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Fall 2016, Page 7

Fairy Tale

“Stories may not actually breathe, but they can animate”   — Arthur Frank, Letting Stories Breathe This is one of my favorite …

Storytelling Reading

“They are not alive, but they breathe and are vigorous, and as they are passed on to us through traditions of storytelling, …

Fairy tales and listening

“Together, storytellers and listeners have collaborated through intuition as well as con- scious conception to form worlds filled with naive morality.” We …

Animals in Fables

“Fables, inspired by Aesop, in this respect have generally posed a question that was at the heart of Aesop’s tales: Can human …

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“Though many ancient tales might seem magical, miraculous, fanciful, superstitious, or unreal to us, people believed them, and these people were and …

Telling Fairytales

““Evolutionarily speaking, we talk because we were the only primates who gained social status and therewith fitness by talking. . . . Psychologically speaking, …

How to Tell a Fairy Tale

“We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must …