About Fairy Tales

Fairy tales typically contain magical characters such, as fairies, goblins, and elves, as well as enchantments and in fact weren't originally thought of as strictly as children's stories, but were folklore. The usually formula for the stories involves royalty, enchantment, and usually a happy ending. In many cultures illness, famine, and catastrophic events were blamed on demons and witches who were perceived as real. The fairy tales then may have merge into legendary narratives and believed by both the teller and the audience as being factorial. It is important to realize that the majority of fairy tales, seldom involve fairies at all, but involve around enchanted forest, talking animals, witches, trolls, maidens in distress and of course,
the brave hero.

During the nineteenth century, fairy tales became associated as children's literature, however they were originally tales adults told for entertainment. Fairy tales were a part or an oral tradition of story telling that was past down from generation to generation, by word of mouth and not by the written word. Some believe that the fairy tales were actually started as a means of relaying news events that occurred in other kingdoms or villages, which become embellished as the event was retold
over and over again. If this were the case, then it is reasonable to believe that some of these stories did hold some ounce of truth. For instance, it was not unheard of at the time for a woman to die in childbirth and her husband to remarry. If the new wife desired that her children alone inherit her husbands estate, then the new wife could arrange for the man's first born to suffer an unfortunate event, such as the case in Snow White, and of course Cinderella. However, because there is no historical evidence linking any events that occurred in any fairy tale to
an actual occurrence, then we can believe that these stories evolved out of tales of entertainment and not actual events.

Over the years, the original fairy tales have been altered so that there is always a happy ending, the villain is always punished and most of the violence has been removed, making them more appropriate for children. An example of is would be Hans
Christian Andersen's tale of the Little Mermaid. In the original telling of the story, the little mermaid did not marry the prince, and was instead told to kill him in order that she could return as a mermaid, for the prince has married someone else. Instead, the little mermaid spared the prince's life, sealing her own fait.
The modern version of the story, the little mermaid, and the prince married, and lived happy ever after, with the evil sea witch being destroyed.

According to a survey taken in the United States by 1,200 children the most popular fairy tales in 2004 were: Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Hansel and Gretel; Rapunzel;
Little Red Riding Hood; The Bremen Town Musicians; The stories of the Arabian Nights, especially Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
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