Pill Pod 132 - Fairy Tale Feminism
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The Importance of Folktales in German Culture
A lot of these stories have really deep sort of psychoanalytical roots. They're very simplistic, but the social and kind of domestic themes that they touch on are pretty deeply in European culture. And what's interesting is like these weren't originally stories meant for children. The Grimm Brothers actually just took basically what were like oral traditions and put them into a collection. That's where fairytales come in because they were seen as this kind of like cultural code that people told among themselves in the countryside.
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