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What is the difference between a fable and folk or fairy-tale?
Folk and fairy tales are stories written specially for children, often about magical characters such as elves, fairies, goblins and giants. Sometimes the characters are animals.
A fable is another type of story, also passed down from generation to generation and told to teach a lesson about something.
Fables are about animals that can talk and act like people, or plants or forces of nature like thunder or wind.