Ray McCarthy on Nostr: npub1sdkl2…r0kgj I think Washington Irving "mined" a lot of folktales brought to ...

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I think Washington Irving "mined" a lot of folktales brought to New York by Dutch (or sometimes Germans).
Rip Van Winkle as well as Sleepy Hollow.

Then now there is Disney, a serial wrecker of folktales and plagiariser. Washington Irving wasn't so bad in comparison.