Seem consistent with story telling in general. Technically I think religious fairy tales roots in the Bronze Age as well, making both the secular and the religious telling of magic stories as old.
Looking at subject matter in Fairy Tales, I have often wondered about the origins of tales of "little people", "trolls", "good folk", "changelings", etc..... Humans have always been quite concerned about others outside their immediate community/group. Its possible these tales have far older origins, from the time when our direct ancestry and other branches of the human evolutionary tree were contemporaries.
torbjorn_b_g_larsson
Jan 21, 2016