Old School Fiction Genres

My Folk tale: The Tree

http://dinolingo.com/blog/2012/07/24/great-greek-folk-tales-for-kids/#.Vj9HzstdGHs

My Fairy tale: Fairy Gardens

http://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-fairy-tales/greece-fairy-gardens/

My Fable: The Monkey and the Camel

http://www.read.gov/aesop/059.html

My Legend: Heracles

http://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-legends/greece-heracles/

My Myth: Poseidon

http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/myth-stories/poseidon-the-god-of-the-sea.htm

My Story I chose. (a fable)

The Monkey and the Camel

One day all the animals celebrated the king lion. The monkey showed the king his dancing as he danced well and did clever new dance moves. The king and all the animals were happy to see the monkey dance. But then through the crowd there was a Camel who was envious. He wanted to show the king and the animals that he was better at dancing. So he started it. The camel’s dancing was really weird and the king didn’t like it, but nor did the other animals. The monkey didn’t even think that that is called dancing. Then as the camel came nearer to the king the camel nearly stepped on the lion. All the animals got angry at this and chased the ridicules dancing camel out into the desert.

 

The moral of the story is do not try to ape your betters.

(Aesop 6th century BC)

I know that this story is a fable because:

Fables are usually short stories. Often animals are given human like characteristics in fables.
They are either in verses or in prose.
Fables end with a moral to teach a lesson.

The short story above satisfies all the requirements, therefore I would call it a fable. 

Fairy Gardens (a fairy tale)

Long, Long ago Uncle Kostas lay under a tree and snoozed off, after he awoke he saw fairies jumping around him. He was about to get his gun when, he couldn’t move the fairies went away then came back with their queen. Kostas was whizzed with a super power to the fairy gardens as prisoner. The queen said:

“Here you must stay
For a year and a day,
And never, oh never,
Will you wish to go away.”

As he was taken through the gardens he saw amazing flower beds. He was then sent to an island on a lake in the middle of the gardens.

A year and a day past and the queen asked Kostas if he wanted to stay, but he said no. The queen was fine with that but Kostas needed to take a challenge first; the queen said that she had lost a golden vase in the gardens and Kostas’s job was to get that back to the queen before the sun set. So Kostas went and looked everywhere in the gardens, but after a while he gave up hope. So he sat next to the lake and stared into the mirroring of the water. Then all of a sudden up floated the golden vase to Kostas, he quickly went and gave it to the queen.

Kostas could go back to his home land again. (happily ever after)

 

The story I read out has most of the following statements that makes a story a fairy tale so it is one.

Fairy tales have magical and enchanted forces.  They often have a "happily ever after" ending, where good is rewarded and evil is punished or sometimes good escapes something or gets rewarded.