Imagine dusting Cinderella's glass slipper for fingerprints, or analyzing the structural integrity of Hansel and Gretel's gingerbread house using real world engineering principles.

It's Law and Order meets the Brothers Grimm. This concept is Fairytale Forensics. Think like criminal psychology, engineering, and investigative journalism all applied to these stories we think we know. It's less about taking the moral of the story at face value and more about really digging into the why. Why do these characters do what they do? What happens when we hold these fantastical events up to the light of reality using actual forensic techniques.

It's about grounding the fantastical in something tangible, encouraging us to ask, could this actually happen, even within a world of magic and make believe?

The podcast creator, who's a journalist, is very focused on the mechanics of the stories. So not just what happens, but the how and the why it happens.

The creator used Google's Notebook LM to generate the voices and podcast discussion based on his book, Fairytale Forensics.

A forensic analysis of the Snow White fairytale. We'll examine the Queen's all-seeing mirror, a device so advanced it surpasses modern engineering. How does it know who is fairest of them all? Could it involve quantum dot displays or even holographic projections ? Plus, we'll analyze the poison apple, exploring if the Queen used a substance like atropa belladonna , a toxic plant known to mimic death. We'll also touch on the power imbalance between Snow White and the dwarfs, questioning their seemingly altruistic offer of domestic labor for shelter.

Get ready for a Fairytale Forensics deep dive into Jack and the Beanstalk, but, not the version you heard as a kid. Jack, although traditionally portrayed as a naive and unfortunate child, demonstrates a surprising level of cunning and even ruthlessness in his interactions with the Giant and his wife. Jack as the Anti-Hero.