2026-09-23 11:56 UTC
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social Wouldn't this be a natural consequence of writing the fairy tales down at a time when only nobles or clergy were literate? (I'd imagine that this level of rewriting did not happen as much for oral tales, but I don't know the statistics.)
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 2026-09-23 12:53
@peterb@mathstodon.xyz The bulk of the tales were written down in the 19th century, when the educated middle classes far outnumbered priests or nobles.