These stories or fairy tales give us insights which are broadened as we grow toward adulthood, and the games are ways to face death even if we don't realize it at the time. Children develop at different rates, but no matter the speed of development, by the time children reach maturity they can usually understand death. A child must come to understand and gain knowledge of the concepts of death. Two of these concepts dealing with the reality of death, universality and irreversibility, are complicated by fairy tales and games. Since children are still forming ideas about death, fairy tales and games greatly influence their thought patterns concerning the nature of death.
Most fairy tales depict the death of an evil character as a violent and brutal death.
These fairy tales vividly depict the deaths of their evil or unjust characters. This time the unjust character is presented as a maid who tricked a kingdom into believing she was the princess. She was to be dragged naked through the streets in a barrel studded with nails. In all of these stories the bad or evil character dies, telling the child that evil will not triumph in the end. Moreover, it is the right thing that should have happened.