{"id":1184,"date":"2009-09-10T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T06:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T06:39:17","slug":"fairy-tales-have-ancient-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/fairy-tales-have-ancient-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tales have ancient origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dr. Jamie Tehrani,  studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world.<br \/>\nWhilst the European version tells the story of a little girl who is tricked by a wolf masquerading as her grandmother, in the Chinese version a tiger replaces the wolf.<br \/>\nIn Iran, where it would be considered odd for a young girl to roam alone, the story features a little boy.<br \/>\nContrary to the view that the tale originated in France shortly before Charles Perrault produced the first written version in the 17th century, Dr Tehrani found that the varients shared a common ancestor dating back more than 2,600 years.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cOver time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism. Because many of them were not written down until much later, they have been misremembered or reinvented through hundreds of generations.<br \/>\n\u201cBy looking at how these folk tales have spread and changed it tells us something about human psychology and what sort of things we find memorable. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/6142964\/Fairy-tales-have-ancient-origin.html>Read more at Telegraph&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jamie Tehrani, studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world. Whilst the European version tells the story of a little girl who is tricked by a wolf masquerading as her grandmother, in the Chinese version a tiger replaces the wolf. In Iran, where it would be considered odd for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}