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sharkieboi · 2 years ago

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also hey with this Neverafter season begging you all to learn about Tale Types.

will again reiterate that the Grimms Brothers are not the “original tales” of literally anything in their collections, the oral AND written traditions of every single one their tales existed before they made, and then revised FIVE TIMES OVER, their collections.

and many of these tales have existed in various forms across multiple cultures for across multiple centuries.

“dark” fairy tales do not begin or end with the Grimms Brothers and they are in fact horrible Catholic revisionist storytellers who stole from the women in their lives

#shhh sharkie #I will send resources if wanted at a time that is not 11pm as it is when i post this but #this is my soapbox and i will preach about it for fucking ever #don’t credit the Grimms Brothers for stories that they stole from people and cultures who had already been telling them #for hundreds of years. and specifically from women who had been telling them.#and they also revised their collection five fucking times literally in order to pander to a #catholic audience. they added God to so many stories and actually took out a lot of the violence!#they kept some specific ones but they actually took out a lot of weirdly specific types of violence #they left in a lot of the incest and kept out a lot of the straight up murder tldr #and also a lot of mothers were changed to stepmothers #but also a lot more praying for babies was added #fuck the grimms

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