folk tale
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Tales from the Comment Crypt
Halloween comes early with Jezebel’s annual Spooky Story Contest, where readers leave their terrifying tales in the comments (they can also be emailed to madeleine@jezebel.com). Other than that, the rules are are as follows: 1) The story must be true,…
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Rooting for Folk Tales
But the question that’s been on my mind for a while now is how and why we’ve come to recognize certain tales as perennial (and universal) and have relegated others to complete obscurity. Or, to be more exact, how we’ve…
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A Tale as Old as Time
Fairytales are some of the oldest stories we know, and as it turns out, they might be even older than we thought. The Guardian looks into the mysterious origins of stories like Rumplestiltskin and Beauty and the Beast.
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A Really Strange Story
“I have a kind of weird story related to death. Something my father told me. He said it was an actual experience he had when he was in his early twenties. Just the age I am now. I’ve heard the…