Fairy tales

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Chapters: Fairy tale, Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, List of fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty, List of Manning-Sanders tales by region, Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Fairy Tale Forest, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Mermaid, The Story of the Three Bears, Rapunzel, The Bloody Chamber, Hansel and Gretel, Thumbelina, The Tinderbox, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Snowman, Henny Penny, Bluebeard, The Gingerbread Man, The Nightingale, The King of the Golden River, Fire and Hemlock, Town Musicians of Bremen, The Shadow, German Fairy Tale Route, King Rother, The Three Princes of Serendip, French folklore, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tale of Two Brothers, The Most Incredible Thing, The Wild Swans, The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, The Fir-Tree, The Red Shoes, The Angel, The Frog Prince, Prince Prigio, Virgilius the Sorcerer, The Goose Girl, Le Bois des Vierges, Tatterhood, The Frog Princess, The Valiant Little Tailor, Prince Darling, The Swineherd, The King of England and his Three Sons, Once on a Time, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Elf Mound, The Flying Trunk, The Golden Key, Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box, Hop-o'-My-Thumb, Riquet with the Tuft, Mossycoat, Ole Lukøje, The Light Princess, The Blue Mountains, Year of the Fish, The Red Ettin, The Galoshes of Fortune, The Little Bull-Calf, The Norka, The Bear, Bedside Tales of Sultan, The Teapot, The Garden of Paradise, Little Daylight, The Frog Prince, Continued, Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, Mogarzea and his Son, The Goblin and the Grocer, The Three Army Surgeons, Blockhead Hans, Histoires ou contes du temps passé, The Fiend, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, Clever Hans, The Giant Turnip, The Hobyahs, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, Golden Treasure, The Woman Who Had No Shadow, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter, Alphege, or the Green Monkey. Excerpt: This is an incomplete list of fairy tales. Generally speaking this list includes only fantastic tales from oral folk traditions. Generally speaking, the authors listed below were either those who first wrote the fairy tale in question down or popularized it. Some tales listed as Charles Perrault's were in fact adapted from earlier Italian versions by Giambattista Basile, but in turn, some tales published by the Grimm Brothers were originally Perrault's stories. For stories with no clearly recognized region of origin, the region listed is the place where an oral tale was collected, or a literary tale written down. The date listed is in most cases the date of the first written version of the tale. See individual articles for details about authorship and origin. Fairy tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories thus designated explicitly refer to fairies. The stories may nonetheless be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy endin...