Tell a Fairy Tale Day
Tell a Fairy Tale Day is held on February 26. This event in the third decade of the month February is annual. 
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Research claimed the popular Beauty And The Beast story could be 4,000 years old. And a folk tale called The Smith And The Devil, about a blacksmith selling his soul in a pact with the Devil in order to gain supernatural abilities, was estimated to go back 6,000 years to the Bronze Age. French writer Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy populated the expression 'fairy tale' in 1697. Perrault's version of Red Riding Rood was more gruesome than the original story.
In the broader definition of the genre, the first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop (6th century BC) in ancient Greece. The original stories were passed down orally for thousands of years so it's impossible to tell who started them. However, some of the first Fairy Tales that were written and published were by French Authors Charles Perrault and Madame d'Aulnoy.
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