 "The King's only Daughter had been carried off by a Dragon" Arthur Rackham, (see also Cottonwool) “I am inclined to think, too, that fairy tales suffer in vigour and charm when they are prepared for the children; and that Wordsworth is right in considering that the very knowledge of evil conveyed in fairy tales under a certain glamour is of use in saving children from painful and injurious shocks in real life.” * “This sort of failure in verbal truthfulness is excessively common in imaginative children and calls for prompt attention and treatment; but not on the lines a hasty and righteous parent might be inclined to adopt. Here is no call for moral indignation. The parents and not the child are in fault. The probability is that the child's ravenous imagination is not duly and daily supplied with its proper meat, of fairy tale in early days, of romance, (i.e. fiction) later.” * “Doesn't she delight in fairy tales?" * “Fairy tales, (Andersen or Grimm, for example) delight Form lB, and the little people re-tell these tales copiously, vividly….” * “Whoever has told a fairy tale to a child has been made aware of that natural appetency for letters to which it is our business to minister.” * “Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” ~ G.K. Chesterton “We turn to fairy tales not to escape but to go deeper into a terrain we’ve inherited, the vast and muddy terrain of the human psyche." ~ Sabrina Orah Mark Examen: “Show the use of fairy tales in moral instruction.” When did I last read a fairy tale? ~~~~~~~ I am inclined: Charlotte M. Mason, Parents and Children, 2:107. This sort of failure: 2:210. Doesn’t she delight: Charlotte M. Mason, Formation of Character, 5:186. Fairy tales,(Anderson or: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:180. Whoever has told: 6:339. Fairy tales, then: “The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tremendous Trifles, by G. K. Chesterton,”Ch.XVII,accessedJuly15, 2024, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8092/8092-h/8092-h.htm Mason was friends with the Chestertons. We turn to: “Happily by Sabrina Orah Mark: 9780593242476 | PenguinRandomHouse.Com: Books,” PenguinRandomhouse.com, accessed January 6, 2025, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671923/happily-by-sabrina-orah-mark/. Show the use of: Parents, 2:297. Day 82 Fairytale meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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