Erigone

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Daughter of Boötes, who avenged his death by hanging herself above the tree where he was killed, and caused the crops to fail. Young girls swing on swings hung from trees at her festival to acknowledge the wrong and abey the curse. Considered a weaver diety, and therefore was at some point conflated with Arachne.

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