Tracing the Phrase: "OId Wives' Tales"

Here’s Sharon Blackie on the idea of “old wives tales”—from Hagitude: “In the West today, the wisdom of elder women is rarely acknowledge, let alone valued. Think of the phrase “old wives’ tales”—in common parlance, it’s used to refer to a story which is told and presented as a truth, but which out to be discounted as foolish or superstitious, and as co…