Let Your Child Discover the Morals behind Every Fairy and Witch Tale
>> May 16, 2012
Everyone of us have been brought up
by listening to stories of fantasy world featuring a charming prince, princess,
witches, elves, goblins, dwarfs, mermaids etc. These characters not only made
our life colourful and beautiful, but also taught us to see life in various
forms. However, short stories mostly involve superficial and imaginative, and
do not contain any references of the legends and religious epics. They are purely
fictitious which aims at entertaining children and sustaining their
innocence. But, as it should be all the tales
begin with a fixed scenario, “once upon a time...” and have happy endings that
goes like, “and they lived happily ever after”.
These short stories are commonly
referred to as Fairy tales, i.e small or short stories of fairies. The
characters of these tales are simple and imaginative and are not only
associated with children, but also approach adults in various ways. Initially, such tales
were intended for the entertainment purpose of adults, but since 20th century
they became associated with children's literature. They were altered and
brought together in such a manner that children could also read them. The
sexual references, violent acts, greedy witches etc were eliminated from the
version written by children. The tale of
two brothers is considered to be an oldest known written tale of ancient times.
Other short stories that direct
towards religion and legends involving actual times, place and with actual
people are not considered as FairyTales for Children. They are basically written down with an aim to develop
the morals and actual understanding of life. Folktales are found in various
forms and are available in all languages in the world. These are also available in the form of short
films such as The snow white and the seven dwarf was the first movie to be
released in 1937 based on the folktales with special effects and animations
that mesmerized everyone.
List of most popular authors and
their works
Many authors have brought about
relevant changes and modification in the stories that already existed from
ancient times to make them suitable for children and compiled them in a book of
different version, Every author has its own version of tales. Some of the great
works have been listed below:
1.
Book
of British Tales by Alan Garner
2.
Fairy
Tales by E. E. Cummings
3.
Grimm's
Fairy Tales
4.
Italian
Folktales by Italo Calvino
5.
Madame
d'Aulnoy
6.
Norwegian
Folktales by Peter Christen and Jorgen Moe
7.
Narodnye
russkie skazki by Alexander Afanasyev
8.
Charles
Perrault
9.
Panchatantra
(India, 3rd century BCE)
10. Popular Tales of the West Highlands
by John Francis Campbell
