Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German,[1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single identifiable author".
They differ from oral folktakes, which can be characterized as "simple and anonymous", and exist in a mutable and difficult to define genre with a close relationship to oral tradition.
[2] 1900 Well-known Japanese "fairy tale"[a] are often found in the Otogi-zōshi or the Konjaku Monogatarishū.
Jeremiah Curtin Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars List of folktales from the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
Hans Christian Andersen's works may be considered "literary fairytales.