It’s looks like “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm,” the two fairy-tale-based series this year might have some new material to mine. According to the Guardian (UK), 500 new fairy tales have been discovered in Regensburg, Germany. The had been locked away in an archive for more than 150 years. Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, a local historian in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz, published the stories in the 1850s, roughly the same time the Brothers Grimm were collecting their tales. He had spent decades collecting them into a book called Aus der Oberpfalz – Sitten und Sagen, but the book did not gain any following. Oberpfalz cultural curator Erika Eichenseer found the 500 tales. Many do not appear in any other collection and some are variations on known fairy tales. One of the tales is a story of a “maiden Read more…