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The original fairy tales were for adults who believed in fairies. They were often brief, and tied to a specific time and place. The story had no moral lesson. Rather, they read like a sighting or local news to the superstitious folk. They were passed orally from generation to generation, not written down. The tales often had sad endings; such was the penalty for dealing with the fairy folk.
Later fairy tales were about princes and pricesses, combat, adventure, society, and romance. Fairies had a secondary role. Moral lessons and happy endings were more common, and the villain was always punished. In the modern era, fairy tales were altered, usually with violence removed, so they could be read to children.
Sometimes fairy tales are simply miraculous entertainments, but often they are disguised morality tales. This is true for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Collection, and much of the drily witty, dead-pan, social criticism beneath the surface of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, which influenced Roald Dahl.
The fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the " Arabian Nights" collection of magical tales, in antiquity: Cupid and PsycheThe tale of Cupid and Psyche first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass written in the second century CE. Apuleius probably used an earlier folk-tale as the basis for his story, modifying it to s, Bel and the DragonThe tale of Bel and the Dragon forms chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel''. It is dated to the late 2nd century B. and accounted apocryphal in Protestant Bibles. The chapter is formed of three independent narratives, which place the culture-hero Daniel at th. Fairy tales resurfaced in literature in the 17th century, with the Neapolitan tales of Giambattista BasileGiambattista Basile (born 1575 (1566?) died February 23, 1632) was the Conte di Torronea, a soldier and government official, who is known for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales titled Lo cunto de li cunti ( Neapolitan for The Story of Storie and the later Contes of Charles PerraultCharles Perrault ( January 12, 1628 May 16, 1703) was a French author. Charles Perrault was born in Paris, France to a wealthy bourgeois family. He attended the best schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service. He took part, who fixed the forms of Sleeping BeautySleeping Beauty La Belle aux bois dormant is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mere l'Oye ("Mother Goose Tales"). Giambattista Basile had earlier published the tale in the Pentamerone in 1634. and CinderellaGustave Dore's illustration for Cendrillon ''This article is about the fairy tale. In philatelic usage, a cinderella is a label resembling a regular postage stamp, but that is not valid for prepayment of postage: see artistamp. Cinderella is also a hard r.
An extensive collection of EuropeanFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se fairy tales were published by Andrew Lang in a series of books: The Red Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, and so forth. These provide some excellent examples of the genre.
According to a 2004 poll of 1,200 childen by UCI Cinemas , the most popular fairy tales are: