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Fairy Tales

You're Dead to Me

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What Is a Fairy Tale?

Fairy tales came out of an oral story telling culture, and often they were quite baggy. But the grims had the genius to create what marina warner refers to as the compact form of the fairy tale. The germans call fairy tales mastion which i think captures the genre in much better ways than a five point check list.

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