If you were a Scottish princess, wouldn’t using a spell to turn your mother the queen into a bear be considered an act of insurrection? It’s hard to imagine that in real life Merida—the red-headstrong princess in Disney Pixar’s Brave—would avoid the tower for very long. In fact, consorting with a witch would be pretty risky, burning at the stake and all. Not to mention Scottish royalty has a particularly discouraging tradition of lea-