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"The mighty Morgan the Fay, who lives on my manor,
Whose mastery of magic is manipulated with craft,
Learned to a large degree from the lore of great Merlin--
For indeed she had a long and lasting love
With that crafty wizard, who is known to your country's knights
As one of fame;
Therefore Morgan the goddess
Rightly is her name,
Nobody's so wild against her
That she can't make him tame--"
--excerpt from "Gawain and the Green Knight"; the speaker is the knight Bertilak de Hautdesert,
who had been disguised as the monstrous Green Knight by Morgan's arts.
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Morgan's outfit comes in four separate, and removable parts: bodice, underskirt, overskirt and sleeves. The bodice and
full underskirt (called a kirtle) are made of the silver-gray, satiny material, which has a subtle sheen to it. The
bodice has a popular rennaissance style: a squared, low-cut neckline, nipped-in waist, and peplum which flares over the hips;
it is a double-thickness--lined with the same fabric , and embellished with a black and silver diamond-shaped decorative piece
studded with black beads. The bodice closes in back with black ribbon, cross-gartered between pearl buttons. The bodice has
double straps of pearls and the hem of the skirt is also trimmed with pearls--a favorite jewel of the Middle ages and Renaissance,
believed to have healing and protective powers.

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The overskirt is of a sheer, black netting, extremely full and forming a slight train in back; it is split up the middle
to show off more of the underskirt and trimmed in intricately-interwoven black braid. The overskirt ties at the waist under
the peplum with doubled black ribbon.
The separate sleeves are also of the black netting; they attach to the arm by cross-gartering with black ribbon. The sleeves
are decorated with silver medallions at the top and silver, filigreed balls at the tips; the ribbons of the sleeves and bodice
are also trimmed with the silver balls. Sleeves in this period were often detachable: as a practical issue it was easiest
to attach sleeves by tying them rather than sewing them to the bodice and/or cross-gartering them down the arm for a
better fit. As a matter of fashion and courtly culture detachable over-sleeves were often used as the ladies token,
to be given to her chosen knight to carry into the tournament.
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Morgan's jewelry includes pearl earrings, a pearl circlet or crown highlighted with a black, tiger-eyed, semi-precious
stone, and attached at the back by a silver wire clasp shaped into opposing whorls. She has a large filigreed silver "ring"
and the spectacular silver necklace which wraps multiple times around her slender throat and dangles a pendant of perfectly
round crystal held in a silver dragon's claw.
The doll (originally the Addam's Family's Morticia) has received a sealed, partial repaint with clear grey eyes, silvery-blue
eye shadow highlighted with a sheer, pearly pink. Her hip-length raven hair, with red-brown highlights, lies in long, loose
ringlets, while the front is twisted back and tucked over and under the pearl circlet.
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