“Fairy Tales” are two most sensible and cheerful words that bring so much to our minds. We get excited when we hear about our favourite fairy tales, it brings our childhood memories back and we begin to relive those moments when our grandparents used to tell them as a part of our daily nighttime stories.
Strange how the good old golden days turned into a period of life where we forgot all those stories and buried them deep inside ourselves. All we have is days full of work and nights full of sleeplessness. But here we bring something worth reading for our ever-busy audience to rewind and relax.
Let’s take a sneak peek at 5 of the most loved and admired fairy tales of all time which are still loved by children and which made your childhood 100 times better than it would actually have been in the absence of them. I’m sure you have them in your mind by now and with a slight smile, you are about to read it further. So let’s not waste too much time and jump onto some of them.
1. Cinderella
"Remember the poor girl getting tortured by her stepmother and sisters, having no one to talk to other than the tiny birds and rabbits, turning into a princess by magic, meeting the handsome prince Charming, leaving behind the glass slipper and finally uniting with the prince and living a happily ever after."
Well, I am sure you must have felt nostalgia while reading this. Cinderella is the story which we all once wanted to be in. We all had imagined meeting a fairy who can turn us into a princess. How innocent we were that we thought it to be true. But the truth is, it was a fairy tale, just a fairy tale
The Cinderella tale first appeared in print in 1634 in the Pentamerone. Cenerentola is the local name for Cinderella. Charles Perrault, a French author, revised the tale and published it as The Story of Cendrillon in 1697. Basile's version already had the wicked stepmother and the bad stepsisters.
However, Perrault added other elements that are now inseparably linked to the tale, such as the pumpkin, the fairy godmother, and the glass slipper. The Cinderella story is actually far older than these seventeenth-century renditions thanks to the Chinese version known as "Ye Xian" or "Yeh-Shen," which dates back to the ninth century.
2. Rapunzel
3. Snow White
4. Puss in Boots
5. Goldilocks and The Three Bears
2. Rapunzel
Although the story's earliest form dates to the fifteenth century, it is another classic in the Grimm fairy tale collection. Many traditional elements of a fairy tale are present in "Rapunzel" (whose name is derived from the word "rampion," a type of lettuce): the damsel in distress, the villainous stepmother, and the dashing prince.
Even the refined remake gives away that the Grimms' original version was anything but a children's tale because of its "adult" themes. Nevertheless, this is a classic, and almost everyone is familiar with the picture of the golden-haired Rapunzel letting down her hair from the tower in which she is confined.
3. Snow White
The famous fairy tale of Snow White has many of the most recognisable elements of the genre, including the evil stepmother, the prince as the love interest, the pattern of three, the woodland setting, the kind-hearted aids (the huntsman, the dwarfs), and the happy ending.
The Brothers Grimm published the tale of "Schneewittchen" in their collections of traditional fairy tales, which is how the narrative of "Snow White" came to be widely read in printed literature for the first time in the early nineteenth century. The seven dwarfs lack names in the Grimms' version and in all nineteenth-century retellings of the Snow White tale.
However, the 1937 Disney picture was not the first to give them unique names. That occurred in a Broadway play from 1912 with the dwarf's Queen, Which, Flick, Glick, Snick, and Blick. The names that we will always remember for the seven dwarfs were then created for the Disney picture.
4. Puss in Boots
When Charles Perrault included "Puss in Boots'' in his 1697 collection of fairy tales, it became a standard example of a fairy tale that uses "the animal as a helper." However, like many of the greatest fairy tales, an original copy can be found in the 1634 Pentamerone, a collection of oral folktales put together by Giambattista Basile.
In Perrault's adaptation of this traditional fairy tale, the booted cat demonstrates his tenacity and commercial spirit and aids his hapless master in rising socially. But some of his dishonesty and questionable behaviour are included.
5. Goldilocks and The Three Bears
Three talking, walking bears from this well-known fairy tale decide to go for a walk one day so that their hot porridge will cool off. They are out for a walk when a mischievous girl by the name of Goldilocks enters their property, breaks into their house, and starts eating the bears' chairs, beds, and porridge.
The modernized version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears was published in 1837 by Robert Southey. Goldilocks didn't have a name before the 1837 adaptation, and her hair wasn't even golden. Instead, the intrusion into the bears' home was carried out by an elderly woman with silver hair.
Even though different minds have different likes and dislikes, we have tried to bring out the most genuinely loved tales of all time. Having a good read would surely bring back all those days when you imagined being a part of one of the above stories.
Written by: Khushbu Arora
Edited by: Nidhi Jha
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