{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26_02/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The subject of today's lecture is a kind of principle or rule for the explanation of fairy tales and legends. In a wider sense this principle can be extended to the world of myths, and we will indicate in a few words how this can be done. Naturally it is impossible in one hour to specify exactly how one should satisfy a child today with the fairy story itself and then later, when the child is older, with the explanation of it. I would now rather try to clarify what should exist in the soul of the one who wishes to explain such stories, and what that person ought to know.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales","date":"1908-12-26","location":null,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/108/1908-12-26_02/p003","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"no_original_to_compare","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"identified_edition":"eLib","translator":"Hanna van Maltitz Regarding Higher Worlds","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA108/English/eLib/"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/108/1908-12-26_02/p003"}]}