Category: Myth, Fantasy, Folklore, Fairy Tales

  • Stick Man & Kin

    Stick Man & Kin

    Why does a man made of sticks and straw elicit simultaneous feelings of sympathy and horror? As a child I watched the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz on television once every year until I outgrew it. Of course I eventually grew back into it, but that’s another story. When I watched the Scarecrow…