The Marsh King's Daughter features Vikings, but The Steadfast Tin Soldier has tin soldiers, muskets, ballet, and plumbing.
You see the same thing in literary fairytales like Hans Christian Andersen's. Guns actually appear a lot of fairytales, from the Grimms and otherwise. Spoiler alert: someone shoots that dragon with a gun. The image at the top of this post is an illustration of the Grimms' tale "The Four Skillful Brothers." It looks very fantastical and medieval, right? That looks like the kind of dragon you'd slay with a sword. People living in the 1800s would have lived to see the first films and World War II. You had Napoleon, the Louisiana Purchase, the American Civil War (in no particular order). The first telephone was 1876, the light bulb 1878. Just for context, the telegraph was invented in 1837. Now that they were in print, they existed as the product of that time period. The result of the folklore movement was fairytales frozen in time. We also had a wave of fairytale writers, like Hans Christian Andersen, inspired by folktales. Contemporary settings.įolktale collecting's major boom began around the early 1800s with the Brothers Grimm.
I believe most people who told oral folktales, while they may have featured princesses and castles and so on, pictured the events as happening in towns like their own, with technology like their own. But then why are there no "modern" fairytales? There's a popular conception that fairytales all take place a very long time ago, in ancient times with princesses and castles and knights.
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