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Researching Fairy Tales

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairytales eBook

Keywords to search

Enter your fairy tale title AND keywords / motifs / themes related to the story (see below).

You may also narrow your search by entering the author's name and the keyword, criticism.

Example: "snow white" AND grimm AND stepmother

  • child development
  • coming of age
  • anxiety
  • death
  • father
  • fear
  • good & evil
  • hero
  • heroine
  • independence
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • maturity
  • morality
  • mother
  • murder
  • puberty
  • sexuality
  • sibling rivarly
  • stepmother