Bainbo: sorry for not answering sooner. You say "....I'd subsitute the word relevant. Instead of being magically turned into various beasts by fairy folk..." If being relevant is important, and by your comment I presume you include/mean contemporary, perhaps you could tell me just when being turned into fairy folk actually was relevant or contemporary? The tale is a story, a fable, a fantasy. Perhaps even an allegory, heaven help us. It always has been, and if the audience cannot get the value of the story of innocence, love and holding onto what's true through all the world can throw at you, then they aren't going to get the message in a modern setting either.
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