We are living out and living with the images and theme motifs of Cinderella or living in opposition to the story and the images that it has left with us. The themes and subplots for the life we live as adults are consciously and unconsciously derived from the stories we have grown up with as children, the stories we have concocted for ourselves as adults, but these stories are always mediated by the stories we no longer tell, the stories of the imaginal figures left us from fairy tales and myths. There is myth in our stories. When we are telling, talking, tattling, teaching, we come closer to myth, we become mythmakers. Myths are the ancient pre-histories of the stories that reappear in our lives.
Fairy tales are the folk expression of myth.
They are stories with a mythic dimension. As we gain insight into our own stories we can see how they embody the stories of others, the sacred stories of our culture, as well as media stories, institutional stories, and cover stories of one sort or another.