![]() It's quite dreadful," says Maria Tatar, who teaches a course on folklore and mythology at Harvard. ![]() ![]() "What do we have? Nags, witches, evil stepmothers, cannibals, ogres. ![]() But why does the face of evil so often belong to an old woman? For as long as people have been telling stories, crones have been scaring the wits out of children. Scholar Maria Tatar says it's "probably more frightening for adults than children because it compresses the aging process into about 20 seconds."įear old women in fairy tales. Disney's Snow White has a scene in which the beautiful queen/stepmother turns into an old hag.
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