Last week, I wrote about discovering treasures either those slight and insignificant like Jamie Oliver’s ‘bank find’ or those much more important like unearthing unexpected talents in the classroom. It woud seem that a culturally significant treasure trove has recently been discovered in Germany, where a stash of around 500 entirely new fairytales from the early 19th Century has been unearthed.
These tales were gathered by a local historian called Franz Xaver von Scho?nwerth in Bavaria during the time that the Brothers Grimm were active. The Bavarian Cultural Curator, Erika Eichenseer summed-up the importance of these fairytales: “Their main purpose was to help young people on their path to adulthood, showing them that dangers and challenges can be overcome through virtue, prudence and courage.”