Twisted Fairy TalesConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 514
Jun 10, 2020 • 53m
Fairytale Fraud
Guest: Claudia Schwabe, Associate Professor, German, Utah State University, and author, "Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture"
In 1963, a German writer published "The Truth About Hansel and Gretel," claiming to have discovered an archeological site, old bones, and some very burnt gingerbread. The tale was a hoax, but it gripped the world, and the whole incident reveals the cultural significance of fairy tales, even to adults.
Twisted Fairy Tales
Guest: Rachel Wadham, Education and Juvenile Literature Librarian and regular contributor to the Lisa Show, BYUradio
Rachel Wadham recommends some not-so-classic fairy tales.
Johnny Appleseed: The Eccentric Man Behind the Great American Legend
Guest: Howard Means, journalist and author, "Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story"
Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman, was a pioneer of the American frontier, and an eccentric one at that. He's a larger-than-life figure with a story we've all helped to promote and expand. His history, though, is a bit more complicated than the Disney biopic lets on.