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Rapunzel, The Nettle Spinner, and Farmer Weatherbeard | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Red Fairy Book (1890)
On this week's Lang Fairy Tales episode we have another triple-bill - though these ones are all slightly wonky...
We begin with Rapunzel, a tale with its roots in ancient Persian mythology, although what the Langs do with it leaves a little to be desired!
Next up it's The Nettle Spinner, another Charles Deulin legend out of Flanders which seems to speak to the power of the Protestant work ethic in the face of villainy!
Last then comes Farmer Weatherbeard, a story drawn from Norse mythology that gets completely muddled in translation, missing the point of the original and focusing not on the…
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