They were able to find the ancestries of 76 tales, tracking them backward using language trees. As they tracked, they found evidence that some tales were actually based in other stories.

Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen, London: Dent, New York: Dutton, 1904, pp. 31-35. ... One of them knew the Latin Dictionary by heart and the town newspapers for three ...

Fairy tales connect with us. We see ourselves in fairytales. We long to be as kind as Cinderella, as patient as Belle and sometimes as grumpy as Grumpy. We get attached to the characters because we ...