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fairy tales themselves were
Jack Zipes • Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales
The term ‘folk-tale’ implies an adult audience; fairy-tale, a story for children. The distinction is familiar now, but in the past it scarcely existed.
Charles Perrault • The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)
fairy tales themselves were
Jack Zipes • Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
rewritten and watered down with moralistic endings, or they began to serve a compensatory cultural function.