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I love it when new books show up in the library...it's not very often, but every once in a while there's a new book to look at. I found this really neat one, it was a fairy tale about a girl whose mother casts a spell on so she sleeps until the wars of her land are over.

And then she wakes up and she explores the new world, and she makes new friends and she finds her mother as an old, old woman and tells her all of her adventures. It's a little bittersweet at the end, but it's really good, if anybody would like to borrow it.

Does anybody have any legends or stories like that? People going to sleep and waking up new places, or traveling to new worlds? I'd like to hear 'em.

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That's so true! Though it seems like each place has its own fairy tales and then its own grim and dark stories. The range seems pretty standard.

The oldest stories are lessons on how to live by the culture of the day. Respect your elders, be kind to everyone, otherwise you're going to get eaten or turned into a goat.

I wonder if fairy tales are just stories based on truth but with a lesson or something added to it. I know a couple of our stories back home are like that.

The best stories embellish the truth a bit. It's the difference between a volcanic eruption and a bird made of fire who lived in the bowels of the earth.

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