The mother; archetypal image in fairy tales

Orig. pub. in German as Die Mutter im Marchen, Stuttgart, Verlag Adolf Bonz, 1977. Ed. by Marie-Louise von Franz. Trans. by Michael Mitchell. Index by Daryl Sharp.

1 Introduction. 2 The mother archetype. 3 The terrible mother. 4 The jealous stepmother. Snow White. 5 Metamorphosis into animals. Jorinda and Joringel. Little Brother and Little Sister. 6 The fire mother. The drummer. Frau Trude. Fledgling. Ivan and the witch. 7 The imprisoning sorceress. Rapunzel. 8 The indifferent mother. The three little men in the woods. 9 The poison of the terrible mother. The riddle. 10 The mother as fate. Golden. The nixie of the pond. The three spinners. 11 The life-giving nature mother. The sweet porridge. 12 The healing nature mother. Granny Evergreem. 13 The self-renewing mother. The little earth-cow. 14 The transforming mother. Woodminny. 15 The great mother in our time

'...illuminates the pervasive influence of the mother complex, with particular reference to positive and negative mother figures in many well-known fairy tales....'

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