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Stock characters of fairy tales, whether culturally specific names often used for heroes and heroines, or more general roles found in fairy tales. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
Female characters in fairy tales (8 C, 254 P) M. Male characters in fairy tales (7 C, 91 P) S. Sleeping Beauty characters (1 C, 2 P) Snow White characters (2 C, 4 P, 1 F)
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 ...
Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Caumont de La Force) Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Mailly) Fairy godmother; The Falcon Pipiristi; The Fan of Patience (Pakistani fairy tale) Feather O' My Wing (Irish fairy tale) The Fire-Fairy; The Fisher-Girl and the Crab; The Flea (fairy tale) The Flower Queen's Daughter; The Forgotten Bride; The Fox Sister; Frau Holle; The Frog ...
The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, [1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [2] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful ...
Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. [1] She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. [2] The character also appears in a pantomime tracing its roots to 1806. [3]
Mr. Grandours (in French, literally "large bear") is the title character from the French fairy tale The Wizard King (from Andrew Lang's The Yellow Fairy Book), about a shapeshifting wizard king; this is revealed in the Fables Encyclopedia. [4]
Miss Potter (2006); HBO Storybook Musicals (1991) and in 2012 Quantum Theatre produced a new stage adaptation of the tales of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny. Written by Michael Whitmore the play toured the UK until 2015.