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12. If you look at the old popular (European) fairy tales

Wed Oct 20, 2021, 02:11 PM

Oct 2021

most are pretty gruesome. "Step-sisters" cutting off heels or toes to fit in a pair of "glass slippers" so they could take the hand of a prince, wolves eating grannies and dressing in her clothes to "fool" a little girl to get closer so he could and eventually does, eat her too (in the unexpurgated version), and on and on.

Many of these parables were designed to basically reflect the brutality of the societies from which they emerged.

It wasn't until recently - and I would say the latter half of the 20th century - when children were "coddled".

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