In the mid-nineteenth century, the ethnographer Afanasyev published around 600 Russian folktales—the world’s largest academic collection of such texts. In Russia, these tales have long been considered ...

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More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...