A fairy tale is a fictional story that may contain characters folklore, such as fairies, goblins, elves, witches, mermaids, trolls, giants, goblins and talking animals and spells - commonly represented in an unlikely sequence of events. In contemporary language as well as outside the literary context, the term is also used to describe something that is related to princesses or anything related to them, as the terms "a fairy tale ending" (a happy ending) or "a fairy tale romance", though not all fairy tales end with ...