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Listen to Hermits

Hermits appear in many myths. Two show up in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Generally, the mythological hermits are good guys, albeit odd. One has to be careful, however – sometimes evil beings disguise themselves as hermits. One of Spenser’s hermits is wise; the other evil disguised as good. And, whether benevolent or malevolent, hermits in mythol