[Glorantha] Re: Collecting Folktales...

Tim

>By their nature, folktales evolve as they are told, with individuals
>adding their own twist, or dropping elements that seem irrelevant to
>their understanding (or the audience in question) - Compare, for
>instance Disney's Cinderalla with a British Panto version (in its
>own way a "folktale") and the earlier tales on which it is based.

I loved the Chilean "Snow White and the Forty Thieves."

As for collectors, surely this was a major activity of the (proto-) God Learners in the 700s.

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