Preface

            

Preface

             A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale is a folk genre that takes the

form of a short story. Such stories typically feature entities such as dragons with three, seven or more heads, fairies, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. The term is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and, at least in recent centuries, mostly relates to children's literature.

              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; fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unlike legends and epics, fairy tales usually do not contain more

than superficial references to religion and to actual places, people, and

events; they take place "once upon a time"

rather than in actual times. 

            Fairy tales occur both in oral and in literary form. Many of today's fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in

particularly difficult to trace because only the literary forms can survive.

multiple cultures around the world. The history of the fairy tale is

Still, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, such stories may date back thousands of years, some to the Bronze Age more than 6,500 years

ago. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written

today.

          Folk creations occupy a particularly important place in universal literature, but it

is not yet known exactly where and when it occurred. The fairy tale is an old folk creation that appeared as an expression of the desires of ordinary

people to escape into a wonderful world where it is possible to fulfill any

part of a memory group that Jung collectively calls unconscious. Characters

dreams and where moral deviations are severely punished. Popular stories are (real or fabulous) are not individualized, they are simple, static;

antisense with negative characters, dominate a basic trait.

protagonists are archetypes of moral and physical perfection, characterized by

         As a literary species, fairy tales have very distant origins and they are lost in

history. Even though the fairytale appeared more than three thousand years ago,

as a folkloric genre, he was born in 1812, with the publication by the Grimm brothers

of the collection of German folk tales, in the volume titled Kinder-und

Hausmärchen.

         Why do we need stories? What does literature really want? It has a noble and delicate mission

equally: it wants to reach the heart of man, it wants and needs to create moods

and emotions. Since we are born till die, we need stories to live nicer, and

why not, make it easy to fall asleep!

          Here are some examples of Romanians fairy tales that have delighted and continue to charm even today the childhood of those who receive them joyfully in their

lives.