
How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work
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The Origins of Little Red Riding Hood
Dr. Jamie Tarani traced the lineage back to 600 BCE, he found that you could take these tales all around the world and lump them into groups. Places as disparate as Iran and Nigeria and Europe all were in the same group. Whereas like Japan and Burma and China were in their own group. They all kind of bear this resemblance where there is a lion or a tiger or a wolf who is posing as something else in order to get the drop on someone else.
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