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behind every myth/legend, ?

behind every myth/legend there is fact

so the fairytale Rumpelstiltskin is sure to have a factual base?

if so what is it??? whats your proof

Update:

please people whats the proof to your statements

Freud was right about you Robert L

Malruhn yours makes the most sense

Sirius did you read the question...what is the fact behind it??? DUH!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Rumpelstiltskin is a story - not a myth or legend.

    It was a story about hope being eternal - and good triumphing over evil and greed. It's a story - just like Harry Potter - just a story. Being a story doesn't make it either a myth OR legend.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I believe Rumpelstiltskin was a shaman who practiced soccery and diviation. He could have exisited thier is no such thing as mythology all mythology has some sort of proof of it really happending.

  • 1 decade ago

    I did hear that the tale of rumpelstiltskin is a phallic analogy. Think about the name.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sometimes fiction is just fiction.

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