Breaking the Magic Spell

“Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives.” — Lore and Language This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fa