Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.
The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...