![]() ![]() ![]() In “Cinderella” the evil stepsisters cut off their toes and heels trying to make the slipper fit and later have their eyes pecked out by doves in “The Six Swans” an evil mother-in-law is burned at the stake in “The Goose Maid” a false bride is stripped naked, thrown into a barrel filled with nails and dragged through the streets and in “Snow White” the wicked queen dies after being forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes. Other tales have similarly gory episodes. A particularly horrific incident occurs in “The Robber Bridegroom,” when some bandits drag a maiden into their underground hideout, force her to drink wine until her heart bursts, rip off her clothes and then hack her body into pieces. Graphic violenceĪlthough the brothers Grimm toned down the sex in later editions of their work, they actually ramped up the violence. The Grimms stripped the sex scenes from later versions of “Rapunzel” and “The Frog King” and eliminated “Hans Dumm” entirely.īut hidden sexual innuendos in “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” remained, according to psychoanalysts, including Sigmund Freud and Erich Fromm, who examined the book in the 20th century. In the original version of “Rapunzel,” published in 1812, a prince impregnates the title character after the two spend many days together living in “joy and pleasure.” “Hans Dumm,” meanwhile, is about a man who impregnates a princess simply by wishing it, and in “The Frog King” a princess spends the night with her suitor once he turns into a handsome bachelor. ![]()
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