Fairy Tales

from Inkspell

"Fairy Tales" has been created by Nancy Zuwiyya as part of Inkspell, an educational website. Copyright 2000 - 2006. 

Common Characteristics of Fairy Tales

Definition of the Fairy Tale

Fairy Tales by Titles

Folk Literature Genres

Grimm Brothers

Legends, Urban Legends

Links to Resources on the Internet

Themes in Fairy Tales

Vocabulary

What are Fairies?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Links and Resources about Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales

Beauty and the Beast

Cinderella

Eastern European and Balkans Fairy Tales

The Frog Prince

Hansel and Gretel

More Fairy Tales (searchable by subject and title)

Myths and Legends (arranged by country and geographic region)

Rumpelstiltskin

Rapunzel

Russian and Ukrainian Fairy Tales

The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women

    by Trina Schart Hyman (available at the Binghamton LMC)

Sleeping Beauty

Snow White

SurLaLune (all fairy tales)

The Tale of the Dead Princess

The Grimm Brothers

TheGrimm Brothers biographical information

Grimm  Brothers - 209 Tales from the Collected Tales

Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers in German and English

More Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales

National Geographic Site on the Grimm Brothers

Another version of this story is "The Tale of the Dead Princess"

Read about strong female heroines in The Serpent Slayer, a new book of fairy tales by Katrin Tchana and Trina Schart Hyman

This page was last updated on: March 19, 2006

Did you know?

Cinderella is probably the most commonly told fairy tale in the world with hundreds, perhaps as many as a thousand, versions in existence in many languages and countries around the world.