Black And White Antique Illustration Shows A Squirrel. Vintage Marvellous Illustration Shows The Squirrel. Old Fabulous

Black and white antique illustration shows a squirrel. Vintage marvellous illustration shows the squirrel. Old fabulous picture from fairytale book. Storybook illustration published 1910. A fairy tale, fairytale, wonder tale, magic tale, fairy story or Marchen is an instance of folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature mythical entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies and Peris, giants, Divs, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. 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 (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables.