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Folktales and Fairy Tales
Old 11-06-2005, 07:47 AM
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How can I explain the difference between folktales and fairy tales to my students? When I searched for characteristics of both online, there was almost no difference.

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Old 11-06-2005, 09:39 AM
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In my search I found that a fairytale is a type of Folktale. A fairytale contains magical characters e.g. witches, queens prince and princesses. check out this site. [URL="http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/irs/folktale.htm"]

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