Posted Apr. 18, 2016 at 6:00 PM

Three Rivers Community College’s Booker T. DeVaughn Lecture Series will host “Wired For Weirdness: How Fairy Tales Work Their Magic,” a guest lecture by professor Maria Tatar, at noon April 20 in the college’s multipurpose room, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich.

The free talk will focus on the origins of fairy tales in oral storytelling cultures. It will address cultural repetition compulsion when it comes to “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Sleeping Beauty.”

Tatar is the John L. Loeb professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard University.

The event is sponsored by the Three Rivers College Foundation and Dime Bank.