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The third paragraph to your introduction advises us that "Well, there are hundreds of Red Riding Hoods out there. Some differ by small yet important details (like the content of the girl's basket or the profession of the rescuer), others add or omit one of the characters, and there are the stories with just a roughly borrowed plot used for a seemingly completely different story."

Is the above-mentioned borrowing specific to a certain culture, place or time?

No! I am in the middle of the festival season. As soon as I can, I will get writing again.
Thanks for asking

Blue has many meanings (like all colors), in this case it fits out-of-this-world, heavenly, and melancholic feelings.

Madam Barbot de Villeneuve's version is much longer, with six brothers and six sisters. It was not written as an educational tool but more as a fairy tale, typical for the 17th century with numerous descriptions and decorative elements. Such fairy tales were primarily intended as the basics for plays in courts (with pauses, songs, etc.).

Beauty has a background, so fashionable dress can still fit. On the other hand, the story clearly states that the castle was loaded with dresses for nobility. So, in her case, everything goes.

Snow White is an example of riches-to-rags-to-riches, Hansel and Gretel is rags-to-riches. Yes, I am working on that.

Yes. There is a now dessicated valley which local people claim to be the site of Eden, but I cannot recall its name.

I have not seen the film.

Your introduction describes the Garden of Eden as in modern Iran.

Is there any tradition about where in modern Iran?

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day question.

Fire is the means that elementary-school and Sunday-school teachers invoked for divine-impelled worldwide destruction.

Might you have seen the film The coming convergence? The latter movie might have suggested that all the wrong human choices, such as peacetime violence and wartime massacres, muster up an end after we all perish and therefore which we will not know.

Raisins are very common in tea cakes, but there could be other fruits, such as blueberries and bilberries.

The practice of the sacraments evolved over the years. Baptism and Eucharist stem from the early church, and laying on of hands for confirmation and Holy Orders is found in the New Testament. The sacrament of the sick is mentioned in the letter of James. Matrimony was recognized as a sacrament later, and confession is the latest of them all, arising in the middle of the first millennium.

There is no set figure for width, but they are generally v shaped. I would estimate a width of about twenty feet at the top to be the norm.

Yes,but I cannot name a document. Sorry.

We are not at Tatton Park for long, about ten days, and it is Summer rather than Fall. So we do not need the leaf blowers.