Long ago and far away, across the western sea…. Just tell it, straight up, let the listener decide what’s at the heart of it. It was still the time of ancient things…. It happened, it did not happen, it perhaps could have happened in the tents of our neighbors. It all happened long ago, and believe it or not, it is all absolutely true.(Traditional Irish opening). In times long past, in a house near the woods, there lived an old man called… (Bashkir). In the time before remembrance there was…. 
In the olden times when wishing still helped… (The Frog Prince). In the old, old, half-forgotten times, before the gardens of Tartary were overrun with weeds, there lived…(Tartar). In the days when animals talked like people. In the days when animals talked like people…. In the days now long departed… (Scandinavian). In the beginning, when the earth was set down the sky was lifted up, some things were not quite finished. In olden times when wishing still helped…. In olden times when the Lord himself still used to walk about on this earthamong men… (Poor Man and the Rich Man). In olden times, in times when rams were still without horns and sheep without tales, there lived… (Kazakh). In ancient times, when the magpie was a Cossack chief and the duck a policeman, the bear had a long stumpy tail, as splendid as Mistress Fox’s. In a place, neither near nor far, and a time, neither now nor then…. In a land that never was in a time that could never be…. In a certain realm, in a certain land…(Russian gypsy). In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, in a little village, there lived… (Russian). Every time I thought of the story, it seemed to me to become more and more charming, for it is with stories as it is with many people: they become better as they grow older. I will tell you a story which was told to me when I was a little boy/girl. I want to tell you now the story of … (Tartar). I do not mean, I do not really mean that this story is true… (Ashanti). Hill and Vale do not meet, but the children of men do, good and bad…(The Two Travellers). Here is a story! Let it come! Let it come. Far, far away in the midst of a pine forest, there lived…. Far, far away in Russia, very long ago, there lived…(Russia). Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas, and rivers, there stood a splendid city… (Andrew Lang). Far beyond the edge of the world there lived…. Far away in a hot country, where the forests are very thick and dark, and the rivers very swift and strong, there once lived…(African). Beyond the woods, beyond the seas, beyond high mountains lived a frightful dragon. 
Before the world became as it is today….Before the beginning of time, before the beginning of everything, before there was a beginning….Back when the world was young, and the humans and the animal people could speak to each other….Back in the days when animals could talk….Back, far back, in the mists of time when the world was very young….At the time when men and animals were all the same and spoke the same language… (Traditional Navajo opening).At a time when the rivers were made of chocolate and wishes could come true….A story, a story, let it come, let it go.If you have nothing else to do, I will tell this tale to you. A Saam told this tale as he sat with his friends by the fire at night.A long time ago, long ago, so long ago that no one can remember, and no tree can remember, and no rock can remember so long ago that there were no people, and there were no trees, and the rocks had not been made….A long time ago in Estonia, people didn’t have bathtubs in their houses.A long time ago – and yet perhaps it wasn’t such a very long time ago – there lived….
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A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders….
A fable! A fable! Bring it! Bring it! (Kanuri).See: source and credits Folktale and Fairy Tale Beginnings 💡 Have you ever rescued something from the wastebasket? I rescued this list of fairy tale beginnings, but it was not I who made it. But of course, there were far more folktale and fairy tale beginnings… “Once upon a time,” is the classic fairy tale beginning.
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