Thus they have an understanding of what they might face which might give them the strength to handle real life situations. It is an essential part of their growth and education. .
To make the stories more interesting and appealing to young minds different kinds of tactics and methods are used, which range from using supernaturalism to talking animals. The folk tales are made fascinating for the child's mind so that the child is so enamored as to want to aspire to the values and the characters in the story and do accordingly in their daily lives. Therefore themes such as Love, Truth, Intelligence are only a few that run parallel to the predominant theme. Ghosts take up a substantial performance space in the tales of ˜Thakurmar Jhuli'(Grandmother's Collection) and ˜Desh Bidesher Rupkatha'(Tales of Home and Foreign Lands) in Bengali, while ˜Thakurmar Jhuli' , ˜Desh Bidesher Rupkatha' as well as ˜Grimm's Fairy Tales' share the abundant presence of witches and wizards, men with fantastical powers, giants, the rakshasas, demons, dwarfs and talking animals with specific traits and attributes. Many of the fables in the ˜Grimm's Fairy Tales' show children in constant interaction with animals or creatures of evil and their eventual rescue after some suffering due to misjudgment. This is seen in stories like ˜The Little Red Riding Hood' and ˜The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids'. While in the tales of ˜Thakurmar Jhuli' some of the animals narrate the stories and consequently also takes part in some of the progressions in the narrative like that of the ˜Byangoma Byangoma' (Frog and Frog-ess) stories. In the tales of ˜Desh Bidesher Rupkatha' there are stories consisting of human interaction with ghosts like ˜Bhitu Bhut'(Scared Ghost) and ˜Bhut Bou'(Ghost Wife), though both these stories take very different vein of tones, upholding different attributes.