Ruth Padel on a collection that attempts to put folk tales in their place. 'Today," said the Abbé Fénelon in 1714, "the most serious men enjoy fables; even fairy tales! We willingly become children ...

Prof. Armando Maggi, PhD’95, began his Humanities Day 2011 lecture with a clip from the opening scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1938, it was the first fairy tale to be turned ...

“Nix Nought Nothing” and many, many more. Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections from other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls, or a short comical sketch.

People enjoy legends, fables and fairy tales because they take us to different worlds, make us think about who we are, our values, and tell us something about the human condition. Many elders in Eeyou ...

For my money, this is without a doubt the story of the week. For years we’ve been hearing how the Grimm fairy tales were a lot more horror-based and bloody than the sanitized versions we’ve been ...

Children around the world love fairy tales. These stories of magic and monsters, handsome princes and damsels in distress, capture the imagination and open the mind to possibilities. To grown-ups, ...

People enjoy legends, fables and fairy tales because they take us to different worlds, make us think about who we are, our values, and tell us something about the human condition. Many elders in Eeyou ...

Trung Le Nguyen’s “The Magic Fish” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Little Mermaid” recast the classics. By Jen Wang THE MAGIC FISH By Trung Le Nguyen THE LITTLE MERMAID By Jerry Pinkney Like most American ...

Angela Carter wasn't the first person to retool traditional fairy tales for a modern, post-Freudian audience, but since The Bloody Chamber emerged in 1979, all semi-serious treatments of such stories ...