A fairy tale is a fictional story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of …

For Freud, fairy tales reveal unconscious fantasies like those in dreams. The psychoanalytic approach is most fully developed in a study by Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and …

There may be magic with giants, elves, talking animals, witches or fairies. Fairy tales have a problem that needs to be solved. It often takes three tries to solve the problem. Fairy tales have happy …

Work with definition of “fairy”—supernatural being, not necessarily diminutive (though that is the modern use). Modern use mostly from English literary tradition.

ure gold. But alas! As the fairies were about to seat themselves at the table, there came into the hall a very old fairy who ha not been in-vited. She had left the kingdom fifty years be-fore and had not been …

In the Supplement, fairy-tale is recorded since the year 1750, and its leading sense is said to be (a) a tale about fairies, or generally a fairy legend; with developed senses, (b) an unreal or incredible …

Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German philologists whose collection “Kinder- und Hausmarchen,” known in English as “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” is a timeless literary masterpiece. …