Crone’s disease

[pjthompson]

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Here’s an interesting article from National Public Radio: Why Are Old Women Often the Face of Evil in Fairy Tales and Folklore?

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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[sollers]

I would suggest that it lot depends on exactly who the old woman is:

Ye cannae shove yer granny aff the bus (bis)
Yes cannae shove yer granny
Cause she's yer mammy's mammy:
Ye cannae shove yer granny aff the bus.

Ye can shove yer ither granny aff the bus (bis)
Ye can shove yer ither granny
Cause she's just yer daddy's mammy:
Shove yer ither granny aff the bus!

[sollers]

Having said that, I have just remembered that the Brothers Grimm turned the original Wicked Mothers in a lot of stories into Wicked Stepmothers.