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Welcome to The Fairy Tellers podcast! We explore what myths, legends, folklore, fables, and fairy tales say about cultures both then and now. So grab a hot cup of cocoa and a comfy seat while we retell you a thing.
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Saturday May 02, 2026
Saturday May 02, 2026
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina talk about the social historical interpretations for fairy tales. Using the essay Fairies and Hard Facts: The Reality of Folktales by Eugen Weber, we move from talking about fairy tales using the psychoanalytic approach to using historical perspectives to find out when forest might simply be a forest and when famine makes monsters of mothers. Katrina starts off by retelling The Children of Famine before Geoff retells the tale of The Three Journeymen. Finally Katrina retells Eve’s Unequal Children to discuss how while these tales might not sit well with modern audiences, they might have rang true to the tellers when they were circulating around the hearth.
Stories Told:
The Children of Famine by Brothers Grimm
The Three Journeymen by Brothers Grimm
Eve’s Unequal Children by Brothers Grimm
Books and Essays Cited:
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Translated by Jack Zipes
Teaching Fairy Tales Edited by Nancy L. Canepa
Fairies and Hard Facts: The Reality of Folktales essay by Eugen Weber
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
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