Fairy tale

A fairy tale (pronounced /ˈfeəriˌteɪl/) is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy tale romance" (though not all fairy tales end happily). Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Legends are perceived as real; fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unlike legends and epics, they usually do not contain more than superficial references to religion and actual places, people, and events; they take place once upon a time rather than in actual times.

Fairy tale (disambiguation)

A fairy tale is a story featuring folkloric characters.

Fairy Tale(s) or Fairytale(s) may also refer to:

Literature

  • Fairy Tales (Cummings book), a book of fairy tales by e. e. cummings
  • Fairy Tales (Terry Jones book), a book of children's stories
  • Faerie Tale, a 1988 fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist
  • Fairytale fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy that uses of folklore motifs and plots
  • Joseph Jacobs published multiple collections of fairy tales with distinguished illustrations by John Dickson Batten
  • Fairy Tail, a 2006 manga by Hiro Mashima
  • Dance

  • A Fairy Tale, a ballet by Marius Petipa and Richter
  • Film and television

  • Fairy Tales (film), a 1979 sex comedy
  • FairyTale: A True Story, a 1997 film based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies
  • Fairy Tale (TV series), a Canadian LGBT dating show
  • Fairy Tales (TV series), a 2008 British drama anthology series
  • "Fairy Tale", the 12th episode in season 2 of the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place
  • Music

    Albums

  • Fairytale (album), a 1965 album by Donovan
  • Fairy Tale (Suk)

    Josef Suk wrote the music for Julius Zeyer's mythological drama Radúz and Mahulena in 1897-8. It was first performed on 6 June 1898, under the baton of Adolf Čech.

    In 1899-1900, Suk extracted a four-movement Suite to this Pohádka (or Fairy Tale). Zeyer greatly impressed Suk. The style and orchestration is much affected by Richard Strauss (who was ten years Suk's elder), although Suk's writing is somewhat simpler. There are harmonic sideslips and turns of phrase that could almost have come out of Strauss's A Hero's Life (1898), yet Suk's manner is essentially simpler (and has at its centre the same lyricism which also makes his earlier Serenade such a delightful piece). Dvořák thought this Suite "music from heaven". The Suite was revised in 1912, and remains one of Suk's most successful works.

    The four movements are:

  • About the Constant Love of Raduz and Mahulena and Their Trials
  • Intermezzo. Playing at Swans and Peacocks
  • Intermezzo. Funeral Music
  • Runa's Curse and How It was Broken by True Love
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Fairy Tale

    by: Jessica Sanchez

    Hey, I’m kinda jealous, I’m kinda mad
    I’m kinda poutin’, I’m kinda sad
    Girl, where’d you get him, he’s such a find
    You hit the jackpot, one of a kind
    Refrain:
    Do he got a brother or maybe just another one like him?
    Do he got a homie,
    You can introduce me to?
    Just like him
    Chorus:
    I’m kind jealous that your boyfriend seems like a fairytale like a
    fairytale
    He’s hella perfect, hella cute, hella fun like a fairytale, like a
    fairytale
    Did he come to your rescue? Did he win the fight?
    Did he slay the dragon? Did you ride off in the night?
    Sorry, I can’t stop staring, I’m still in shock
    How did you find him? He’s smokin’ hot
    Must have paid cupid, more than a lot
    To go searchin’ all around the clock for him
    [Refrain]
    [Chorus]
    Bridge:
    But I don’t mean to be jealous, I don’t mean to be mad
    In fact I’m rather happy, in fact I’m rather glad that I know
    That cupid is on the road and he’s gonna find mine
    [Chorus]
    Did he come to your rescue?
    Did he win the fight?
    Did he slay the dragon?




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