History Literature / LevanaAndOurLadiesOfSorrow

CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler: The ending implies that the hardships caused by the three sisters are in fact designed to temper the soul in preparation for the afterlife.]]

* ''Mother of Darkness'', a 1977 novel by Creator/FritzLeiber, which features quotes from De Quincey's poem [[spoiler:and not-so-subtly implies that Mater Tenebrarum is the antagonist.]]

* [[http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/products/sorrows.shtml Our Ladies of Sorrow]], an RPG by Miskatonic University Press, in which you play as an investigator working to solve the mystery of a haunted building. The game book even includes an abridged version of De Quincey's poem.* In ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' the Three Mothers are rumored to have once inhabited (and possibly still inhabit) the island on which the titular hotel is located.

* [[http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/products/sorrows.shtml Our Ladies of Sorrow]], an RPG by Miskatonic University Press, in which you play as an investigator working to solve the mystery of a haunted building. The game book even includes an abridged version of De Quincey's poem.
* ''Lachrymae: On the Trail of the Three Mothers'', an online account by film director Richard Stanley, chronicling a series of strange events loosely related to De Quincey's poem [[http://www.shadowtheatre13.com/lachrymae.html]].
* In ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' the Three Mothers are rumored to have once inhabited (and possibly still inhabit) the island on which the titular hotel is located.

The "Three Mothers", as the Sorrows are known, have become popular enough to appear in various works:

[[http://www.bartleby.com/27/22.html A prose poem]] by writer (and opium addict) Creator/ThomasDeQuincey (1785-1859). Included in the collection ''Suspiria De Profundis'' (itself a sequel to the more widely known ''Literature/ConfessionsOfAnEnglishOpiunEater''), this essay is considered the supreme example of what De Quincey called "impassioned prose".

* 2018's upcoming independent horror film ''The Night Sitter'' involves The Three Mothers being accidentally invoked by the son of a wealthy occult collector, in a tribute to the Argento Trilogy.

[[http://www.bartleby.com/27/22.html A prose poem]] by writer (and opium addict) ThomasDeQuincey (1785-1859). Included in the collection ''Suspiria De Profundis'' (itself a sequel to the more widely known ''Literature/ConfessionsOfAnEnglishOpiunEater''), this essay is considered the supreme example of what De Quincey called "impassioned prose".

[[http://www.bartleby.com/27/22.html A prose poem]] by writer (and opium addict) Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). Included in the collection ''Suspiria De Profundis'' (itself a sequel to the more widely known ''Confessions of an English Opium Eater''), this essay is considered the supreme example of what De Quincey called "impassioned prose".

* The most trumphant example would be Creator/DarioArgento's "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which recast the Sorrows as {{wicked witch}}es. The trilogy is comprised of ''Film/Suspiria1977'', ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' and ''Film/MotherOfTears''.

* Luca Guadagnino's ''Film/Suspiria2018 remake'' also delves into the lore of the Three Mothers, with Mater Suspiriorum figuring much more into the plot than its predecessor.

[[http://io9.com/suspiria-tv-series-in-the-works-bryan-fuller-already-w-1696599353 A TV Series, based around both the Argento trilogy and on Suspiria De Profundis, with De Quincey as the main character, is currently in the works.]]

* The most trumphant example would be Creator/DarioArgento's "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which recast the Sorrows as {{wicked witch}}es. The trilogy is comprised of ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' and ''Film/MotherOfTears''.

* ''Il Gatto Nero'' (The Black Cat), an inferior attempt by Luigi Cozzi to make the third film in Argento's trilogy, which falsely casts Levana as the antagonist witch.

* RealitySubtext: Each of the sorrows roughly corresponds to an aspect of De Quincey's life (the death of his children, poverty, drug addiction, etc.).

* In ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' the Three Mothers are rumored to have once inhabited (and possibly still inhabit)the island on which the titular hotel is located.

* In ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel''the Three Mothers are rumored to have once inhabited (and possibly still inhabit)the island on which the titular hotel is located.

* ConspiracyTheory: Richard Stanley somehow manages to relate the Three Mothers to a real life occult conspiracy involving the [[ConspiracyKitchenSink holy grail, a tarantula cult and the Black Madonna]] (it makes more sense in context).

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* The fifth movement of HectorBerlioz's ''Symphonie Fantastique'', ''Songe d’une Nuit du Sabbat'' (Dreams of a Witches Sabbath) was reportedly based on De Quincey's poem.

* ''Mother of Darkness'', a 1977 novel by Creator/FritzLeiber, which features quotes from De Quincey's poem [[spoiler: and not-so-subtley implies that Mater Tenebrarum is the antagonist.]]

* [[http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/products/sorrows.shtml Our Ladies of Sorrow]], an RPG by Miskatonic University Press, in which you play as an investigator working to solve the mystery of a haunted building. The game book even includes an abriged version of De Quincey's poem.

* ''Il Gato Nero'' (The Black Cat), an inferior attempt by Luigi Cozzi to make the third film in Argento's trilogy, which falsely casts Levana as the antagonist witch.

* The most trumphant example would be Creator/DarioArgento's "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which recast the Sorrows as {{wicked witch}}es. The trilogy is comprised of ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'', ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' and ''MotherOfTears''.

* The most trumphant example would be Creator/DarioArgento's "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which recast the Sorrows as {{wicked witch}}es. The trilogy is comprised of ''{{Suspiria}}'', ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' and ''MotherOfTears''.

* The most trumphant example would be DarioArgento's "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which recast the Sorrows as {{wicked witch}}es. The trilogy is comprised of ''{{Suspiria}}'', ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' and ''MotherOfTears''.

De Quincey begins by describing the role of Levana, goddess of newborn infants, in the Roman religion, followed by conjectures on grief and the development of children. He then envisions a triumvirate of women, the Sorrows, who curse humanity with insanity, grief and despair.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The Three Mothers, who personify grief (''"She it was that stood in Bethlehem on the night when Herod’s sword swept its nurseries of Innocents, and the little feet were stiffened for ever"''), despair (''"She is humble to abjectness. Hers is the meekness that belongs to the hopeless"'') and insanity (''"She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides"'').