• Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I’m pretty sure the grimm tales are the sanitized stories. They’re written versions of oral tradition.

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      I heard that as well. Some say that the “fancy city folks” as which the Grimm brothers were perceived got an already watered down version of the real thing.

      Compared to American adaptations such as Cinderella, the written Grimm version is the wild one, though.

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      The grimms are pretty sanitised, who read the version where the prince raped sleeping beauty?