The Origins of Fractured Fairy Tales
A Fairy Tale, Myth, or Legend is an instance of a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. One day Papa was telling Fairy Tales to his children as he remembered them from his childhood, and upon hearing those tales Mama acclaimed, “that’s not the way the story goes”. Papa rethinking he had forgotten his childhood stories revisited them in some old children’s books. As he read, he found the story true to his oral traditions. Then sharing again with Mama, “oh my what did my Mother do”? Grandma O’Connor, Mama’s mother, would tell her children fractured fairy tales and cut out all of the bad parts, leaving only the happy endings.
