FAIRY TALES ORIGIN

Peoples of many faces and nationalities have enchanted in hearing and telling tales that carries someone away into wonders and a delightful land of make-believe where handsome knights rescue beautiful princess, where ogres and ugly witches are put to demise by charming champions and where a petite seed becomes a giant beanstalk that reaches high up into the sky where another world dwells with gold and treasures.

Fragments of a 4000-year-old papyrus found in Egypt tells that Egyptians enjoyed hearing stories that sound much like those we read and tell today. Adults and children passed winter nightfall sitting around the fireplaces of their homes, listening to a beloved tale bearer relate secretive and magical tales of escapade and horror, long before the printing press was invented.

These tales were repeated again and again. The more people hear these stories, the more familiar they become to the ears. Consequently, more and more hearers loved to hear them. Parents often tell these tales of wonders and horrors to their children, then these children to their children’s children. To escape a world of harsh feelings and laborious days of difficulties of staying awake, even adults loves to listen to these tales of strange, wild, make-believe, and even not impossible measures.

In squares of marketplace, trading centers, where people regularly comes and visit, also explorers and colonists tell their stories of odd and shares them to anyone. These stories travel to different places and people of the society, even kings and slaves. Making a wide variety of listeners and these listeners tell the heard talk to someone else with their own version and special touches, however the plots lingered basically the same as the one they’ve heard.

Published: December 31, 2018