Our Mothers, or the older women in our lives at least, mothers, stepmothers, witches, bad fairies send us out in to the wilds of the forest to loose ourselves
- Red gets sent through the forest to grandmas house
- Snow white gets sent in the forest to be killed
- Gretel [and Hansel] get left in the forest to starve or be killed
- Sleeping Beauty was trapped in a forest entwined castle
- Rapunzel gets shut up in a
phallic symboltower
in the middle of a forest
and why, sexual jelousy? slow burning anger? inheritance anxiety? misplaced over protectivness?
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