“Being the youngest, he was naturally his mother’s favourite; but this did not blind her to his weaknesses, and she foresaw that some day he would suffer much pain through falling in love. So she thought the best thing she could do was to bring him up with a horror of women…”
Andrew Lang, ed., The Yellow Fairy Book
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A horror of women? Is that like a murder of crows?
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