Posted on 09/06/2009 9:48:41 AM PDT by decimon
They have been told as bedtime stories by generations of parents, but fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood may be even older than was previously thought.
A study by anthropologists has explored the origins of folk tales and traced the relationship between varients of the stories recounted by cultures around the world.
The researchers adopted techniques used by biologists to create the taxonomic tree of life, which shows how every species comes from a common ancestor.
Dr Jamie Tehrani, a cultural anthropologist at Durham University, studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Popeye is one guy that is at one within his own skin.
He knows who he is, and what he is about.
There is a lot to like about Popeye.
Even if he is a salior.
Fairy tales are universal...so you will see the same stories retold over and over again in many places and times.
But that doesn’t mean that they all descended from the same story told ten thousand years ago.
For some reason, certain similar ideas pop up in cultures that have no contact (e.g. agriculture, the flood stories, religion/philosophy) that have many similarities...
A ground breaking book in this area...one apparently largely plagiarized from a 1963 book by Julius Heuscher, “A Psychiatric Study of Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning and Usefulness”, at least according to Bettleheim’s biographer Richard Pollak in his book “The Creation of Dr. B”.
Yeah.
That’s some *real* “archetypal” stuff, right there.
::: rolls eyes :::
Everybody should read Carl Jung’s “The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious”.
[it’s like, totally holographic, maaaan]
Still making The Fool’s Journey,
Salamander
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