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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.

The Witch Must Die

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      Publisher Basic Books
      Published 7 July 2000
      ISBN-13 9780465008964
      978-0465008964
      ISBN-10 0465008968
      Also in:
      Politics, Philosophy & Society Folklore studies / Study of myth

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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