{VIRTUAL} WITCHES AND WISE WOMEN IN FAIRY TALES

Name: {VIRTUAL} WITCHES AND WISE WOMEN IN FAIRY TALES
Start: 2025-11-18T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-11-18T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Ritualcravt

Schedule

Tue Nov 18 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Ritualcravt | Wheat Ridge, CO

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Those familiar with classic fairy tales are well aware of the kinds of roles witches have played. In fact, fairy tale critic Maria Tatar in The Hard Facts of the Grimms Fairy Tales explains that the Grimms’ tales feature 3 distinct types of “ogres”: “beasts and monsters”, “social deviants”, and “women”, with women (perhaps unsurprisingly) making up the largest category. In this group are witches and wise women, mothers’-in-law, and stepmothers, all of whom walk a supposedly villainous path and are cast as so-called “evil” characters. However, contemporary fairy tale writers have deconstructed this pattern. This class will offer a sampling of modern-day witches and wise women in fairy tales by introducing participants to stories that feature witches in more complex, nuanced, and powerful roles. Learn all about how these depictions reinforce the immense self-sufficiency and resiliency of matriarchy.
Those interested in and/or taking the class should reach out to the instructor ([email protected]) to get a list of links of literary works so they have time to read them before attending. The class will cover a brief history of the classic fairy tale witch and then move to a discussion of the changing contemporary views, with time available for discussion of the works provided.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Susan Redington Bobby, the founder of Professor of Words, LLC, is an online teacher, a freelance editor, a writing mentor, and a tutor. Her specialty is being able to read people on a deeper level through their writing, and she has recently completed a certificate course on integrative somatic trauma therapy. She is a retired professor of English with expertise in fairy tales, adolescent literature, goddess archetypes, magical realism, creative writing, and film studies. She is the author of Beyond His Dark Materials, the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined, and co-editor of The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture. The Series Editor of Tales from Fiddler’s Green, she also occasionally publishes creative fiction. She is currently studying the Bardic Course in Druidry from OBOD. She maintains Mellie’s Grove, a certified NWF backyard wildlife habitat that is home to a rescued and small stabilized cat family and all manner of wildlife.