The fairy tale is in prose, it usually has as its main character a man, in whose events good and evil spirits, devils, witches, fairies, etc., interfere; it has a more complex narrative development; a more fanciful character; it has not necessarily a pedagogical and moral aim; it has folk origins, and a development by oral tradition, even if, especially during the Romanticism, men of letters turned to the world of fairy tales either to collect them or to invent them from the beginning.