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fairy tales themselves were
Jack Zipes • Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales
rewritten and watered down with moralistic endings, or they began to serve a compensatory cultural function.
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


the old stories haunt us still: religious tales where the women are fickle, or weak, or cursed; fairy tales where the men are white knights and swashbuckling saviors, bad boys and lone wolves, warriors and kings. And where the women are ugly hags and scullery maids, or sleeping beauties and girls locked in towers.