Henry Justice Ford, illustration of Andrew Lang, The Book of Romance (1902), one of the many books of fairytales Lang and his wife published (image via Wikimedia Commons) Specters of the Marvelous ...

The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...

All Proceeds GoTo Corporate Accountability, Brew & Forge, and Neighborhood Birth Center. BOSTON, MA. - Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale returns to the BCA Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont ...

In Grimms’ Fairy Tales there is a story called “The Stubborn Child” that is only one paragraph long. Here it is, in a translation by the fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes: Once upon a time there was a ...

Philip Pullman's new book distills classic stories to their purest form, and their purest form resembles today's basest TV shows and movies. "There is no psychology in a fairy tale," Philip Pullman ...

Quick question: How many fairy tales can you name? If you haven't read Hans Christian Andersen or Andrew Lang in a while, you should definitely commit to reading some of their archetypal tales soon.

In order to understand where the sexist tropes we see in the media come from, it helps to take a look at one of the most influential roots of Western stories: Fairy tales. Many of the sexist tropes ...