In fairy tales and fables we spent our first lesson learning about Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales and fables, and what the difference between them is.
A fable is a short story about morals, it has talking animals and inanimate objects, for example in the fable of the wolf and the Sheep, a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing was able to infiltrate the sheep's paddock. (Moral of the story is that appearances can be deceiving.)
Fairy tales are children's stories, a story with magical things like dragons, princesses, fae (another name for fairy) and centaurs (half horse and half human normally). Brothers Grimm story 'Cinderella' a fairy tale published in 1967, is a good example.
Legends are over exaggerated stories in short, they may carry the truth but still have falseness to them. Stories like the Lochness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot, and King Arthur are examples.
Myths are known as folklore genre, they concern the early history of the world, Greek Mythology is an example.
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