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The wish-motif is a popular mode in the fairy tales, yet the relative research is rare. This research takes Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books as original research texts. Under two specific conditions, 17 wish-motif stories are chosen. From coordinating and analyzing the elements within fairy tales of wish-motif, including wishes, wishers, wish-fairies (the character gives the wishes), some of facts are found. The creators of fairy tales treated motives of wish and characters of wisher somehow in common habitually. The researcher can find wishes are almost want-type wishes rather than need-type wishes. The researcher can also find that most of wishers in stories are citizen (ordinary people at that time), the lowest level of Brahmanism. This research categorizes “wish-fairy”, the key roles of stories of wish-motif, and finds that the category of wish-fairy does have the connection with the development of the plot. Furthermore, the existence of wish-mode fairy tales affects the models defined by Northrop Frye which cannot be demonstrated in the sample of stories. Analyzing stories by Vladimir Propp‘s Structural Morphology theories, common Function Pairs can be found. This fact shows that besides the elements of the stories, fairy tales of wish-motif share common features of the plot. The researcher also suggests modifications of theory #2, theory #3 of Vladimir Propp‘s theories and 10 additional Functions for the fairytales of wish-motif.
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