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Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales reveals an unsanitised version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years.
I'm not sure where she got it from, but when I was a small one, Mom got a copy of Grimm's fairy tales. I suspect it was from the neighbor next door where she grew up since she'd been a midwife in Baveria. But she started reading and stopped and said we were listening and wanted her to finish... She did but I would guess it was highly edited. The version she'd gotten was the translated German version of the origional stories. She got the sanitized version and we weren't nearly so interested.
When I took German in high school the special readings in the book were folk tales, some printed, some not. Some of the language was archeic but we liked getting through it, since it was ever so much more interesting than what' we'd heard. they had the original Cinderilla too.
I think a lot of parents would be surprised at how interested their kids would be in the origional tales. Might be a book to add to my library......
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