This thesis focuses on the negative characters in literary fairy tales and folk tales from Ilača. The idea in this research was to find out which characters people from Ilača considered negative and to which places they were linked to. The statements of ten people of different ages were gathered because one of the goals was to see whether fairy and folk tales have a future. The negative characters are defined as characters that somehow harm, scare or require the hero to be careful. Negative characters and places in literary fairy tales have been taken from the interviewees’ favorite fairy tales. In folk tales they identified the negative characters and places themselves. Among the characters there are realistic characters such as stepmothers, supernatural characters such as witches, fairies, Babaroga, Babagreca, Mrak and animal characters such as wolves. These characters usually reside in dark and potentially dangerous places, especially for children. However, the children involved in this research are not afraid of these characters, they do not consider them to be negative and are generally more interested in cartoons than tales. Although older interviewees are not necessarily very optimistic about the future of tales, there are still ways to ensure that fairy and folk tales remain popular among the new generations.