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- Are fairy tales based on true stories? Fairy tales are typically works of fiction, although they may be inspired by elements of real-life events or experiences.
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- Sleeping Beauty. Almost all modern-day fairy tales are based on darker stories from centuries past. But arguably no original versions are as bleak as that of Sleeping Beauty.
- Pinocchio. Disney’s 1940 movie Pinocchio was based on an 1881 serial penned by Carlo Collodi. As you might have guessed, the screenwriters took the general premise of the Italian’s story for their animated feature film, though of course they left out a few choice elements.
- The Little Mermaid. Disney’s version of this classic fairy tale was a huge hit and loved by children and adults the world over. And surely a large part of its success was down to the fact that the cartoon movie left out big chunks of the version penned by Hans Christian Anderson many years before.
- The Ugly Duckling. The story of a young duckling who is bullied for being ugly but then transforms into a beautiful swan is famous around the world. Or at least a sanitized version of it is.
Apr 2, 2013 · Maybe not…but maybe there's some truth behind those fairy tales, after all. Fairy tales have been popular with children for thousands of years. They're usually short stories that feature fantasy characters based in folklore, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, mermaids, gnomes, giants and dwarves.
- Belle. Belle is only called Belle in the Disney versions of Beauty and the Beast; she’s just straight-up Beauty in the original. Then again, given that Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s “Belle et La Bête,” which published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les Contes Marins, was written in French, the character’s name probably would have been Belle anyway, so… do with that what you will.
- Rapunzel. The history of “Rapunzel” as a story is actually quite convoluted. Although the world is generally the most familiar with the version published by the Brothers Grimm in their 1812 collection Children’s and Household Tales, author and editor Terri Windling (who is wonderful, and you should absolutely read her stuff) traced it back much farther in her essay “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair”: The Grimms took it from Friedrich Schulz’s version, which was published in 1790; Schulz had taken his version from the 1698 French tale “Persinette” by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force; and she had taken it from “Petrosinella,” a 1634 Italian story by Giambattista Basile.
- Jasmine. So, here’s something interesting: Although most of us are probably aware that Disney’s Aladdin was based off of the The One Thousand And One Nights story of the same name, that story was actually not part of the original Arabic text.
- Ariel. There isn’t a historical personage on whom Ariel, aka the Little Mermaid, was based — but Disney’s version of the tale is quite different from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 Danish fairytale.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The fairy tale is based on the tragic life of Margarete von Waldeck, a 16th century Bavarian noblewoman. Margarete grew up in Bad Wildungen, where her brother used small children to work his copper mine.
- Rapunzel. Rapunzel draws upon an early Christian story. In the third century A.D. a prosperous pagan merchant, living in Asia Minor, so adored his beautiful daughter he forbade her to have suitors.
- Bluebeard. Perrault wove his story around Conomor the Cursed, the Breton chief who had been forewarned he would be slain by his own son. As soon as one of his wives became pregnant, he murdered her.
- Hansel and Gretel. The tale of Hansel and Gretel could have been told to keep children from wandering off. But during the great famine of 1315-1317 A. D. that crushed most of continental Europe and England, disease, mass death, infanticide and cannibalism increased exponentially.
Sep 23, 2019 · Fairy tales are stories that have been passed down through generations, many of which have inspired some of the most beloved movies of all time. However, some of these magical stories might...
Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Legends are perceived as real within their culture; fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers ...
Oct 21, 2014 · Scholars of fairy tales distinguish between genuine folk tales and literary fairy tales; the first are customarily anonymous and undatable, the latter signed and dated, but the history of...
