Abstract
Once upon a time may have been a very good time, but as Joseph Jacobs said in Well of the World's End, wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor anyone else's time. The difference between the magical world of fairy tales and the world we actually live in is so striking, that to some the difference is their most important quality. J. R. R. Tolkien says that the tales open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe. Even Bruno Bettelhelm, who believes the main virtue of fairy tales to be their psychological usefulness, implies that the tales are beneficial simply because, on the overt level at least, they teach little about the specific conditions of life in modern mass society; these tales were created long before it came into being.
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