This week, on Tales we return to Nuremberg, Bavaria: Last month I warned you the Tale of Kaspar Hauser is no fairytale.. This time we ask, what if it is more like a fairytale than we take for granted - just we often misunderstand those old kids’ stories? Part Two of a Two parter.  

Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception.   

Apologies all, this has been held up by me catching a nasty nasal infection that has taken weeks to clear… For a while, at least I think we should be back on a fortnightly schedule - or close to it. 

 

Sources Include:

Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von Feuerbach The Great Pretenders by Jan Bonderson Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts

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