What is the difference between folktales and fairytales

I am about to begin a unit on folk tales using the book Stone Soup. Any suggestions beside making stone soup in the classroom? Thanks for your help! Cutieali25 , Mar 2, Joined: Sep 28, Messages: 3, Likes Received: Mar 2, Folk tales and fairy tales are very different AND very similar. Folk tales usually contain exaggeration and often an animal dressed and acting like a human.

There is usually a lesson, although that is also the purpose of fables. Fairy tales were not originally for children. Real fairy tales are very dark and scary and violent; therefore, children adore them IF they are allowed to experience them uncensored.

I love Disney, but that studio really knows how to diminish a good story. I still love them, but grrrrrrrrrrrr! They mostly deal with a character getting out of a difficult situation using his own resources. Folk tales do not contain as many supernatural elements as fairy tales. Folktale is a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among people. Fairy tales are not realistic; they have imaginary characters and settings.

She is currently reading for a Masters degree in English. Her areas of interests include literature, language, linguistics and also food. Folktales have some moral lesson to be learnt from them. Fairytale is a short story that contains fairies as their main characters along with their magic and magical creatures. It is believed to be an offshoot or a subgenre within the genre of folktales. Fairy tales mostly begin with Once upon a time… and involve battle between the good and the evil with fairies and other magical creatures helping the good characters inside these stories that mostly end with triumph of good over the evil.

If you find it hard to tell whether it is a folktale or a fairytale, you can consider this as a thumb rule. If the story contains fairies, it is a fairytale. American Folklore This folklore site contains retellings of folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, weatherlore, and ghost stories from all over the Americas.

The Cinderella Project A text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Kids Gen Folktales for Children This website houses a large collection of folk tales for children.