Self-proclaimed witch Karlyn Straganana of Antioch, California, demanded that the Mount Diablo School District ban the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" because it teaches children that it is acceptable to kill witches. Straganana's complaint followed a mock trial by fifth-graders at a West Pittsburg school that found the children in the Grimm Brothers story acted in self-defense when they killed the witch. Noting that the tale depicts witches as child-eating monsters, Straganana said that the school "would not use a story that would put any other religion in a light like this."

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