Board Thread:Show-Related Questions and Answers/@comment-91.140.37.79-20130329072829

This question has been bugging me for a really long time. The snow white ending happened around the early 80's in our year system, shortly before the curse broke, and that's around when the story was actually published in our world.

However, no one has ever bothered to explain how the fairy tale writers knew that those characters they described in their stories existed, or would exist. Is it a coincidence? I doubt it. Did some prophet (or maybe Rumpelstiltskin) reach our world once, and told people stories about those characters, that later became fairy tales?

I think that's what bothered Emma the most too, and did not let her believe. The fairy tale for little red riding hood, for example, is a 17th century one(1600-1699), but Red's story happened around the same time as Snow's ( late 20th century). The show must make up a way to explain how those characters became fairy tales beforehand, and who told the fairy tale writers about those heroes.

What do you think? 