why are you most likely to find stereotypes in legends and fairy tales?

Answer 1

What reason does the author of your text give?

Answer 2

If your text materials attempt to deal with this topic, that's your first resource. Do some more reading here, but I'm not sure any of these articles will fully address the question of "why".

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Answer 3

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