[ **up: [[Deities]] | [[Spinning and weaving]]** ] --- # Spinning and weaving deities Many European goddesses were depicted as spinners.[^1] [[Herbalism|Herbs]] were kept as amulets in women’s threadboxes.[^2] The spinning goddess of [[destiny]] may have distant [[Indo-European]] roots.[^3] [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] weavers may have invoked [[Holle]].[^4] [^1]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 33. [^2]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 64. [^3]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 11. [^4]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 35.