![]() ![]() It stopped only when the beautiful woman was thrown into the burning mountain. ![]() “Stories,” Gaiman said, “teach us how the world is put together and the rules of living in the world, and they come in an attractive enough package that we take pleasure from them and want to help them propagate.” Northwest coast native Americans have a tale about a beautiful woman and young man whose forbidden love was punished by the earth shaking, and black ash on snow, and finally fire coming from a mountain, killing many people. The most popular version of the Cinderella story (which may have originated long ago in China) has kept the gloriously unlikely glass slipper introduced by a careless French telling. They lose uninteresting elements but hold on to the most compelling bits or even add some. They make it from medium to medium-from oral to written to film and beyond. ![]() The ones that last, Gaiman said, outcompete other stories by changing over time. ![]()
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