by Joshua Toback
Incest is far more prevalent in fairy tales than I ever remembered them being as a child. The tale “Donkey Skin,”…
In the classic version of Cinderella written by the Brothers Grimm, Cinderella was a damsel in distress. In the very…
In “Briar Rose”, as told by the Grimm Brothers, a princess and her castle are cast under a spell causing everybody in the castle…
The archetype of the wolf in fairy tales is something of a malicious one. The wolf is seen as a character that steals…
The color red shows up in multiple fairy tales and can be interpreted in different ways. In Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, the color red represents maturity and beauty. Little Red Riding Hood is a story about a girl who goes into the woods on her own and is almost killed and sexually…
It is a common pattern in Fairy Tales that the father of the family plays an absent and rather silent role throughout the…
These were the top 10 stories published by Elon’s Fairy Tale Files; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022.