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Fairy Tales
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[German Version] I. Literary History – II. Religious History – III. In Religious Education
I. Literary History The fairy tale (the diminutive German term
Märchen derives from MHG
maere, “tidings,” “news,” “story, narrative”; the English term has been variously derived from ME
faie, fei< MF
feie, fee< Lat.
fata; a genre term since the 16th cent.) as a basic genre of literary narrative is ¶ characterized by elements of the fantastic, miraculous, and supernatural. Neither the authors nor the circumstances of origin of fairy tales are known; although over the course of oral transmission fairy tales are subject to variations and reworkings, the narrative core remains stable. The modern understanding of fairy tales and folk tales has been shaped especially by the
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Religion Past and Present
