The DARK Secret Behind Every Fairy Tale

What’s the oldest fairy tale in the world? We might now actually know the answer to that. This video uncovers the two oldest fairy tales ever discovered:

These are the roots of our most powerful myths. And they’ve survived across cultures, from Egypt to the Norse, from Appalachia to ancient Rome.

📚 In this video:
• The oldest written fairy tale ever found
• The first oral story that evolved into Faust, Rumpelstiltskin & more
• Mythology, folklore, and the origins of storytelling
• Betrayal, resurrection, and the danger of unchecked power
• Why ancient fairy tales were not fantasies

🎥 Whether you’re into mythology, folk horror, writing, or deep lore, this is the origin of stories as we know them.

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✨ The Tale of the Two Brothers, an ancient Egyptian myth written 3,200 years ago, with betrayal, resurrection, and a heart hidden in a tree.
🔥 The Smith and the Devil, a 6,000-year-old oral tale, reconstructed by modern researchers, where a blacksmith strikes a terrifying deal with the Devil.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:14 - The Oldest Written Fairy Tale
07:23 - The Oldest Fairy Tale Ever Told
12:50 - This Story Is Still Being Told
13:36 - The Crossroads in the Delta
15:03 - Faust & the Devil’s Bargain
17:35 - Tracing the Tale & Its Versions
20:00 - Why This Story Still Matters Today

Sources:
Jamie Tehrani & Sara Graça da Silva – The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood (2013)
Jamie Tehrani & Sara Graça da Silva – Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales (Royal Society Open Science, 2016)
Jack Zipes – The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Marina Warner – Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Alan Dundes – Interpreting Folklore
Bruno Bettelheim – The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar – The Classic Fairy Tales
Brian Boyd – On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Papyrus D’Orbiney – British Museum Manuscript EA 10183 (Translation of The Tale of the Two Brothers)
Aarne–Thompson–Uther (ATU) Index – Folklore classification system used to track fairy tale types across cultures
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