IN bringing together this collection of tales Miss Fleming has cast her net wide. Japan, China, India, North America, Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, and the British Isles, to name only some of ...

The Union government’s recent initiative to bring out a translation tool for tribal languages also offers a translated collection of folk tales of the Bhil tribe in Madhya Pradesh. The collection, in ...

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, teacher, director and story collector Najla Jraissaty Khoury founded a traveling theater company in the hopes of preserving oral folk tales of older ...

“Hansel and Gretel” is one of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales that has become world famous. Courtesy illustration “The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition,” ...

“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

“Tale of the Nine-Tailed” is delighting viewers with its spin on the fantasy genre and reinterpretation of traditional stories! “Tale of the Nine-Tailed” features a unique story in which characters ...

With yet another Snow White adaptation currently in theaters, CU Boulder scholar Suzanne Magnanini reflects on the enduring appeal of fairy tales Once upon a time—this time, in fact, and many of the ...

In Other Ever Afters, Melanie Gillman’s new graphic novel collection of fairy tales, queer people find happiness, community, and kindness. It feels almost revolutionary, updating fairy tales’ ...