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Kate Forsyth

Profession : Author

Birth : June 3, 1966

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

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