Talk:The Ghost in the Tree/@comment-90.190.229.220-20170625155457/@comment-27237080-20200127200854

You fail a lot of times trying to explain. Villagers didn't knew their children were being basically and literally murdered and cooked up, which later was given to the villagers to eat without htem knowing what they are eating exactly, it literally destroys the "it was their choice" idea, since their choice was to eat food that was given, but I doubt any of them would choose to eat it knowing what is the soup made up of.

"This hints that the Crones don't take only orphas, but all the children who are given up. " Every child that is given up becomes literally an orphan, meaning that Crones take any orphan, because orphan is someone who is given up, so your point is invalid here as well, since your logic flawed.

Villagers are foolish and stupid, they believe that with kids everything is fine and they don't even dare to question, since they are afraid it will probably be a bad omen to question the magical beings that "are taking care of you" because you give kids you can't feed, so they are happily giving children to them that they can't sustain themselves. There is a conscious "choice" to an certain level with the info they are given, sadly, if you give them more info the outcome suddenly changes, which in return would prove your logic being flawed.