Talk:Into the Woods/@comment-16811522-20140619194655/@comment-4991841-20150213200628

Arguing whose version is the original is pointless, fairy tales stem from human desires we all share or at least have thought we wanted, that's why they are so accessible to all people. The Cinderella story appears all over the world, there is a similar story dating back to the ninth century in China. And in Europe Basile wrote a Cinderella story nearly thirty years before Perault. Fairy tales don't have any one author any specific orign, they evolve, they are passed down orally. Perault's is one of the most widely known and beloved but he is not the orignial.