Fairy Tales

 

“The brothers ‘ Grimm devoted long years to bringing the world the somewhat civilized fairy tales they had gathered out of the folk tradition. Although they had no help from spiritual science, they lived wholeheartedly with these tales, convinced that they were giving human beings what belonged intrinsically to human nature itself.

 

When you know this, you will understand that although the age of reason did its best for a hundred years of so to alienate everyone, even children, away from fairy tales, now things are changing. Fairy tale collections like the Grimms have found their way to every person who is alive to such things, they have become the property and treasure of every child’s heart. Yes, property of all our hearts.”

The Poetry and meaning of Fairy Tales
Rudolf Steiner

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