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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
One thing that we tend to think of fairy tales and folk tales as stories just for children, but it wasn't always like that. These were the stories that a culture told. It's like folk songs, we tend to think of them as children's songs, but they weren't always just children's songs. It's too easy to forget there was a world before recorded music when people sang if they wanted music.
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There's a really old version of Red Riding Hood that seems to have been told as a strip-tease, with the story-teller "undressing" for bed with the wolf.
And the oldest, oldest version of Red Riding Hood that I'm aware of just has her being eaten in the forest entirely, not even from straying from the path. Just... eaten. It *seems* to have been told to children as an explanation that life is random and cruel and will sometimes just crap on you for no good reason.
