to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead

　　parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always

　　much better to tell a story than read it out from a book, and, if a

　　parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances(情况) of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, that’s much better.

　　A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the children by frightening them or making them sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who had read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being strongly terrified by some fairy stories. This also arises from the child who has heard the story once. However, familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

　　There are also people who are opposed to fairy stories in that they are not true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must say so strange that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

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