I don't believe in fairy tales.

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Many of these writers considered chapbooks and fairy tales to be associated with the poor and the rich, respectively.

All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales, my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make miracles.

They learned of mythical images that took the form of animals, learned of supernatural beings that gave hidden lessons, recreated and imagined history, transported us to ancestral places, and promoted communication between grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles and neighbours.

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And so whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry has been the great achievement of the West or by contrast, into unraveling the complex threads of memory inherent in a myth, is simply a matter of choice and cultural orientation.

She added that she, as a woman and while recalling what manga she liked to read as a child, felt that humans turning into animals might also be fun and märchenhaft...you know, like a fairy tale.