Dull Gret

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Mad Meg by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562.
Mad Meg by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562.


Dull Gret, also known as Mad Meg, is the Anglicized version of Dulle Griet, a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1562 painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. The painting depicts a peasant woman who leads an army of women to pillage Hell.

She appears as a minor character in Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls.

She is also the subject of a 1640s painting by Flemish painter David Teniers the Younger. [1]

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