I was fortunate enough to be brought up on stories from all over. LOADS of people have folk stories that are “grotesque” to those not brought up with them, and once you get over that, you begin to look at your own folk tales and seeing how foolish and/or grotesque and/or problematical they are. I mean talking snakes with legs? Daughters getting their own father to impregnate them? Fathers offering their own daughters for rape to protect guests? Yeah, Christian-sphere mythology has a lot of grotesque bits as well and there it’s considered holy writ!