They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or Erinyes.

Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies ; these include the Greek Erinyes ( Furies ) and Moirai ( Fates ); the Norse Norns ; Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology.

So she sent against her when she was bathing handmaidens dressed up as Furies, who seized Helen and hanged her on a tree, and for this reason the Rhodians have a sanctuary of Helen of the Tree.

Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.

Before her death, Clytemnestra curses Orestes and the Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety, come to torment him.

Sheridan then flies past the destroyer Furies to determine her stand ; she refuses to fight Sheridan and is left unharmed.

In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Terra joined the Amazons ' Furies, and it was through her that New Themyscira was saved from destruction when Aquaman flooded Western Europe.

She is now a brothel madame, with the Furies as her prostitutes, and is an obese black woman.

Suspicious, Granny orders Intergang to take them down, and summons the Female Furies ( Mad Harriet, Stompa and Lashina ) to take executive action when the débutante Supergirl proves too true to her Argosian roots to be defeated that easily.

After Superman and Supergirl stop the comet, Darkseid has the Furies attack Granny for her failure.

However, Barda was eventually able to convince her former teammates to help her, and the four Furies stayed on Earth for quite some time.

On one occasion, during a Furies mission to fetch the disgraced Glorious Godfrey for Darkseid, Lashina was betrayed by her teammate Bernadeth and became stranded on Earth.

* Twilight's Mother-Name unknown, she escaped the Furies centuries ago, and left her daughter to be raised on Earth, where she eventually became a Supergirl villain / supporting character.

In part 2, the Female Furies defeat Supergirl and then Superman, who attempts to save her.

* The Furies appeared in Justice League Unlimited ( this time with Bernadeth ) serving Granny Goodness in her power struggle against Virman Vundabar and his lieutenants Kanto and Mantis.

* Stompa and Lashina appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode " Duel of The Double Crossers " as combatants on Warworld, under the command of Mongal as her " Furies ".

While Granny Goodness retains her backstory, the Furies are reimagined as orphaned girls on Earth mindwiped into becoming Darkseid's warriors.

There is also a woman named Treasure ( a nod to the character Precious, who was a failed potentially recruit to the Furies ) is featured briefly ; Granny trains her as Barda's replacement, but was swiftly killed by the Furies during a test.

: One of the 3 Furies of Ai-Land, she was sent to search out and drag Ai back to her planet.

The rest of the team is taken captive and put into the care of Granny Goodness, where she and her Female Furies subject them to various cruel forms of mental torture.

In the Wonder Girl Mini Series, the then living remaining members of Young Justice, consisting of Wonder Girl, Robin, Empress, and Arrowette ( Secret was absent due to her powers being gone and Superboy and Kid Flash had not yet been resurrected ), along with Hercules, teamed up to defeat Granny Goodness and her Female Furies.

America's NSDF ( National Space Defense Force ) and the Soviet Union's CCA ( Cosmos Colonist Army ), the foes of the Cold War conflict, were forced to work together in order to combat their common enemy, the Furies.

Instead, the helmet mindwipes Godfrey, leaving him nothing more than an empty shell that is sent to Belle Reve sanitarium, where he would later be broken out of by the Female Furies under the order of Darkseid.

The god Apollo takes part in the trial as the advocate for the defendant Orestes, and the Furies as prosecutors for the slain Clytaemnestra.

This usage originated with the shorthand "* book " for this type of supplement to various World of Darkness games, such as Clanbook: Ventrue ( for Vampire: The Masquerade ) or Tribebook: Black Furies ( for Werewolf: The Apocalypse ), and this usage has spread to other games with similar character-type supplements.

The enmity between Dream and Desire continued through the millennia, eventually culminating in Desire raping and fathering a child on Unity Kinkaid, then attempting to have Dream kill Rose Walker, Unity's grandchild, which would have caused the ruthless and relentless Furies to hound Dream until he died for the crime of shedding family blood.

Although commonly referred to as " the curse of the Atreides ", the circle of atrocious events began two generations before Atreus and continued for two generations after him, before being formally absolved by the Furies in court.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual.

Oedipus recognizes this as a sign, for when he received the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, Apollo also revealed to him that at the end of his life he would die at a place sacred to the Furies, and be a blessing for the land in which he is buried.

Following the air strikes on airfields on 15 April 1961, the FAR managed to prepare for armed action at least four T-33s, four Sea Furies and five or six B-26s.

At Hanbury Hall, beneath an imposing view of the Olympian Gods, dominating the ceiling of the main staircase, Thornhill shows Rev Henry Sacheverell, a Tory propagandist put on trial for sedition by the Whig government in 1710, being cast to the Furies.

* A Dozen Furies, the band who won the 2004 Battle for Ozzfest

Unique masks were also created for specific characters and events in a play, such as The Furies in Aeschylus ’ Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides ’ The Bacchae.

* June 15 – The Royal Navy aircraft carriers HMS Eagle, HMS Illustrious, HMS Implacable, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Indomitable, HMS Perseus, and HMS Theseus, the Royal Canadian Navy aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent, and the Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney and 37 squadrons of Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aircraft – including Fireflies, Sea Furies, Seafires, Attackers, Vampires, Skyraiders, Sea Hornets, Meteors, Avengers, Gannets, Wyverns, Sea Venoms, Sea Hawks, and Dragonflies – take part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet for Queen Elizabeth II.

Orion wished to keep Professor Stein safe, and the Furies wished to secure the Matrix for Darkseid.

They are blessed with unnatural strength and longevity and are either trained for their position in the Furies from birth, or are promoted from the ranks of general Apokolips troops.

A second wave of Female Furies, including long-time member Gilotina, Malice Vundabar, Bloody Mary, and Speed Queen, later appeared, causing trouble for Hawk and Dove.

Bringing Superman to Apokolips for Darkseid, the Furies again battle Supergirl, in which they are eventually defeated one-by-one.

Clytemnestra was murdered by Orestes and the Furies torment him for his crime

Barda formed a defense-training program for women called the New Female Furies.

The reality of Orestes entails that of the Furies ; ;

Orestes and Pylades carry out the revenge, and consequently Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes ( Furies, female personifications of vengeance ).

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

He claims that Orestes was led by the Furies to Tauris on the Black Sea, where his sister Iphigeneia was being held.

In most accounts, Orestes leaves Mycenae after he kills his mother and is pursued by the Furies.

Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Sartre incorporates an existentialist theme into the play, having Electra and Orestes engaged in a battle with Zeus and his Furies, who are the gods of Argos and the centerpiece for self-abnegating religious rituals.

Telling the story of the pied piper, Orestes walks off into the light as the Furies chase after him.

Orestes has avenged his father by murdering his mother, and has been pursued ever since by the implacable Furies.

Orestes decides nevertheless that he should die to appease the Furies ; Iphigenia and Pylades should save themselves.

Despite Apollo ’ s earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tormented by Erinyes or Furies to the blood guilt stemming from his matricide.

Then Orestes, still maddened by the Furies, awakes.