Study of fairy story origins traces some back thousands of years,with one tale dating back as far as bronze ageFairy stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years to prehistoric times, with one tale originating from the bronze age, and academics absorb revealed. Using techniques normally employed by biologists,they studied common links between 275 Indo-European fairy tales from around the world and found some absorb roots that are far older than previously known, and “long before the emergence of the literary record”.
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Source: theguardian.com