FAIRY TALES

What is a Fairy Tale?What is a Fairy Tale?

A simple narrative typically of folk A simple narrative typically of folk origin dealing with supernatural origin dealing with supernatural

beings.beings.

What Fairy Tales DO You What Fairy Tales DO You Know?Know?

CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAIRY TALEFAIRY TALE

**A fairy Tale may not have all of these****A fairy Tale may not have all of these**

•Good CHARACTERGood CHARACTER

•EVIL CHARACTEREVIL CHARACTER

•HELPER CHARACTERHELPER CHARACTER

•ROYALTY/CASTLEROYALTY/CASTLE

•Magic OccursMagic Occurs

•Things happen in groups of Three Things happen in groups of Three or Sevenor Seven

• 3 Bears (Goldilocks)3 Bears (Goldilocks)

• 3 Fairies (Sleeping Beauty)3 Fairies (Sleeping Beauty)

• 3 Pigs (Their Story)3 Pigs (Their Story)

• 3 Nights of the Ball (Cinderella)3 Nights of the Ball (Cinderella)

• 7 Dwarves (Snow White)7 Dwarves (Snow White)

• OTHERS?OTHERS?

Here’s One You Probably Here’s One You Probably Know: 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 HERE are some Fairy Tale endings Fairy Tale endings

you May not you May not Know…Know…

Snow WhiteAnd 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.

RapunzelThen she [the witch] let the hair down, and the King's

son climbed up, but instead of his dearest Rapunzel he found the witch looking at him with wicked glittering eyes.

“Aha!” cried she, mocking him, “you came for your darling, but the sweet bird sits no longer in the nest, and sings no more; the cat has got her, and will scratch out your eyes as well! Rapunzel is lost to you; you will see her no more.” The King's son was beside himself with grief, and in his agony he sprang from the tower : he escaped with life, but the thorns on which he fell put out his eyes. Then he wandered blind through the wood, eating nothing but roots and berries, and doing nothing but lament and weep for the loss of his dearest wife.

So he wandered several years in misery until at last he came to the desert place where Rapunzel lived. At first he heard a voice that he thought he knew, and when he reached the place from which it seemed to come Rapunzel knew him, and fell on his neck and wept. And when her tears touched his eyes they became clear again, and he could see with them as well as ever. Then he took her to his kingdom, where he was received with great joy, and there they lived long and happily.

ASSIGNMENTPart 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-Setting-Theme-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!