5 yrs, 11 mths ago

Fairy tales, fact or fiction?

Children’s movies are famous for it. Legends like Pocahontas, Anastasia, Road to Elderado, the list is endless. So what about tales like sleeping beauty and snow White? Did the foreign prince come by when snow White was choking on the apple? How long can a person be in a coma without the assistance of modern medicine?
What do you think? Can a fairy tale be real? If so, how?
Note: please specify the story.

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  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    What a wonder thread! I love fairytales and fables when i was younger. Yes, many original tales were very brutal and gore.

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    My husband loves to tell the kids Aesop fables. They are very moralistic and usually end with the transgressor being eaten by a wolf! Nursery Rhymes are also pretty violent at times – think three blind mice, sing a song of sixpence, jack and jill and ring a round a rosie (about dying in the plague).

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    cinderella was a grimm’s brother’s story with a very brutal ending. Fairy tales often have a lesson/ moral to the story.
    though not sure what it is exactly

    of course Anastasia is a fictional story based on a real princess in the Russian revolution. The real story goes that the sisters were shot dead, but there was a girl who said she was Anastasia. Without DNA confirmation she managed to be one for a while i think =D

    that’s all i know

    • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

      Some of the Brothers Grimm stories are horrific! If your kid couldn`t sleep before story time, they`d have a hell of a time sleeping after some of those grim Grimm tales!

      There have been a few Anastasia claimants. I remember reading a few years ago that the final graves of the Romanov family were found. DNA evidence proved that all the bodies belonged to the Romanov royal family. Everyone was accounted for – Anastasia died with her whole family.

      NERD POWER!

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    Wow, thanks for sharing, Mis8, how interesting!

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    Gee misfortune8, you’re a wealth of information. I knew the story about ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ but not the one about ‘Sleeping Beauty’.

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    Wow misfortune8 that’s interesting! I had no idea!

  • 5 yrs, 11 mths ago

    “Sleeping Beauty” is based on Snorri Sturlusson’s “Volsunga Saga”. Sturlusson was a 12th Century bard, chronicler of Icelandic history & myths. I don’t know how much is fact & how much is fiction. Brynhild, the sleeping beauty, was possibly based on a shieldmaiden (female warrior) or a Swedish princess. I’m a nerd: I love the old sagas.

    “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” is based on fact. In 1284 there was a mass disappearance of children from Hamelin, Germany, following the appearance of a piper who dressed in multicoloured garb. There are multiple theories about what happened to the children, but none of them proven. The story of a rat plague was added a few hundred years after the event.

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