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Fairy Tale, maerchen, popular folk tale, fanciful story mixing reality 
and the miraculous. Indeterminate in terms of time and location, fairy 
tales do not necessarily deal with fairies. They raise no claim to 
credibility and their purpose is neither to instruct nor to frighten 
or edify the audience, such as is the case with  Legends and Sagas. 
The object of fairy tales is entertainment; they were originally meant 
for an adult audience and were spread by professional story-tellers 
and members of their audience. The collection of fairy tales by the 
Brothers Grimm served as a model for many similar undertakings in 
Austria: In the 19th century the brothers Ignaz Vinzenz and Josef 
Zingerle collected fairy tales from the Tirol, Viktor  Geramb and 
Romuald Pramberger did the same in Styria, Karl Haiding in Burgenland, 
Upper Austria and compiled fairy tales from all over Austria.

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Fairy tales as an art form (such as those by Oscar Wilde or Hans 
Christian Andersen) also continue to play a role in present-day 
Austrian literature, especially children's literature (for instance 
those by F  Tegetthoff).

!Literature
M. Luethi, Das europaeische Volksmaerchen, 1981; L. 
Roehrich, Maerchen und Wirklichkeit, %%sup 4/%1979; K. Haiding, 
Oesterreichischer Maerchen-Schatz, 1953ff.; I. Reiffenstein (ed.), 
Oesterreichische Maerchen, 1979.


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