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How did Persephone get captured?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The myth says that Hades dragged her down into the underworld when she was sitting in a field. She then was tricked by Hades into eating 6 pomegranate seeds so she has to live in the Underworld for 6 months a year.

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