How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages

@NomeDaBarbarian tweeted this really interesting thread of the ways fairy tales and stories start in different languages. It’s not always just “Once upon a time…” like you may think. These are neat and some are quite poetic:

How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages
How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages
How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages

How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages
How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages
How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages
How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages

Here is the “Once upon a time” Wikipedia link.


How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages

Source: @NomeDaBarbarian

(via: I steal tweets)

2 thoughts on “How Fairy Tales Start In All Different Languages

  1. I like the one reported by Laura Bohannon in her article “Shakespeare in the Bush” (from the Tiv in West Africa): “Not yesterday, not yesterday, but long ago, a thing occurred.”

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