What is the difference between folklore and fairy tales




















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Kids are tough. Give them the real story. I know the story of Stone Soup but I never included it in my units because the lower grades did. Mamacita , Mar 2, Joined: Oct 30, Messages: 1, Likes Received: 1. Fairy tales are fanciful and imaginary stories about people, fairies, animals or things who have magical powers. Similarity: Every story has a problem and complications before the problem is resolved. Difference: Folk tales require that people use their brains to solve their problems while fairy tales require that people have magic to help them.

Joined: Apr 7, Messages: 4, Likes Received: 0. Mar 3, Fairy Tale Fable. Miss W , Mar 3, You must log in or sign up to reply here. A fair tale, on the other hand, also takes its roots from oral tradition, but involve magical creatures such as dragons, ogres, witches, and unicorns. While a folk tale derives its story from real-life phenomena, fairytales are made up.

Simply put, a folk tale is a story with a basis in events that are true-to-life, while fairytales are works of fiction. Both fairytales and folk tales are instructive; they leave the reader or listener with a few lessons.

They also warn readers about the possible outcomes of a particular behavior or attitude. These stories tend to revolve around a major character that experiences pain and suffering but survives thanks to finding a way to make things right.

Traditional folk tales and fairytales are made for entertainment purposes, but they can sometimes be a bit scary; these makes them effective in instilling manners and values in youngsters.

The major character reaches resolution in a different way in these two types of literature. In folk tales, the characters resolve conflict using their human capacities.

The characters are usually based on societal stereotypes and can take on the guise of a stepmother, evil stepsisters, kind, loving fathers, fair maidens, etc. The conflict then arises in a human vs. Thus, the characters survive through carefully planned strategies that reflect real-life situations. The princesses in fairytales are usually helpless; they can only be freed with the help of fairies and other magical creatures. The conflict takes the form of human vs.

In a nutshell, in folk tales, conflict usually arises between the major characters and the minor characters, and is actively resolved by both. In fairytales, major characters are are simply passive and subject to sufferings usually resolved with the help of the minor characters, who usually happen to be fairies and other mythical beings.

Jul 14, PM. Yeah, in English we have to be content with "literary fairy tale" and "folk fairy tale. Beauty And The Beast took a lot of fairy tale motifs and reworked them into a very literary and long tale -- and redactors pared it down, and it passed back into the folk tale. But what distinguishes fairy tales from other tales told by the folk is a lot harder to define. Vladimir Propp , in his famous study of fairy tales, resorted to defining them as the tales that fell into certain range of Aarne-Thompson tale types.

Most have magic, but not all, for instance Cap O'Rushes. As a rule they are not tied down to any historical events or locations those are legends and they do not explain anything of how the world works those are myths. Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference.

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