Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-4839682-20130503132519

Mutewitch wrote: It's always hard to track the "origins" of a fairytale. For example, Cinderella was recolected by the Grimms... when interviewing a french nanny, which had heard the Perrault tale, which may have based his story in tales from the old past. Some scientists have theorized that the Cinderella story is actually chinese, as there's a story where a maiden goes to a festival and, while coming back home, loses a shoe because it got stuck between two stones on the road (sorry, I don't recall the source, I studied that a long long time ago xD).

This is a very, very good point!

Many of our beloved fairytales have been told in MANY countries, on different continents, even.