It's probably no coincidence that, within that skeletal framework, Slender Man also evokes some familiar fairy tale elements; psychologists are finding that there is good reason that those stories often follow certain set formulae.
In 2013 for example, Moyne shire released an extensive coastal hazard assessment report for popular holiday town Port Fairy, finding that several hundred buildings would be at risk of inundation by seawater as ocean levels rise.
"They are fairy tales that have been proved false.
It was all Dingley Dell this, and Fairy Dust that.
Those fairy tales that were read to us as kids involved fairies.
A fairy house that sticks out will also attract trolls, or other predators, which hurt fairies and gnomes.
Also, people who don't like fairies, called "stompers", will stomp on a fairy house that is too big and obtrusive in the woods.
That's no fairy tale fiction, that's high school.
Have a bottled fairy that can revive you in the event that you die.
Talk about fairy dust, that her fairy dress is made of special fairy material using fairy needles and that she eats fairy food.
