Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation

The Guardian ^ | 11/12/2014 | Alison Flood

[Shamrock498]

agreed

[Borges]

They weren’t intended for kids. They were a collection of European folk tales.

[RikaStrom]

Eht Hmmm (looking at the Christmas Tree) ;-)

[Gefn]

Betteheim’s “Uses of Enchantment”, used the old Grimm tales, not the Disneyfied ones.

I’ll never forget sitting in a class, and my fellow peers were thunderstruck that Cinderella was not a happy story

[bgill]

Then there was Mother Goose with Jack busting his head open, babies falling from tree limbs, children burning in their homes, a dude falling off a wall breaking into so many pieces and rats running everywhere including into your eye hole. Yes, those should send everyone into peaceful slumber.