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[bluecatahoula]

For the record, this article pissed me off. Not that the information contained therein is inaccurate, but it is not new. The Aarne-Thompson Tale Type index determined that all tales are related across cultures almost 100 years ago. Maybe they didn't think they were related in the same way (or maybe they did), but the basic science is the same

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[elf_groupie]

The problem is that the author of the news article totally missed the goals of the research project mentioned. It's a well known fact that those tales are related across cultures, like you said. The cultural anthropologist wasn't trying to prove that these tales are related. He was trying to get at a reason for WHY these tales would be spread so far over time and space

[bluecatahoula]

I'm willing to bet that the Telegraph just screwed it up, but that doesn't change the fact that I finished this article and wanted to scream (though maybe for different reasons than you). I'm not even going to toe into the Jungian theory of race memory and universal unconcious and how that might be incorporated....