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Géza Róheim, Ph.D. 'Fairy Tale and Dream', pp. 394–403.
In this posthumous publication two fairy stories, Little Red Riding Hood and the Tale of Fearless John, are analysed in terms of a new view of mythology and the folk tale. 'It seems that dreams and myths are not merely similar but that a large part of mythology is actually derived from dreams. In other words we can not only apply the standard technique of dream interpretation in analysing a fairy tale but actually can think of tales and myths as having arisen from a dream which a person dreamed and then told to others, who retold it again, perhaps elaborated in accord with their own dreams.'