Traditional tales have survived for centuries. But what have they been carrying?

The Old Stories explores the hidden symbolism within familiar tales — forests, wolves, witches, houses, journeys, hunger, danger, death and the strange repetition of threes.

It asks whether the stories children have inherited are more than entertainment: whether they are maps of fear, growth, relationship and becoming, carrying patterns human beings recognised long before we had psychological language for them.

What did we once know through story that we have forgotten how to say directly?