Fairy tales/folk stories:
- Rumplestiltskin
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Smith and the Devil
- Beauty and the Beast
- Faust
- Cinderella
- Rapunzel
- Sleeping Beauty
- Hansel and Gretel
- Red Riding Hood
- Aesop’s Fables
- Baba Yaga
- Snow White
- Little Red Riding Hood
Movies/television shows/plays:
- Supernatural
- Moana
- Into the Woods – Steven Sondheim and James Lapine
- The Witcher
Books:
- Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Heartless by Marissa Meyer
- Norse Myths by Neil Gaiman
- The Mahabharata by R.K. Naranyan
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak
- Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph
- Kidwrangling by Kaz Cooke
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Brides of Rollrock Island (Sea Hearts) by Margo Lanagan
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
- The Bible
Music:
- Robert Johnson
- The Charlie Daniels’ Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia
General references:
Graca da Silva, Sara & Tehrani, Jamshid J. 2016 ‘Comparitive phylogenic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales. Royal Society of Open Science. 3: 150645. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.150645
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/the-first-fairytales-were-feminist-critiques-of-patriarchy-we-need-to-revive-their-legacy
https://electricliterature.com/why-we-keep-telling-the-same-stories/