A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales, gathered by the local historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886) in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz at about the same time as the Grimm brothers were collecting the fairytales that have since charmed adults and children around the world.
Last year, the Oberpfalz cultural curator Erika Eichenseer published a selection of fairytales from Von Schönwerth’s collection, calling the book Prinz Roßzwifl. This is local dialect for “scarab beetle”. The scarab, also known as the “dung beetle”, buries its most valuable possession, its eggs, in dung, which it then rolls into a ball using its back legs. Eichenseer sees this as symbolic for fairytales, which she says hold the most valuable treasure known to man: ancient knowledge and wisdom to do with human development, testing our limits and salvation.
Snow White is once again the focus in the fairytale world, only we’re going back in time. We’ll see her with her father and the Queen before her father passed away. In Storybrooke, Mary Margaret and David continue with their affair, while Sidney teams up with Emma to expose Regina’s corruption.
HAS BEEN A BIG PART OF THE FUN OF ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’. FIGURING OUT WHO THE PEOPLE IN THE REAL WORLD WERE IN FAIRY TALE WORLD. AND THE BIG ONE WAS JAMIE DORNAN AS THE SHERRIFF. WELL, WE FOUND OUT WHAT REGINA/EVIL QUEEN HAD ON HIM……
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