Still Waters Posted January 20, 2016 #1 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Many well known fairy tales predate the existence of modern European languages and major world religions, finds new research. The findings, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, open up the possibility that popular folktales influenced writings in Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible and other religious works. They also negate the claims of some scholars who have held that most traditional fairy tales originated much more recently. http://news.discover...yths-160119.htm 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted January 20, 2016 #2 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Ever since humans left the precarious feeding situation they have been spinning tales. That is the price for being creative. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted January 20, 2016 #3 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Although the technique is interesting, I'm thinking that the "back to the stone age" date is not supportable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted January 22, 2016 #4 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Rumpelstiltskin??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingitsune Posted January 23, 2016 #5 Share Posted January 23, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpelstiltskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ell Posted January 24, 2016 #6 Share Posted January 24, 2016 In one or more of my e-books I also concluded that fairy tales, folklore and mythology in some cases date back about four thousand years. Other people have had the same suspicion. What is interesting about this study is that they have applied an empirical method to analyse the fairy tales and they thus provide an independent - and perhaps more accurate - proof of their ancient origins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark56 Posted January 30, 2016 #7 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I've heard it once said that ALL the stories have been told eons ago. And that people keep telling these same stories over an over again, only with their own style and place.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobolds Posted February 1, 2016 #8 Share Posted February 1, 2016 believe or not , this is how they decide “‘The Smith and the Devil’ is the one we feel absolutely confident as being a Proto-Indo-European tale,” Tehrani says. The story is about a blacksmith who makes a deal with an evil supernatural being for the power to weld any material together. Since the tale is associated with Proto-Indo-European language and includes a character who typically works with metal, the researchers park its origins around 6,000 years ago, in the Bronze Age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted February 6, 2016 #9 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Sometimes myth can have a grain of truth to it. Over the centuries when a story is told, it is altered by the generations passed down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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