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@myril wrote:
Interesting
One little thing: “The Princess Who was hidden Underground” is not a German fairy tale (A. Lang wasn’t detailed about his resources, unfortunately.) It seems to be a Greek fairy tale, found the text in a German book about Greek and Albanian Fairy Tales from 1918. For those able to read German: Johann Georg von Hahn: Griechische und Albanesische Märchen
It doesn’t say though, that it was a sunken castle. The father of the princess build a castle underground and locked his beautiful daughter up in there.
Don’t remember so far any tales about sunken castles on land, only tales of sunken villages, towns, and castle in lakes or in the sea. Maybe something from “One Thousand and One Nights”, Aladdin, Sindbad?
Concering Anita: In their podcast Horowitz/Kitsis tell, that the title of the episode was inspired by the song “Child of the Moon” by the Rolling Stones, released as B-Track of Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in 1968. The design of the den too was a reference to the Stones, as they say, the Stones went in 1967 on a trip to Morroco. The actress and designer Anita Pallenberg had a relationship with Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones, which ended on that trip to Morroco, she left with Keith Richard, and they stayed a couple for 12 years. Maybe just a coincidence, but makes me think, that the name of Ruby’s mother could be a nod to Anita Pallenberg. (and then there is Ruby Tuesday, another Stones’ song … should hear some Rolling Stones again, haven’t done for a while)
Please click on this link http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Who_Was_Hidden_Underground and it says a German Fairy Tale not Greek… and also on that article says:
The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground
The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book.[1]
Synopsis
A king had three sons and divided his property. The older two squandered theirs, but the youngest son was prudent, and became rich. He had an underground castle built, killed the architect, imprisoned his daughter there, and decreed that whoever could find her would marry her, but whoever tried and failed would die. Many did die.
and here is another link about that tale
http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/054.htm
So i was talking about that castle he built underground, was my first theory
so i found the other story about the Cave&Castle is another theory…which over the time people could build a town above the castle without knowing that there was a castle and with the weight of the new city, the castle possibly sank by itself…