>>56643963Dude, holding hands to lead someone is legit the most common shit adult couples do
It’s also common imagery in real legends as a character leads another in or out of another realm
Orpheus & Eurydice, any legend involving the fey
There’s like two ways you could read it
The danger is to not trust strange wild men who attempt to seduce young women
There’s a like a bajillion folk and fairytales with that idea
Little Red Riding Hood has a similar theme of don’t trust strangers
Violence only breeds suffering, the father kills the Typhlosion, the girl uses its body parts to make a fire, and she has a child that is forever scorned and hated for it’s half-breed existence
The thing with fairy/folk tales is that they are barely, if ever, literal
Just because a crane in a Japanese story (The Crane Wife) can turn in a beautiful woman and marry a man, that story isn’t telling young men to go out and catch cranes in hope of bagging a wife
