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Fairy Tales Predate Bible and Greek Myths


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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

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Ever since humans left the precarious feeding situation they have been spinning tales. That is the price for being creative.

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Rumpelstiltskin???

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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