Portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales, numerous unique ebooks, illustrations, and a forum. ... SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales,

Bunce, John Thackray. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning with Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1878.

Although large numbers of literary fairy tales were written in 17th century France, most of the tales which are still told and retold now are far older in origin.

John Thackray Bunce, author of Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning (1878), says that "Celtic, Teutonic and Nordic myths echo the eternal and universal themes and vivid imagery found in sacred...

I. THE ORIGIN OF FAIRY TALES ... The origin of fairy tales is a question which has kept many very able scholars busy and which has not yet been settled to the satisfaction of many.

Fairy tales, also known as wonder tales or märchen (from the German), are a sub-genre of folktales involving ... Many informants from educated upper and middle classes (many Fr. origin)

the same in the tales that nurses tell to the little ones by the fireside on winter evenings, and in the songs that mothers sing to hush their babes to sleep; ... ORIGIN OF FAIRY STORIES.

This CLN Theme Page has links to two types of resources related to the study of Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales. ... Over 75 fairy/folk tales, organized by country or region of origin.

Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time and nearly everyone can remember being tucked-up in bed listening to Jack and the Giant Killer, Cinderella or one of the countless others.

Just when it seemed liked fairy tales might be a relatively recent trend in folklore (maybe only about 500 years old), a new theory/study emerges -- from biologists.