Parents should take the time to tell many cultures of this earth know the old stories. They are tested by courageous Prince, beautiful princesses, witches and wizards. Natural phenomena play a role and often talking animals are the protagonists. The news portal news.de addresses the question, what is the fascination of the fairy tale. Who should better answer the question for the particular story as someone who be dubbed for many years as a storyteller. The news.de editorial society (www.news.de/ gesellschaft.html) spoke with Jurgen Jannig. The truly retired lecturer tells fairy tales for over 30 years. His repertoire covers by the Brothers Grimm, chain tale up to the tales of foreign cultures.

They have one thing in common: originally they were created not as harmless bedtime stories for children. Rather, the adult in this way explained the ways of the world. So come some gruesome moments. Franca-Hansel leads and Gretel as an exemplary example of explained that abandoned children testifies to famine. The witch is just lives in a gingerbread, make it in the double sense personalized evil. Despite its serious history and the gruesome scenes of war or death related parents should withhold the stories their children. Franca-explains that there should be no taboo to confront children with death. This happens in fairy tales, they grow it and learn to understand.

In addition, the narrative promotes the relationship between parent and child. By Klein on the children learn to listen. Parents in turn realize how far the next generation is already in his grasp.