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Hag knots is the term given in the New Forest to tangles in the manes of wild ponies, and so named from the ancient belief that they were used as stirrups by witches (hags).
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Aaron's Rod is the only British species of the plant Golden-rod (Hag Taper). It is found in woods and thickets.
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Hag is the popular name of fish of the genus Myxine. They are of worm-like form and have no eyes or scales. The mouth is formed for suction and is without lips and is furnished with barbells. The hag has horny teeth which it uses to eat into the interior of other fish.
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Hag is an old English term for a witch or sorceress. The term has evolved over the years to imply an old, ugly, inelegant woman, but when encountered in the works of Shakespeare it refers to a witch or sorceress.
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In Greek mythology, Alphito was a white goddess of barley flour, destiny and the moon. The hag of the mill and the lady of the nine heights.
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In Norse mythology, Angrbotha is the prophetic death goddess. The iron wood hag and Ogress of Giantland. A worker of calamity.
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In Norse mythology, Krake was a shape-shifter, a witch, who appeared at times as a beautiful virgin, at others a hag, a monster or a crow. The daughter of the Valkyrie Brunnhilde, Krake married the Danish king Ragnar Lodbrook and bore the son Sigurd.
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Hough-on-the-Hill (recorded in the Domesday Book as Hag) is a village in Lincolnshire, England.
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Fag-hag is slang for a woman who likes and prefers the company of Gay men (fags) over heterosexuals.
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Old bag is slang for an elderly woman.
Old bag is London Cockney rhyming slang for an old or infected prostitute (hag).
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