You don't have to look far to see the presence of fairy tales still being told today on television. But what is it about these age-old stories that stand the test of time and have audiences coming ...

Once upon a time there was a king with three daughters, the youngest of whom was the most beautiful and gentle girl ever seen but the older two rather ugly and proud. One night, the three were talking ...

When recalling popular fairy tales, most people think of authors from the 19th century like the brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen. But new research finds that popular stories like "Jack and ...

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When fairy tales were first written down by the Grimm Brothers, there was no way to tell how immersive, grand and spectacular the folk stories would appear on movie screens. Legends that fascinated ...

Read “Jack and the Beanstalk” to your kids this evening, and you are probably putting them in touch with human sentiments that are thousands of years old. Same goes if you read them “Beauty and the ...

Once upon a time, there was a knight who bore a wyvern (a type of dragon) on his shield, and who one day was riding past Gloucester when he heard of a magical fairy mound. It was a place where tired ...