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Episode 156: The “Best of” Series – Why Read Fairy Tales, Ep. 70

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The Light Bulb Is Weird

Fairy tale has become a generic term for any story that has kind of supernatural elements or fairy land. A true folk tale comes to you through the oral tradition and has been recorded by someone. So Hans Christian Anderson has much more in common with Narnia than it does Alice in Wonderland. The Grim brothers were actually doing a scholarly work. They took this seriously because they believe that they were tracking down ruins of the gospel.

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