What cruel scenes were removed from the folk tales of Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm? Detailed answer

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What cruel scenes were removed from the folk tales of Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm?

Most of the fairy tales known to us under the authorship of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and other storytellers originated among the people in the Middle Ages, and their original plots are sometimes distinguished by the cruelty and naturalness of everyday scenes. For example, in the tale of the Sleeping Beauty, the foreign king does not kiss her, but rapes her. The wolf eats not only Grandma, but half the village into the bargain, and Little Red Riding Hood then lures him into a pit of boiling tar. In the fairy tale about Cinderella, the sisters still manage to try on a slipper, for which one of them cuts off her finger, the other - her heel, but then they are exposed by their singing pigeons.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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