Folktales were a European form of fictional oral tradition as opposed to legends, which were told to be believed. Normally, folktales had happy endings, but legends could - and often did - end horribly. Because folktales were fictional and they ended happily, there were often standard openings and closings that one found in various cultures. For example, Irish folktales frequently ended with “Tá sé go máith, agus níl sé go dona”: “It is good, and it isn’t bad.” The nineteenth-century collections of the Brothers Grimm often used the "and they lived happily ever after" for an ending. These were modified versions of folktales the Grimm brothers collected and printed in their popular publications, but they were certainly reflecting what they collected from their German-speaking storytellers/informants.