Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and happily-ever-afters? Think again. The original versions of some of our best-loved fairy tales are a far cry from their Disney-fied incarnations ...

The 20 best fairy tale movies In 2011, a version of Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh, harked back to Perrault's original tale. Emily Browning played a cash-strapped student who takes a job ...

How does the same story come to be known as “Beauty and the Beast” in the U.S. and “The Fairy ... told some 6,000 years ago in Proto-Indo-European. Now we tell a similar tale about the ...

Back in 1971, a women's liberation group on Merseyside rewrote some fairy tales, taking the emphasis away from wealth, beauty and youth. This saw Snow White opting to work in the coal mines with ...

How about taking the captivating nature of your garden to the next level with some fairy tale garden ideas? Creating a fairy tale-inspired garden can be a delightful and whimsical project ...

It shows us very clearly that from the beginning, the worlds of these fairy tales were always centered around race. “They are white not by chance,” Lau writes, “but by design.” ...

Many early Australian fairy tales commonly merged Aboriginal people with mythical creatures. And some researchers believe that many Indigenous stories remain unknown because they aren't really ...