In fairy tales, evil mothers don’t exist. One might think they do, but they don’t. Those are stepmothers. The mean woman in fairy tales is never the biological mother.
Back in the day, my favorite story, and also my brother’s—the one our aunt had to tell us ten times in a row—was Hansel and Gretel.
At the end, the children lock the mean lady in an oven, and she burns up.
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