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      4) Snow White as expression in dramatization. (See Appendix) 145
      5) Sleeping Beauty as expression of partial narration, dramatic game, and dramatization combined 146
      6) The Little Lamb and the Little Fish,an original tale developed from a Grimm fragmentary tale, illustrating expression in folk-game and dramatization. (See Appendix) 147
      7) The Bird and the Trees, an original play illustrating expression in rhythm play and dramatization 149
      8) How the Birds came to Have Different Nests, an original play illustrating language expression and dramatization. (See Appendix) 151
      9) Andersen's Fir Tree as expression in dramatization, illustrating organization of ideas through a play 152
IV. References 154
 
 
IV. THE HISTORY OF FAIRY TALES
 
I. The origin of fairy tales 158
  1. The fairy tale defined 159
  2. The derivation and history of the name, fairy 159
    a. Four senses in which fairy has been used 160
  3. The theories concerning the origin of fairy tales 161
    a. Fairy tales are detritus of myth 161
      1) The evolution of the tale 161
    b. Fairy tales are myths of Sun, Rain, Dawn, Thunder, etc., the Aryan Theory 162
    c. Fairy tales all arose in India, the Philological theory 165
    d. Fairy tales owe their origin to the identity of early fancy 167
    e. Fairy tales owe their origin to a combination of all these theories 167