When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

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