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If ogres and witches give the kiddies nightmare, as is said, shouldn't Walt Disney send 'em screaming into hysterics? Well, here's what eminent educators have to say about that.

I ran into Walt Disney's "Lullaby Land" one day, and those ogres took my eye and ear. How they shimmied over the landscape! And their blood-chilling yells! Lon Chaney might have yelled like that, if he had lived far enough into the talkie era. But those banshee bellows must have made Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi feel pretty cheap.

While all the "oo-oo-oo-oohing" was going on, a youngster in the audience started to cry. And kept on crying. A lot of shushing was needed to handle the situation, and the incident started my brain working, my mental boiling point being practically zero. What I started wondering was this:
How many other children have been frightened by this picture? How many have been kept awake or given nightmares by the Big, Bad Wolf, the wicked witch in "Hansel and Gretel," or the rats in "The Pied Piper?" […]