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Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales

  • Written by Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling
Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy talesFairy tales are extremely moral in their demarcation between good and evil, right and wrong. Marcella Cheng/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA

Originally for adults, many fairy tales can be brutal, violent, sexual and laden with taboo. When the earliest recorded versions were made by collectors such as the Brothers Grimm, the adult content was...