The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

Jack and his mother were poor had to sell the cow because she had nothing left to sell. Jack never helped her and only expressed hunger. He sells the cow to the old man in exchange for beans, but Jack ...

Once upon a time, there was a knight who bore a wyvern (a type of dragon) on his shield, and who one day was riding past Gloucester when he heard of a magical fairy mound. It was a place where tired ...

There was a time when fairy tales were much more than just bedtime stories. Actually, the fanciful tales that have enthralled generations of people have their roots in real historical events. Real ...

We tell stories to make sense of our world. Across time and across cultures, folk and fairy tales were passed down orally to ...