Fairy tales are rooted in biblical patterns and serve as a more accessible way to convey deep cosmological meaning.

“But they were right in their insight that fairy tales are kind of, you could say, downstream from the Bible. That's the way that I understand them. They use a type of language which is similar to biblical stories, but they're more accessible and they're accessible to kids.”

Modern retellings of fairy tales have shifted from moral stories about responsibility to stories focused on self-empowerment and the avoidance of villainy.

“And then you fast forward to kind of the fairy tales as they're retold today. And now it's all kind of the same theme. It's al it's always some young girl who is becoming selfmpowered and never really has to face a villain.”