Stepmothers, relax, you’ll always be wicked but true love is worth it | Kate Maltby

Two new surveys confirm that women who take on children from an earlier marriage will almost always be seen as witchesStepmothers have always been witches. Long before the Brothers Grimm gave us Snow White’s usurping queen (and long before Gal Gadot’s toe-curling recent turn in the role), 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