The first whole generation of Disney movies was taken from Grimm's fairy tales and other older children's stories, sanitized by taking the violence out.
I was taking German in Jr High and the German teacher decided a good exercise was for us to translate the original Grimm’s fairy tales. HOKEY SMOKE, I can see why Disney sanitized them. Those things are serious, kids getting their thumbs cut off and all kinds of nastiness. Quite the shock to a brain that had been raised on the Disney versions. Of course she was from Germany, she grew up on the real thing.