Colorful antique illustration shows a girl holds a small dog at wintertime. Vintage drawing shows the girl carries a little dog and holds umbrella in winter. Old picture from fairy tale book. Storybook illustration published 1910

Colorful antique illustration shows a girl holds a small dog at wintertime. Vintage drawing shows the girl carries a little dog and holds umbrella in winter. Old picture from fairy tale book. Storybook illustration published 1910. A fairy tale, fairytale, wonder tale, magic tale, fairy story or Marchen is an instance of folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature mythical entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies and Peris, giants, Divs, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.