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Originally Posted by greencreeper
It's the X-rated version, surely  I'd have had nightmares hearing that as a kid. Funny lot are the Norwegians  |
Actually it's probably the original version.
A lot of children's stories have been "sanitised" over the years to "protect" the children.
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"For much of the 19th century teachers, parents, and religious figures, particularly in the United States, deplored the Grimms’ collection for its raw, uncivilized content. An American educator in 1885 railed: “The folktales mirror all too loyally the entire medieval worldview and culture with all its stark prejudice, its crudeness and barbarities.†Offended adults objected to the gruesome punishments inflicted on the stories’ villains. In the original “Snow White†the evil stepmother is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she falls down dead. In “The Goose Maid†a treacherous servant is stripped, thrown into a barrel studded with sharp nails, and dragged through the streets. Even today some protective parents shy from the Grimms’ tales because of their reputation for violence."
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/article.html
Try reading the original Brothers Grimm stories and see!
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/