Being raised on fairy tales and fables, once I was olde enough to start exploring more tales and digging deeper into the past, there was always something that felt so familiar in those ancient mythologies. Story lines and ideas seemed to mirror some of my favorite childhood tales – or vice versa, should we say?
Turns out there may be a legitimate reason for those sentiments!
Check out the article from Electric Literature, which states how the fairy tales we’re all so familiar with could have been told for thousands of years before Hans Christian Andersen and the like.

Fairy Tales Might Be Thousands of Years Older Than You Think