Fairy Tales can come true.
It can
happen to you
If you're young at heart.
(Anything that is underlined will take you directly to the book or
author!)
Isn't it true? Aren't we always looking for something to make us feel lighter; as if the weight of our lives weren't all that bad? It would be sad and strange to meet someone who had never heard a Fairy Tale as they slipped into the blissful sleep of childhood. To hear your parent's voice leading you through dark woods or magic castles, blurring the lines between reality and truth is one of the singular joys of innocence.
And Fairy Tales almost always have within them some kernel of truth, some
archetype of human experience framed in the most ridiculous wrapping. At the
beginning of written experience,
Aesop began encapsulating these morality tales.
Soon, with the advent of the printing press, others,
like
Hans Christian Andersen and
The Brothers
Grimm expanded the genre to a cult status.
Before Science Fiction or Horror stories, the Fairy Tale
continued to be one of the singular articles of everyday entertainment. At the
end of the nineteenth century, serious literary prescences such as
Andrew Lang
were translating and collating the Fairy Tale treasure chest, and without them
such classics as the
The Arabian Nights might have been lost forever.
And, if you REALLY want to get "Down and
Dirty" check out the REAL version of
Gulliver's Travels. If your mom had ever read this, she
would have made sure you didn't!
As I think of some more good Fairy Tales, I'll include
them here. This should give everyone something to dream about!
The Cranky Librarian
And Fairy Tales are not always pleasant! The psychedelic
interactions of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland and the other-worldly series of
The Books
of Oz challenge the mind and send the spirit on a voyage of discovery.