworth.

Desdemona laments her suffering, remembering the fate of her mother's maid, who was forsaken by her lover.

One humorous story relates that one of his paintings was rejected and instead of keeping it, he gave the canvas to a maid who used it as her table cover.

Joan Collins wrote that when she rejected his on-set advances, he embarked on a series of liaisons with other women including an elderly black maid who, according to Collins, was " almost toothless ".

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

Rabanus states that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by " the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus ( who was raised from the dead ), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella ( the maid of the Bethany sisters ), St. Maxium or Maximin, St.

With her till the end was her personal maid, Anna Roos, who had arrived with her from Denmark in 1590.

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

Monogamy was the rule, and a childless wife might give her husband a maid to bear him children, who were then reckoned hers.

For years, vague prophecies had been circulating in France concerning an armed maid who would rescue France.

Naughty Marietta is a 1935 film based on the operetta Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert: Jeanette MacDonald stars as a vivacious Princess who trades places with her maid Marietta in order to avoid an arranged marriage.

Mobutu's mother Marie Madeleine Yemo, was a hotel maid who fled to Lisala to escape the harem of a local village chief.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

The maid was very black and very energetic, trim in a yellow pique uniform.

Mrs. Andrus was talking to the maid, arranging for her to come in every day, instead of the four days she now worked.

At the home of a gourmet the new maid was instructed in the fine points of serving.

`` Oh, she was just the maid there '', he replied, waving a hand to indicate how completely unimportant she was.

Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..

Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.

Mrs. Fenwick Eustis, whose daughter was also a maid to the queen, wore an ashes of roses slipper satin gown.

Dürer journeyed with his wife and her maid via the Rhine to Cologne and then to Antwerp, where he was well received and produced numerous drawings in silverpoint, chalk and charcoal.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Frigg then sent her maid Fulla to Geirröth, advising him that a magician would soon enter his court to bewitch him, and saying that he could be recognised by the fact that no dog was fierce enough to leap up at him.

In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.

When his mother returned to work as a lady's maid ( at Uppark, a country house in Sussex ), one of the conditions of work was that she would not be permitted to have living space for her husband and children.

" When Taji kills the old priest holding Yillah captive, he states " remorse smote me hard ; and like lightning I asked myself whether the death deed I had done was sprung of virtuous motive, the rescuing of a captive from thrall, or whether beneath the pretense I had engaged in this fatal affray for some other selfish purpose, the companionship of a beautiful maid.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

: It was an Abyssinian maid,