Snow White’s Sister, Cinderella’s Eagle and What’s With all the Blood?
By Lon Maxwell, Reference Department Fairy tales come from many places; mythology, folk legends and even news headlines of the day. Hansel and Gretel may have hearkened back to the great famine of the fourteenth century when parents abandoned children and cannibalistic old ladies were not unheard of. The Pied Piper of Hamelin refers back […]