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Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales | Sheldon Cashdan

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In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying significance of fantasy and fairy tales been so insightfully and entertainingly mined.

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Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales | Sheldon Cashdan

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I read this while starting my academic career in psychology oh so many a year ago. This book hit me with childlike wonder & balanced the social science undercurrent that these stories have. What we know of fairy tales now is so different from the stories that were used to scare, teach, and inspire generation.