Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.20.45.251-20161103165218/@comment-25991826-20161106184939

KNN005 wrote: SpiritedDreaming wrote: Technically. There was a sea witch who gave the Little Mermaid her legs, if that's what you are asking. And then her sisters went to see the Sea Witch when they found out what was happening with the prince and the other women, and got a knife from her that the Little Mermaid could use to kill the Prince and his new wife to turn back into a mermaid. Back in the day when they made these tales, didn't they consider they might traumatize the kids they told them to?

You kidding? This was back in the 1600's-1800's: to quote a friend of ours, "[It wasn't] exactly a shirt and tie kind of a place!"

Those were the days were you were often considered a grown man/woman by the time you were as young as 15! During a time where you often died before your 40th birthday if you were lucky, that was almost essential.

They weren't concerned about "traumatizing the kids"; the world did that for them.