https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880?s=19
No culture but the culture pushed on you by gigantic companies trying to sell you merch. Superman v Batman is exactly the same as traditions that have been evolving naturally for thousands of years. Buying a Spiderman backpack is equivalent to knocking on wood or leaving a shot of vodka out in the woods for the leshiy. In Ant Man's name, amen.
I was about to say the Kazakhs stole it from the Grimm brothers - I also read it as one of those Grimm stories they never told you about as a kid. Would be curious to hear about actual Kazakh tales.
On the subject of Jew-hating folklore, lest the Germans get too singled out... I'm told some of the 1001 (Arabian) Night stories end with a Jewish girl converting to Islam and cutting off her father's head as a show of rejecting her religion.
There's also a Russian folk tale about a (Christian) soldier walking home asking to sleep over with a Jewish couple, sharing their bed and trying to fuck the wife under the sheet, until she realizes the cock is uncircumcised and screams, and he blames his cock for acting on its own and pleads ignorance. (Though there's a version of the story where no Judaism is mentioned - it's just nondenominationally rapey.)
I threw in Kazakhstan since it's indistinguishable from a story Borat would tell. The closest thing I know to a Kazakh folk tale is that according to legend, the first Turk was born to and raised by a wolf. This is why wolves are a Turkic nationalist symbol.
The Turks obviously stole that one from the Romans ;-)