Wicked Bodies - The witch eduring & Link to Brothers Grimm

Petherbridge, D. (2013). Witches et wicked bodies. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, p.111.

'Persistent images of the hideous, envious witch crone and the sinister sirens of the night were an important aspect of the Symbolist movement in the late nineteenth century, and also continued as powerful generators of art, literature, music, opera and film in the twentieth century.'

'Witchcraft was appropriated for children's consumption in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in increasingly sanitised formats, separating ugly history from delightful fairy tales. Tales of witches in text and illustration have never entirely lost their thrill but have become the designated space for exploration of dark and hidden desires, which the revelations of psychology have relocated within the individual unconscious.' 

'The rise of feminism in the twentieth century challenged centuries-old literary and visual stereotypes of women as entrenched forms of discrimination, radically affecting many women practitioners in the arts.'

'Misogyny, gender, age inequalities and, increasingly, the commodification of youth and beauty, so closely related to the dualistic stereotype of the 'witch', remain significant issues in modern society and culture.'

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- Maybe use one or two of these quotes when backing up critical analysis of contemporary references in Chapter 3.

- Especially appropriated for children's consumption

- Link to Brothers Grimm: hags / witches  &  evil step mothers as witches : crone & seductress 'dualistic stereotype'

- Evil step mother replacing birth mother. Seducing / manipulating husband / sometimes king etc. E.g. Hansel & Gretel convincing husband to abandon children in the forest

- Jung's archetypes of evil & terrible mother (step mother) taking over from the nurturing loving mother (birth mother) & taking the form of the witch to deal with projections of Campbell's metaphysical, cosmological, sociological & pedagogical functions.

- Even the forest (fitting in with the mother archetype) becomes the dark pitch black forest where the children get lost (fitting in with the evil mother archetypal image) & is the home of the embodiment of the anti-maternal image