Does it seem that it has more than most countries?
How did they come about?
2007-03-04 03:02:15 · 8 answers · asked by Charles R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Because Germany is where the fairy folk live.
Lol, thank you for answering my question... or the compliment... whichever!
2007-03-04 03:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by fullofsugaw 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Once upon a time in Germany, the men used to drink a lot down at the local Bierkeller. Many times they came home to their wives with pathetic excuses as to why they were late. They used to share these tales with their mates so they would always have a fresh excuse for the missus. Until one day just by chance all the wives met up at the local market and do what wives do best, complain about their husbands. And in the course of the conversations the wives found out about all the tales the men were concocting about getting lost in the woods and finding Gingerbread houses, and little men in diamond mines etc. Well the women were so enraged at being so cleverly bamboozled they all went home and scolded their husbands thusly...."You useless big Fairy stop telling your stupid lying tales to me, ya drunkard old buzzard" And hence that is the story of how Fairy Tales came to be.
And none of them lived happily ever after all that.
After sleeping on it......it's probably coz there was no telly.
2007-03-04 05:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by JonBovi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting question.
I think it's because the interest in such tales began when the tales were still being told.
The brothers Grimm were around at the turn of the 18th century when the romantic movement made people want to get back to nature and the tales told by the common people were seen as worth collecting - and it was just before the development of popular printing in Germany replaced the old stories with new inventions.
2007-03-04 22:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume most countries have them - it's just that in Germany, some (namely the Brothers Grimm) actually bothered to go out, collect them, and write them down.
Then, they published what they found, given German fairy/folk tales a) more permanence and b) more publicity.
2007-03-04 03:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of the architecture,All the fairy tale castles on the Rhine valley and fairy tale buildings in places like Monshau
2007-03-04 03:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lots of the folklore that comes from Germany is meant to instill an apprehension into infants. This make the youngsters improve up with an apprehension of authority and that they obey extra of what their mothers and dads say. This has replaced from years in the past.
2016-10-02 08:58:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need something good to counter all the bad crap about us.
Thank you Jacob and Wilhelm.
2007-03-04 03:12:20 · answer #7 · answered by d. h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cuz Germans RAWK.....they have a bad past but the rawk now!!!!
2007-03-04 03:08:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋