FAIRY TALES
What is a Fairy Tale?
A simple narrative typically of folk
origin dealing with supernatural beings.
What Fairy Tales Do
You Know?
CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAIRY TALE
**A fairy Tale may not have all of these**
•SPECIAL WORDS (once upon a time…happily ever after)
•GOOD CHARACTER
•EVIL CHARACTER
•HELPER CHARACTER
•ROYALTY/CASTLE
•MAGIC OCCURS
•Things happen in groups of Three,
seven, or twelve
• 3 Bears (Goldilocks)
• 3 Fairies (Sleeping Beauty)
• 3 Pigs (Their Story)
• 3 Nights of the Ball (Cinderella)
• 7 Dwarves (Snow White)
• 12 dancing princesses
• 12 o’clock midnight (Cinderella)
Here’s One You Probably Know:
The Princess and the Pea
ONCE upon a time there was a prince
who wanted to marry a princess; but
she would have to be a real princess. He
traveled all over the world to find one,
but nowhere could he get what he
wanted. There were princesses enough,
but it was difficult to find out whether
they were real ones. There was always
something about them that was not as it
should be. So he came home again and
was sad, for he would have liked very
much to have a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm came on;
there was thunder and lightning, and the
rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a
knocking was heard at the city gate, and the
old king went to open it. It was a princess
standing out there in front of the gate. But,
good gracious! what a sight the rain and the
wind had made her look. The water ran
down from her hair and clothes; it ran down
into the toes of her shoes and out again at
the heels. And yet she said that she was a
real princess.
"Well, we'll soon find that out,"
thought the old queen. But she said
nothing, went into the bed-room, took
all the bedding off the bedstead, and
laid a pea on the bottom; then she took
twenty mattresses and laid them on the
pea, and then twenty down beds on top
of the mattresses. On this the princess
had to lie all night. In the morning she
was asked how she had slept.
"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have
scarcely closed my eyes all night.
Heaven only knows what was in the
bed, but I was lying on something hard,
so that I am black and blue all over my
body. It's horrible!" Now they knew that
she was a real princess because she
had felt the pea right through the
twenty mattresses and the twenty
down beds.
Nobody but a real princess could be
as sensitive as that. So the prince
took her for his wife, for now he
knew that he had a real princess;
and the pea was put in the museum,
where it may still be seen, if no one
has stolen it.
The End
HERE are some fairy
tale endings you may
not know…
Snow White
And the mirror answered-"O Lady Queen, though fair ye be, The young Queen is fairer to
see."
Oh! How angry the wicked woman was then, and so terrified, too,
that she scarcely knew what to do. At first she thought she would not
go to the wedding at all, but then she felt that she could not rest until
she had seen the young Queen. No sooner did she enter the palace
than she recognized little Snow-White, and could not move for terror.
Then a pair of red-hot iron shoes was brought into the room with
tongs and set before her, and these she was forced to put on and to
dance in them until she could dance no longer, but fell down dead, and
that was the end of her.
…and they lived happily ever after?
Cinderella
And when her wedding with the prince was
appointed to be held, the false sisters came, hoping to
curry favor and to take part in the festivities. So as the
bridal procession went to the church, the eldest
walked on the right side and the younger on the left,
and the pigeons picked out an eye of each of them.
And as they returned the elder was on the left side and
the younger on the right, and the pigeons picked out
the other eye of each of them. And so they were
condemned to go blind for the rest of their days
because of their wickedness and falsehood.
ASSIGNMENT
Part 1T
1.
Think about what fairy tales you know.
2. Find an example of a fairy tale that has been
changed over the years (movie, book, comic,
etc.) in one or more of these ways:
-Characters (P.O.V)
Example:
-Setting
The True Story of
the Three Little
-Theme
Pigs
-Story
Web Sites to Visit:
Part 2
**Go to one of the following websites, or another of
your choosing, read 2 stories, and complete the
fairy tale chart for each one.
• http://www.childrenstory.com/tales
• http://www.grimmstories.com
• http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
ENJOY!