Verbal versions vary from teller to teller and started out just being stories about witches and demons, however, that changed with time and became a little more gentle. Over time those long scary tales were getting to be softer and along came stories about the Fairy Princess and her Prince.
This style of ending was used to describe a happy ending, or a beautiful romance. It also had a meaning of a "tall tale" during those days. In that time of world history demons and witches were thought of as real, and those long tales can be perceived as truth grounded from historical truth. Since they were handed down by mouth and there is no history to back up the stories, hence nothing written to trace.
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The older stories were intended for adults and children, But children were the target of the Brother Grimm with their collection titled Childcare's and Household Tales and this link to children has grown stronger with time.
The meaning of the folklore tales has never been established. One thing that is agreed on is that fairy tales do not require fairies. In a lot of the readings of stories, talking animals which seems to have the presence of magic seem to be more common to the tales than the fairies are. The most beautiful story is considered by some to be George MacDonald. The Fantastic Imagination.
Brothers Grimm were the first to try to preserve all the oral tales. It is hard to imagine how the mind could remember in detail about the oral stories. Grimm wanted a paper trail of the stories they wrote about.
The oral tales are different from the written versions. Many folklorist attempted to recover the old stories in as pure form as they could find, but the argument is that they are impossible to trace and therefore, cannot be original or pure as they were referred to.
Some stage story tellers were known to read from literary books to increase their own stock of the stories in variation.
Fairy Tale History
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