What is a Fairy Godmother?
A fairy godmother is commonly thought of as a kind of magical support to a character in a fairytale. In times of need, the fairy godmother steps in to act the role of parent or trusted friend and will lend her powers to the cause, ensuring that the protagonist succeeds and fulfills her true destiny. In most cases, this destiny is obscured by the fact that the protagonist has been orphaned by one or both her parents and is laboring under unfair circumstances. At other times, she is the victim of another curse, whose cure is known only to the fairy godmother. Contrary to popular perception however, the presence of a fairy godmother is actually quite unusual in fairy tales. Perhaps part of the reason that fairy godmothers have become so ubiquitous in our imaginations is because tales with a fairy godmother in them are over-represented in contemporary re-tellings, as evidenced by Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella movies, among others. Yet even these tales do not originally carry the
