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Six example sentences with fairytale, each labelled with its topic.
The Grimm brothers collected each fairytale from village tellers, then softened the endings before printing them for polite drawing rooms.
Literature
Every animated fairytale in the studio's catalog opens with a hand-drawn book, an enchanted wood, and a wish granted at midnight.
Movies
The suite sets one fairytale per movement, giving the wicked godmother low brass and the glass slipper a solo celesta.
Music
Rackham's ink illustrations gave each fairytale a forest of gnarled trees whose branches seemed to reach for the reader.
Art
Researchers argue that a fairytale lets children rehearse fear at a safe distance, since the ogre is outwitted by page twelve.
Psychology
The game retells a familiar fairytale, and the player's choices decide whether the miller's daughter keeps her gold.
Gaming
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