The Ever-Changing Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We know the story of Goldilocks as that of a little blonde girl who invades the home of a bear family and gets away with it because she's so young and not at all dangerous like you'd expect a home intruder to be. Besides, she's the protagonist. But it wasn't that way with earlier versions.  

The earliest documented version of the story of the three bears was from 1831, when Eleanor Mure wrote about an old woman who went into the bears' home and drank milk instead of eating porridge. But a version that could be from an earlier tale starred a fox named Scrapefoot who ventured into the three bears' castle. When the protagonist was changed to a little girl, she was first called “Silver-hair.” However, the story of a home invasion may go back much further if you don't have to have three bears in it. Read about the evolution of the tale of the three bears at Mental Floss.

(Image credit: Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott)


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If I ever produced a video this funny, you can guarantee that I would promote my own website on it.

But even though my own children mispronounced words in the same funny way, I wouldn't put them on the internet doing it. They grow up too fast.

This is from an established mommyblogger with a good-sized following. I entertained the idea that this story is probably embellished and/or exaggerated, but probably has a grain of truth. And even if it is totally fake, I wouldn't care much, because it's still funny.

Anyway, she posted a followup in which she invites parents to share the odd names their kids give to toys, and has over 100 comments.

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2012/02/as-usual-just-when-i-think-im-sort-of.html
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Counter example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtvhvIJ4Z4

Equally "offensive" but a lot harder to argue that it's fake. And not a hint of an agenda.
The "video" from this post is just pictures with a funny caption and then saying they were made up by a child. And promoting a website.
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- It is promotion for a website (as was the first comment here curiously).

- "Designed" to cause a stir, go viral (or hope to), get attention.

- Video is trivially easy to make (but offers no proof whatsoever that it is real).

- Kids don't do that kind of thing, not to that extent.

- Unverifiable.

The whole thing just rubs me the wrong way, what can I say.
(But you're right that I just think this is fake, I am not 100% certain.)
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