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

When fairy tales were first written down by the Grimm Brothers, there was no way to tell how immersive, grand and spectacular the folk stories would appear on movie screens. Legends that fascinated ...

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 ...

Every week we ask you a different question. Hear what people in London say, then join the conversation! What's your favourite fairy tale? Join the conversation. What's your favourite fairy tale? Use ...

You grew up hearing fairy tales that began with "Once upon a time..." and usually ended with a royal couple riding off into the sunset. But what happens when someone decides to mess with happily ever ...

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 ...

Fairy tales and folklore come from a variety of sources, changing as they are told and retold. And some of these tales have been inspired by real historical figures, whose lives either formed the ...

If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney, or some other sweetened retelling, the dark culinary themes in the 19th-century versions told by the two German brothers, Jacob and ...

In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of never-published fairy- and folktales collected by the 19th-century folklorist ...

Grimm Brothers fairy tales, in their original telling, were actually pretty ...um, grim. Now a new translation, hailed as a blow against censorship, is proving it anew. In yet another example of ...