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valerieb1254 | 19:38 Sun 23rd Oct 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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This Question was asked yesterday on film & tv. site.I have been on google and everything else I can think of.It is really doing my head in. OK Now the question. Which 19th century Russian Folktale was Tim Burtons film "The Corpse Bride" based on.Hope someone can come up with the answer.

Val.

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found this on google

"'Corpse Bride'" isn't roughly 'based on a Russian folktale' but a knowing thievery from S.Y. Agnon and Sholom Aleichem, who in turn made their careers converting centuries of Jewish mythology into fiction."

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19:47 Sun 23rd Oct 2005
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In the original folktale, "The Finger," the "corpse bride" in question is not a deceased woman............

Check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton's_Corpse_Bride

19:50 Sun 23rd Oct 2005
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Brilliant ..Thanks very much to you both. Can rest easy now.

Val.

19:58 Sun 23rd Oct 2005

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