title: "Fearing our mothers": an overview of the psychoanalytic theories concerning the vagina dentata motif F547.1.1.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife, Philadelphia 19104-3325, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otero
mesh_terms: D001009:Anxiety, Castration; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D005495:Folklore; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014621:Vagina