Kidd, Sue Monk: *1948
The Secret Life of Bees, 2002 - Background
- Jim Crow
- Bees
- Hive bodies located above the brood chamber are called supers, simply because of their location above the brood nest.
- Information about Hives from PBS
- Beekeeping Equipment
- Black Madonna
Black Madonna, Kloster Einsiedeln, Switzerland- History of The Black Madonna
- Origin, History, Controversy: "In the early days of the 'comparative religions' discipline, authors casually equated the 'Black Virgins' venerated by Catholics with pagan goddess images of similar appearance, providing some with a polemic argument against the Catholic Church." University of Dayton
- Sue Monk Kidd says,"The Black Madonnas are among the oldest Madonna images in the world, and their blackness is purportedly not related to race or ethnic origins, but has to do with obscure symbolic meanings and connections to earlier goddesses."
from her Homepage
- Mental Illness