By Molly Caldwell Crosby
Sleeping Beauty falls into a deep slumber. Rip van Winkle awakens after twenty years to find life dramatically changed. What if they were more than tales inspired by colorful imaginations? What if sleep could be dangerous ¬ even deadly?
From 1916 through the 1920s, people around the world faced [...]
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By Holly Tucker
The all-so-familiar Tales of Mother Goose have decidedly unfamiliar origins. The fairy tale as a genre dates back to sixteenth-century Italy and late seventeenth-century France. The author of Mother Goose, Charles Perrault, would like us to believe that the tales were collected from rustic old ladies and wetnurses. But really, nothing could be [...]
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