History of Fairy Tales

By Alisha Ryan
  • Period: 7000 BCE to 1 BCE

    ancient

  • 620 BCE

    Aesop’s Fables

    Aesop’s Fables
    ancient Greece
    Aesop
    Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE
  • 850

    Aladdin (1001 Arabian Nights)

    Aladdin (1001 Arabian Nights)
    1959
    china
    Greg Couch
    When street rat Aladdin frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp -- and for Princess Jasmine. But can Aladdin save Princess Jasmine and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be?
  • 860

    Cinderella

    Cinderella
    France.
    Charles Perraul
    Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world.
  • 1200

    The Frog King

    The Frog King
    New Orleans
    Adam Davies
    The fairytale "The Frog King or Iron Henry" is about a beautiful princess and a frog. Every day, this beautiful princess plays with her gold ball. She throws it up, and catches it. After a while, when she threw the ball up, it rolled at the tip of a well and fell in.
  • Period: 1500 to 1 CE

    mediveral

  • Period: 1500 to

    modern

  • Pocahontas

    Pocahontas
    Jamestown, Virginia
    Glen Keane Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia,

  • Beauty & The Beast

    Beauty & The Beast
    United States
    Gabrielle-Suzanne An arrogant prince is cursed to live as a terrifying beast until he finds true love. Strangely, his chance comes when he captures an unwary clockmaker, whose place is then taken by his bold and beautiful daughter Belle.

  • The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
    Mexico
    Alexander Pushkin
    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights is an 1833 fairy tale poem by Aleksandr Pushkin

  • The Snow Queen

    The Snow Queen
    Denmark
    Hans Christian Andersen
    "The Snow Queen" is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in New Fairy Tales.

  • The Boys with the Golden Stars

    The Boys with the Golden Stars
    A herdsman had three daughters. The youngest was the most beautiful. One day, the emperor was passing with attendants. The oldest daughter said that if he married her, she would bake him a loaf of bread that would make him young and brave forever