"folk tales" are fictional stories that are told and passed down among people within a culture. the tales are are often based off of superstitions. they are not usually considered sacred or true by storytellers or story-listeners and are for entertainment purposes. we can think of fairytales and folktales as similar things that have supernatural influence and revolve around magical ideas including fairies, elves, ogres, and more. it is also known that a tale does not have a fixed time or place, so you can change a folktale’s setting without destroying the narrative or story. although folktales have the magical or fictional elements, they tend to connect or relate to the events of everyday life. folktales are traditional stories with a magical twist. they can involve a person or even an animal learning a valuable lesson through cultural rules. an example of a folktale include a british story about a girl who breaks into a house where three bears live to try all of their oatmeal, and then gets scared away. this is called “goldilocks and the three bears”. “the ant and the grasshopper” is one of aesop’s classic fables about a grasshopper who plays all summer and the ant who prepares for the hard winter ahead. fairytales are a subcategory of  folktales, and include common stories like “cinderella”, a fairy tale about a servant girl who becomes a princess, thanks to true love, and “rapunzel”, a german fairy tale about a kidnapped child who grew up in a lonely tower with just her magically long hair to keep her company. these types of tales include royalty and fantastical magic, many of which are published by brothers grimm and hans christian anderson.