Food For Thought

Fairy Tales 

    

Fairy tales have come down from old times, when people really believed in the powers of fairies, elves and other supernatural beings, goods and bad.

The story of Cinderella, blue beard and his wives and the sleeping beauty, these are some of stories that are not very old, but are found with slight differences in many different language. Besides these old tales, many beautiful fairy stories have been written in modern times like “Peter Pan” and “The Water Babies” are read with delight, not only by children but also by grown-up people.

Of course no one now believes in fairies except young children. But yet even authors of genius still write fairy tales and people still read them with pleasure. Children still love fairy stories and their mothers still think it is a good thing to tell them. Now a days there is a facility that we can watch movies of these fairy tales. But still we want to read fairy tales because they take us for a little time, out of our dull everyday life. Fairy tales are good to read, because they express and keep alive the sense of wonder which is very valuable thing for adults as well as children. When we cease to wonder, we cease to learn.