A Study of Fairy Tales

Chapter 20

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1) _The Country Mouse and the City Mouse_ as expression in language, dramatization, drawing, and crayon-sketching 144

2) _The Elves and the Shoemaker_ as expression in the dramatic game 145

3) _Little Two-Eyes_ as expression in dramatization. A fairy-play outline. (See _Appendix_) 145

4) _Snow White_ as expression in dramatization. (See _Appendix_) 145

5) _Sleeping Beauty_ as expression of partial narration, dramatic game, and dramatization combined 146

6) _The Little Lamb and the Little Fish_, an original tale developed from a Grimm fragmentary tale, illustrating expression in folk-game and dramatization. (See _Appendix_) 147

7) _The Bird and the Trees_, an original play illustrating expression in rhythm play and dramatization 149

8) _How the Birds came to Have Different Nests_, an original play illustrating language expression and dramatization. (See _Appendix_) 151

9) Andersen's _Fir Tree_ as expression in dramatization, illustrating organization of ideas through a play 152

IV. References 154

IV. THE HISTORY OF FAIRY TALES

I. The origin of fairy tales 158

1. The fairy tale defined 159

2. The derivation and history of the name, _fairy_ 159

a. Four senses in which _fairy_ has been used 160

3. The theories concerning the origin of fairy tales 161

a. Fairy tales are detritus of myth 161

1) The evolution of the tale 161

b. Fairy tales are myths of Sun, Rain, Dawn, Thunder, etc., the Aryan Theory 162