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The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales

by Sheldon Cashdan · 1999

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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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psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfolklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
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storytellingstorytellingMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 304 pages

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