What's your favourite fairy tale? Every week we ask you a different question. Hear what people in London say, then join the conversation! Express English: 15 August 2011 ...

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, edited by Edwin Sidney Hartland, London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., LTD, [1890], pp. 35-44 Original Source of the Tale Tale Notes There are small variations ...

Fairy Tale Title The Black Bull of Norroway Fairy Tale Author (s)/Editor (s) Ernest Rhys Fairy Tale Illustrator (s) Common Tale Type The Search for the Lost Husband/The Animal as Bridegroom Tale ...

Veronica Schanoes is a writer and an associate professor in the department of English at Queens College, CUNY, where she specializes in fairy tales and children’s literature.

Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales reveals exactly how unsanitized and murderous these stories once were.

Nineteenth-century English writer James Robinson Planché, in his own time known for writing musical extravaganzas based upon fairy tales, particularly admired the works of Marie-Catherine le Jumel de ...

The original Grimm fairy tales were a lot different than you might remember.

A slew of new fairy tale films is on the way to your nearest cineplex, but the intended audience might not be what you'd think. Bob Mondello explains how these movies, like their audiences, are ...

Down and dirty fairy tales: How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys our Prince Charming myths The translator of a newly discovered trove of 150-year-old tales on the ...

This article explores ten anime characters whose stories are rooted in beloved fairy tales. From the mythical adventures of Journey to the West to the enchanting tales of The Little Mermaid, these ...