From the introduction: Fairy Tales and Folk Tales of all sorts are full of bargains, deals, and battles of wits. One of the great charms of Fairy Tales is the way characters use cunning and wordplay to get what they need, and the way that normal logic and common statements can have supernatural consequences. Fairy Tales teach us to think twice before speaking when a stranger asks, “May I have your name?” lest we walk away with no name of our own.