This is an old fairytale about the little hen who saved the world.
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features
European folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins,
elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, witches, mermaids, or gnomes, 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
farfetched story or tall tale; it's used especially of any story
that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true. In
cultures where demons and witches 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 tales are found in oral and in literary form. The
history of the fairy tale is particularly difficult to trace
because only the literary forms can survive. Still, the evidence of
literary works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for
thousands of years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre; the
name "fairy tale" was first ascribed to them by Madame d'Aulnoy in
the late 17th century. Many of today's fairy tales have evolved
from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in
multiple cultures around the world. Fairy tales, and works derived
from fairy tales, are still written today. The older fairy tales
were intended for an audience of adults, as well as children, but
they were associated with children as early as the writings of the
precieuses; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's
and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown
stronger with time. Folklorists have classified fairy tales in
various ways. The Aarne-Thompson classification system and the
morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp are among the most
notable. Other folklorists have interpreted the tales'
significance, but no school has been definitively established for
the meaning of the tales. The fairytale moves in an unreal world
without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with
the marvelous. In this never-never land, humble heroes kill
adversaries, succeed to kingdoms and marry princesses. The
characters and motifs of fairy tales are simple and archetypal:
princesses and goose-girls; youngest sons and gallant princes;
ogres, giants, dragons, and trolls; wicked stepmothers and false
heroes; fairy godmothers and other magical helpers, often talking
horses, or foxes, or birds; glass mountains; and prohibitions and
breaking of prohibitions. One universally agreed-upon matter is
that fairy tales do not require fairies. Common parlance conflates
fairy tales with beast fables and other folktales, and scholars
differ on the degree to which the presence of fairies and/or
similarly mythical beings (e.g., elves, goblins, trolls, giants
huge monsters) should be taken as a differentiator. Vladimir Propp,
in his Morphology of the Folktale, criticized the common
distinction between "fairy tales" and "animal tales" on the grounds
that many tales contained both fantastic elements and animals.
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