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Anonymous Tue Apr 12 21:01:32 2016 No.15069485 [View]
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Do you think we will see a Sheela na gig?
They are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva

Alternative spellings of "Sheela" may sometimes be encountered; they include Sheila, Síle and Síla. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is derived from Irish, Síle na gcíoch, meaning "Julia of the breasts"

Jørgen Andersen writes that the name is an Irish phrase, originally either Sighle na gCíoch, meaning "the old hag of the breasts"

They are said to ward off death and evil
It is commonly said that their purpose was to keep evil spirits away

Andersen reproduces an 18th-century illustration by Charles Eisen from La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes (1674) showing a demon being repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt to display her genitals. See pic

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