human
Have you been reading or telling fairy stories to your boy lately?
gpt
Why, yes, the mother replied.
human
He is passionately fond of them, and I tell him some every day.
gpt
And what, may I ask, are the stories that you tell to him most frequently?
human
Well, madam, said the physician, gravely,
gpt
I must ask you either to stop telling him fairy tales or to choose for him fairy tales with less gruesome elements in them. He is a boy of nervous temperament, and, figuratively speaking, he has been poisoned by the fear-images that are so abundant in the stories he has heard. Take him out into the open air, turn his thoughts to other things, and be more discreet in your choice of reading matter for him. Unless you do this, there is danger that he will yet suffer from something far more serious than night terrors.