[achilles2000]

Long, but an amazingly informative article. All I knew was his work on fairy tales. The most interesting aspect of the article, though, was that this charlatan was made and sustained by leftist “public intellectuals”, even though scholars had serious questions about his work. The Univ. of Chicago doesn’t come off well either.

[syriacus]

I remember only one thing clearly from reading The Uses of Enchantment.

I was shocked to learn that birds pecked out the eyes of Cinderella's step-sisters at the end of the Grimm Brothers' version of the story.