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fairy tale

Fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic

Entityliterary genre form of creative workQ699

Also known as fairy story · Marchen · akụkọ ifo

Instance of: literary genre
, form of creative work
Subclass of: tale
, mirabilia
, allegorical story

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A fairy tale is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. Prevalent elements include dragons, dwarfs, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, merfolk, monsters, monarchy, pixies, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, witches, wizards, woodwoses, magic, and enchantments.

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Has list: list of fairy tales
Union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: Volksmärchen, literary fairy tale
Partially coincident with: traditional story
Different from: Fairy Tail
Has characteristic: fairy tale museum
Intended public: child
Studied by: study of fairy tales

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