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A Few Fun Facts About This Project
- The Brothers Grimm are the most-represented source — Chapters 1, 4, 6, and 19 all draw from their 1812 collection, Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
- Oldest source: The Ballad of Hua Mulan (Chapter 18) — roughly 1,500 years old.
- Newest source: The Chronicles of Prydain (Chapter 22), published 1964.
- Only Shakespeare in the project: The Lion King (Chapter 17), based on Hamlet.
- Only story with no confirmed original manuscript: Aladdin (Chapter 20) — no Arabic manuscript has ever been found.