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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1094235" data-attributes="member: 6533">I completely agree that Fairy Tales are not necessarily for children.  Grim's first printing of Red Riding Hood has a lot of erotic elements to it.  Not exactly a metaphor.I would, however, register a lot of reservation about the whole remnant myth hypothesis.  There are a lot of important scholarly reasons for doing so, but I the reason I register a complaint is that it undermines the immediate creativity involved in producing fairy tales.  While there are a lot of connections and potential connections between various mythologies and a variety of genres, and I would not deny that, I do have the impression that there is a nasty denigrating component to the remnant myth theory.  One that implies that fairy tales have no value of their own and aren't so much a product of the people who created them as results of controveries among the 'elites' who governed their lives.  That and there is an amazing amount of post-reformation spin in the idea of post-Christian/pre-Christian anything.Bottom line is the production of Fairy Tales is pretty murky and fraught with controversy.That and the whole maiden/crone dynamic just seems way too post-romantic/modernist to really sit well with me as an honest interpretation of the work in context.   Though I have no beef with it as a good reading of the tale itself or spin on its potential lessons.There was a really neat reading of the Frog Prince story and the changes in it over time in that Education of Max Bickford(do I have the title right?) really wish they hadn't cancelled that.</blockquote>

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