"Broadly speaking, and in most cases, the fairy tale is a dramatic projection in symbolic images of the life of the psyche, and it can travel from one country to another, one culture to another culture, whenever what it has to say holds good for human nature in both, despite their differences. […] a genuine myth, like the Chaplin clown, can always be recognized by the fact that its appeal cuts across all differences between highbrow and lowbrow tastes."
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W. H. Auden, "Grimm and Andersen", Introduction to Tales of Grimm and Andersen (1952), collected in Forewords and Afterwords (1973), p. 203
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