Table Comparison of folk and literary tales
| November 12, 2020 | Education
| Folk tale | Literary fairy tale |
| The author is the people. | The author is a specific person (he is a creator). |
| The author’s attitude to the characters is not visible.
Permanent epithets. |
The author’s attitude to the characters is visible. |
| Exists orally | Created in writing. |
| Every fairy tale exists
in several versions. (The narrator can make changes.) |
No changes are allowed. |
| The time of creation is impossible to determine | The time of the creation of the tale is known. |
| A folk tale is limited to a specific genre:
– magic, – household, – about animals |
Not limited to a specific genre,
includes features everyday fairy tale, and magic, and animal tales and even science fiction. |
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