Fairy Tale Fckery- Ep. 1: The Origins of Common and Creepy Fairy Tales
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week the gals kick off the season with fairy tale origins. They talk about the history of fairy tales and how they originated, as well as the meanings behind some of the most well known stories. Tales that you almost certainly grew up with... they're actually pretty creepy when you really look at them!
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-Sources:
- Where do fairy tales come from? - BBC Culture
- Fairy tale - Wikipedia
- Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say - BBC News
- Madame d'Aulnoy - Wikipedia
- 5 Facts About The Brothers Grimm (biography.com)
- The goose girl - Grimm (grimmstories.com)
- The robber bridegroom - Grimm (grimmstories.com)
- The three snake-leaves - Grimm (grimmstories.com)
- Hansel and Gretel - Grimm (grimmstories.com)
- Little Red Riding Hood - Grimm (grimmstories.com)
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/hansel-and-gretel-true-story
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/286510/the-true-story-of-hansel-and-gretel-by-louise-murphy/9780142003077/readers-guide/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Don't trust a wolf in sheep's clothing. Well, stranger danger, you know? Just because somebody's acting all nice and friendly. |
| 0:08.4 | Nice, friendly people are usually the worst. Trust the rude bitches. Yeah. Okay, they're going to tell you straight and they're not going to eat your grandma. |
| 0:16.0 | Exactly. I just feel like I've run into that so many times now with new friends that I should know. |
| 0:21.5 | Like they might try to eat my grandma. |
| 0:23.9 | Apparently, though, this line is actually from Matthew 715, |
| 0:28.4 | and it warns about a wolf and sheep's clothing. |
| 0:31.4 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:35.7 | That so fucked up presents. that so fucked up a podcast and other generally fucked up stuff. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello and welcome back to That's So Fucked Up, a podcast about Colts murder and other generally |
| 0:56.5 | fucked up stuff. But you pressed play. So you probably know that this is That's So Fucked Up |
| 1:01.8 | presents a spinoff of That So Fucked Up where every month I talk about whatever the fuck I want |
| 1:08.5 | all month and with who I want and I have a lot of fun. |
| 1:13.3 | This month I get to hang out all month with I will let you introduce yourself, but somebody |
| 1:19.0 | that I'm very fucking excited to be telling about all this fairy tale fuckery. Hey Katie, can you |
| 1:26.1 | tell the people who you are in case they don't know? |
| 1:29.4 | Yes, of course. My name is Katie and I'm the creator and co-host of Queens podcast where my friend |
| 1:35.5 | Nathan and I pair cocktails with exciting women from history and spill the tea and history's got a lot of |
| 1:42.7 | fucked up stuff in it. So that's how I found your show |
| 1:45.9 | while researching something and was just like, oh, this show is so much fun. So I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:50.9 | Thank you. I fucking always forget this. You guys probably know, but my name's Ashley Love Richards, |
| 1:55.2 | your other host for the season with Katie. And yeah, this month we are talking about fairy tale fuckery. I'm so excited about |
| 2:04.1 | this. Me too. You know, a lot of times how I come up with a season is I'll think of one |
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