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[[File:BabaYagaHut.jpg|frame|Outside [[Baba Yaga]]'s Hut, in a Russian [[Fairy Tale]]]]

 

''The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St George to kill the dragon."''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]'''}}

 

Several extremely popular tales such as [[Charles Perrault|Perrault]]'s "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" did feature fairies, helping give weight to the name, while others like "[[Rumpelstiltskin]]" alluded to [[Our Fairies Are Different|a more sinister kind]] of [[The Fair Folk|folkloric fairies]]. On the other hand, Perrault's "Cinderella" is an odd-ball; normally the Cinderella figure is helped by [[Our Ghosts Are Different|her dead mother]], and "Sleeping Beauty" is as likely to be a victim of prophecy as a [[Curse]]). Many, such as "[[Rapunzel]]", "[[Puss in Boots (novel)|Puss in Boots]]", "[[Hansel and Gretel]]", and "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]", contain no such figures. Some, like "[[The Emperor's New Clothes|The Emperors New Clothes]]" contain no magic of any kind.

 

 

For a list of tropes common to fairy tales, see [[Fairy Tale Tropes]].

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