According to Jung’s perspective, fairy-tale motifs are archetypal images that have great relevance to practical life (von Franz 1972). For Jung the archetype is an “a priori category of experience and knowledge” (1936 – 1954). Jung was able to say that fairy tales allow us to better study the comparative anatomy of the psyche: they are, in fact, the purest expression of the psychic processes of the collective unconscious and represent the archetypes in a simple and concise form (Von Franz 1970). Von Franz believes that almost all fairy tales revolve around the attempt to metaphorically describe the process of individuation, or rather, the process of incarnation of the Self. The author claimedthat “after having worked for many years in this field, I have come to the conclusion that all fairy tales aim to describe a single psychic event, always identical, but of such complexity, far-reaching and so difficult to recognize in all its various aspects, that it takes hundreds of fairy tales and thousands of versions, comparable to the variations of a musical theme, for this event to penetrate the consciousness (and even so the theme is not exhausted). This unknown factor is what Jung called the Self. It constitutes the psychic totality of the individual” (Ibidem).