Fairy tales served as medieval entertainment. They were cautionary tales, with advice about how to live your life, as much as they were fables. They were not just for children. “Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost,” by Sarah Hoyt, is a dozen updated fairy tales, snatched from traditional roots and garbed in modern clothing. Hoyt…
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Wisdom and Wonder: The Magic of Fairy Tales
In my 1967 edition of “The World’s Best Fairy Tales: A Reader’s Digest Anthology,” which sits at my elbow as I write these words, former children’s librarian Marie Cimino introduces this 800-page collection in this way: “In this world, virtue is always rewarded, evil is punished, the weak are helped and the youngest can be…
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