”Life is fantastic”
/ Mini Tass ✍🏼

My daughter’s drawing of Red riding hood, from when she was little 🧺

Other beings I was afraid of as a child…

1. MÅRRAN

The icecold, shapeless, female giant shadow being in the Moomin books, by Tove Jansson.

I felt so sorry for her, at the same time as I was too scared to even look at that one page in the book, where she entered.

I knew she was just so lonely.

She had no friends and was feared by most of the ones living in Moominvalley. The ground beneath her freezed where she was walking, and her cold radiance caused others to think gloomy thoughts.

She almost didn’t speak, just howling when she was sad.

Mårran always seeks light and warmth. But she never manages to get there, the fire goes out when she gets too close.

”She stared into the lamp and slowly shook her big heavy head. A white mist of cold rolled at her feet. Now she began to glide slowly towards the lamp, a huge gray shadow of loneliness."

~ The father and the sea, 1965

2. The witch in Snow white 🍎

3. Prussiluskan in Pippi. The lady from Social services ”child protection”

Side note: other dark, female monster beings in modern children’s stories