Hecate

Hecate Europe
Literally, ‘the distant one’. Associated by the Greeks with the moon, Hecate had a beneficent influence over such activities as farming, but she was also a goddess of the dark hours—ghosts and witchcraft fascinated the distant one who dwelt ‘on tombs’, at places ‘where two roads crossed’, or ‘near the blood of murdered persons’. The Athenians propitiated her zealously, placing offerings of food at cross-roads each montn. Hecate was the cousin of Artemis, the divine huntress.