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In the film The Witch, the two parent characters seem to have considerable anxiety that their pre-adolescent son was lusting after his older sister. Was this a common anxiety among Puritan families, especially because of their seemingly large family sizes?

by /u/stumblecow in /r/AskHistorians

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