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  2. Fairy tale parody - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tale parody. Fairy tale parody (also known as a fractured fairy tale) is a genre of fiction that parodies traditional fairy tales. The parodies are often created as new literary stories, movies, or television shows. The genre was popularized on television by the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segments on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

  3. The Gingerbread Man - Wikipedia

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    The Gingerbread Man (also known as The Gingerbread Boy) is a fairy tale about a gingerbread man 's misadventures while fleeing from various people that culminates in the titular character being eaten by a fox. "The Gingerbread Boy" first appeared in print in the May 1875, issue of St. Nicholas Magazine in a cumulative tale which, like "The ...

  4. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Kitsune - In Japanese folklore, they are described as "tricksters" with no care for the concept of right or wrong. Kuma Lisa - A fox and trickster figure in Bulgarian folklore. Loki - A cunning, shape-shifting god, sometimes benefactor and sometimes foe to the gods of Asgard. Famous as a catalyst for Ragnarök.

  5. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal - Wikipedia

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    an illustration of a variant of the tale. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian folklore with a long history and many variants. The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old ...

  6. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It also contains folklore that dates back to the Pre-Columbian era. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and ...

  7. Little Red Riding Hood - Wikipedia

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    In the Grimms' version, the wolf leaves the house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown (similarly to the story of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids"). Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet rather than being eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood ...

  8. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  9. Talking animals in fiction - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Louise Erdrich’s book Chickadee the protagonist is saved by a Chickadee, who instructs him in finding food and water, after he escapes a kidnapping. [6] Other examples of Native American works with talking animal stories include How I Became a Ghost, Keepers of the Earth, and The Orphan and the Polar Bear, just to name a few. [2]