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Stepmothers, relax, you'll always be wicked but true love is worth it
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|April 20, 2025
Stepmothers have always been witches.
Long before the Brothers Grimm gave us Snow White's usurping queen, there was Medea, witch of classical myth. Medea is best remembered for killing her own children but, according to Ovid, she went on to acquire a stepson, the hero Theseus, and attempted to kill him too. (Poison, of course, and with an eye on his inheritance: Witchy stepmothering 101.)
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