Traditionally ,for what purpose were fairytales used??

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Fairy tales were dark, because things were dark back then. Take "Ring around the rosies" for example. It's a song children sang about the plague.
Mainly, Fairytales were told to pass on morals, lessons... or just to entertain (like our ghost stories). Most of the Grimm stories, however dark, always had a good lesson. Don't cry wolf. See beauty in the inside, not the outer. Good triumphs over evil, so always do what is right. Etc.

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Traditionally ,for what purpose were fairytales used??
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In days of old before TV and Radio people told stories as a way to amuse away the late hours Fairy tales were a story with a moral. Goes back to Grecian times with AESOP's tales

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Purpose Of Fairy Tales

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Fairy tales, nursery rhymes and various old wives tales were all used for similar reasons,
to pass along information about how things work in the natural world
to remind people of the need to follow particular morals or values
to make it easy to pass information around in a world that was void of sufficient numbers of literate people.
to entertain children
to entertain adults
to share beliefs

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To scare children from sertain behavior - as a moral lesson (red riding hood) - and to bring hope to children not having much pleasure in a poor life (cinderella and snow white, hansel und gretel).

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Originally, the fairy tales of old were very dark and scary. The main reason for this was to tell the story to kids at night and frighten them into staying hidden in bed all night so the parents could have alone time.

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They were used to keep kids inside & to use the bucket beside their beds to urinate.
If the kids went outside to urinate the vampires or werewolves would have got them
Dont forget to check under your bed tonight (I'm going too)

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To keep children from wandering.

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to teach children morals