| ▲ | altmanaltman an hour ago | |
Would most kids around the world even know Aladdin if it wasn't for the Disney copyrighted movie? | ||
| ▲ | razakel a minute ago | parent | next [-] | |
Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the Sailor were well-known long before Disney. There's even a major Chinese company named after one! | ||
| ▲ | the_af 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Very likely yes. I was very familiar with this story, and other "Arabian" tales, well before Disney made the original animated version. We also had Grimm's fairy tales, which I loved reading, and nowadays am reading to my daughter, to her delight. Yes, with beheadings and child-eating monsters and witches. | ||