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How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work

Stuff You Should Know

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The Beauty of Fairy Tales

Jack Zeipse says children see the fairy tale as like a counter world, a reflection of their own world. And specifically it teaches children to identify tyrants and people who are power mad because those people almost invariably come to a terrible end in these stories. Joan Acacela says that you should take an X-Acto knife and just cut the Juniper tree out of your house.

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