Adaptation of the literary arts is as natural as breathing. However, no genre comes close to the importance of fairy tales. Fairy tales surpass being merely stories to a realm of mythology unheard of for most literary works. They are a living, breathing form of culture that are recognized from childhood onward. What the tale of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” means to a kid is entirely separate of it’s meaning to an adult. Likewise, one person may identify a story with a popular film, while another may identify it with a fable such as the Grimm Brothers’. What centuries ago had once been mainly for adults is now a family friendly genre that has bled into nearly every aspect of culture. Along with these adaptations comes a natural evolution to appeal to different demographics; what are the factors of these changes and what influenced them? The official definition of a fairy tale is: “A story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins) —called also fairy story” or simply, “A story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending” (Merriam-Webster). The fairy tale started out as an oral tradition and it was not necessarily meant for children. “As an oral form, the fairy tale was…show more content… The most commonly thought of authors of literary fairy tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm penned most of today’s universally recognized fairy tales. They popularized fairy tales in the 19th century. The Grimm brother’s, within their writing career’s, adapted the tales we know today quite a bit. They released 6 different editions of their stories. The most commonly known of the editions is the final 1857 edition. Each edition changed drastically one after the other. The Grimm brother’s original intention was to record the folk tales exactly as they knew them to be told with very little creative influence from themselves (Grimm and Grimm,