Breaking the Mother Goose Code by Jeri Studebaker

Author:Jeri Studebaker [Studebaker, Jeri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78279-021-1
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2015-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

The idea that fairy tales were born out of pre-Christian religion is not a new one. Over the years scholars often wrote about fairy tales being pre-Christian in origin. In fact, almost as soon as literate Europeans began to take an interest in fairy tales they admitted these stories contained secret, coded information about non-Christian religions:

Scientific interest in [fairy tales] began in the 18th century with Einckelmann, Haman, and J.G. Herder … Herder said that such tales contained the remnants of an old long-buried faith expressed in symbols … Dissatisfaction with Christian teaching and the first longings for a more vital, earthy and instinctual wisdom began then; later we find it more explicitly among the Romanticists in Germany. It was this religious search for something which seemed lacking in official Christian teaching that first induced the famous brothers Jakob [sic] and Wilhelm Grimm to collect folk tales. (von Franz 1987: 3)

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