Editing Fairy tale (section)

===Folk and literary===
The fairy tale, told orally, is a sub-class of the [[folklore|folktale]]. Many writers have written in the form of the fairy tale. These are the literary fairy tales, or {{lang|de|Kunstmärchen}}.<ref name="Windling1"/> The oldest forms, from ''[[Panchatantra]]'' to the ''[[Pentamerone]]'', show considerable reworking from the oral form.{{Sfn|Swann Jones|1995|p=35}} The [[Brothers Grimm|Grimm brothers]] were among the first to try to preserve the features of oral tales. Yet the stories printed under the Grimm name have been considerably reworked to fit the written form.{{Sfn|Attebery|1980|p=5}}

Literary fairy tales and oral fairy tales freely exchanged plots, motifs, and elements with one another and with the tales of foreign lands.{{Sfn|Zipes|2001|p=xii}} The literary fairy tale came into fashion during the 17th century, developed by aristocratic women as a parlour game. This, in turn, helped to maintain the oral tradition. According to [[Jack Zipes]], "The subject matter of the conversations consisted of literature, mores, taste, and etiquette, whereby the speakers all endeavoured to portray ideal situations in the most effective oratorical style that would gradually have a major effect on literary forms."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale|last=Zipes|first=Jack|publisher=University of Kentucky Press|year=2013|pages=20–21|isbn=978-0-8131-0834-6}}</ref> Many 18th-century folklorists attempted to recover the "pure" folktale, uncontaminated by literary versions. Yet while oral fairy tales likely existed for thousands of years before the literary forms, there is no pure folktale, and each literary fairy tale draws on folk traditions, if only in parody.{{Sfn|Zipes|2001|p=846}} This makes it impossible to trace forms of transmission of a fairy tale. Oral story-tellers have been known to read literary fairy tales to increase their own stock of stories and treatments.{{Sfn|Degh|1988|p=73}}