Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28486044-20160727075112/@comment-25936766-20160727213000

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: -Sinbad lived through his voyages.

-The route they have gone doesn't present any cautionary lessons that would be emphasized by a major apocolypse ending. -Wait, Simbad's adventures were fairy tales?

-Well, there's the whole "Grimm are attracted to negative emotions, and too much negativity will literally make them swoop down upon you and kill everyone" thing. Seems pretty cautionary, though not in the same way as, say, LRRH. Though both's messages boil down to "don't do this, it will end badly".

That said, I'd like to ask you something: How do you know which tales are cautionary tales, and which ones became cautionary tales? Many fairy tales are given aesops and messages, which they did not have originally, since they were simply tales with no message purposefully attached. Which can be seen in the fact that many tales with different versions are often given very different aesops by different people, even if the general tale remains the same.