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In the scholarly debate about the origins of fairy tales, "the latest
clash [is] over a new claim that, far from being passed down through
an oral tradition, fairy tales actually have their history in print."
Stony Brook University professor Ruth B. Bottigheimer argues that
"folk invention and transmission of fairy tales has no basis in
verifiable fact."
