Cumulative tales

Cumulative tales

Did you know that the very first tales were probably cumulative tales? Their aim was to count. An intuition confirmed by the etymology, since the verbs “to tell” and “to count” both come from the Latin computare.Cumulative tales could have...
Etiological Tales

Etiological Tales

“Pourquoi stories” “Why…” The need to know People never liked not knowing. They always want to know “Why?” something is as it is. More than that, people are constantly in the search for their identity, as a person, as a community, as a nation, etc. The etiological...