Fairy Tales are wonder tales involving marvellous elements and occurrences. It is often difficult to distinguish between tales of literary and oral origin, because folktales have received literary treatment from early times, and literary tales have found their way back into the oral tradition. Hans Christian Andersen, famous for "The Little Mermaid" or "The Snow Queen", have their stories with roots in folk legend, but they are personal in style and contain elements of autobiography and contemporary social satire. Twentieth-century psychologists, notably Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Bruno Bettelheim, have interpreted elements of the fairy tale as manifestations of universal fears and desires. Most of the "originals" fairy tales have a much darker and disturbing end, a lot different from the ones that we are more familiarise.
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The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (1998) ‘Fairy tale’, in Encyclopædia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/art/fairy-tale (Accessed: 15 January 2017)
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