Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Berlin The composer Matthias Pintscher was ...

More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...

Many fairy tales have existed for well over 100 years, and their stories of magic and morality have continued to fill movie screens for an almost equal amount of time. Walt Disney has always been the ...

Here are some stories a lot of us grew up with. First, “The Fisherman and His Wife.” You remember: A fisherman catches a flounder, and the fish says it is enchanted and pleads to be spared. The ...

Jack and his mother were poor had to sell the cow because she had nothing left to sell. Jack never helped her and only expressed hunger. He sells the cow to the old man in exchange for beans, but Jack ...

Once upon a time, there was a knight who bore a wyvern (a type of dragon) on his shield, and who one day was riding past Gloucester when he heard of a magical fairy mound. It was a place where tired ...