This story can be traced back to a time when Western and Eastern Indo-European languages split, which was approximately 5,000 years ago, which means that it predates the Bible and even Greek myths.
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers has conducted a phylogenetic analysis on common fairy tales and has found that many of them appear to be much older than has been thought. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Sara Graça da Silva, a social scientist/folklorist with New...
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