If you thought the age old fairy tales we know and love have started to get boring, then you’ll be happy to know that recently about 500 brand new fairy tales were discovered in Germany.
The fairy tales were by a local historian named Franz Xaver von Schonwerth who collected and wrote the tales very much like the Brothers Grimm did around the same time. Unfortunately, while the Grimm tales became immediately popular and beloved, von Schonwerth’s failed to achieve fame and became forgotten.
Now, the tales have seen the light again after almost 150 years and historians say that the stories are even more exciting because they contain fables and legends which had been passed down only orally until von Schonweth decided to write them down.
The finder of this gem was cultural curator, Erica Eichenseer, who has already published some of the new found stories in their native language and is working with a translator to make all the stories available to the world as soon as possible.
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