[Hiddigeigei]

"No, NOT "for the better for a child", because even in modern times, life can sometimes be unpleasant to brutal and nasty."
You do know that Snow White and her Prince torture the evil stepmother to death at the end of the Grimm's version.

[nopardons]

Of course and I LOVED that, as a child and still do!

Also LOVE the stepsisters cutting off buts of a foot to cram their BIG foot into the "glass" ( which was a mistranslation from the French version, which said that the slipper was made of FUR! ), slipper.