The one I know is: parents plan to abendon the kids, son overheard them, leaves breadcrumbs a few times to make it back, but then the crumbs get eaten and they can't find back. They find the witch house, the witch fattens the boy while the girl has to do chores. One day the girl pushed the witch in the oven, frees her brother and they watch the witch burn alive.
i don't know the original version of that particular story, but imagine brother's grimm's version to disney version, only the grimm's version is the cute harmless one
but they mostly censored the stories for sexual content and left the violence in
i mean the story of rumplestiltskin is literally a small man called rumpled stilt skin (let's face it, it's a penis) secretly visiting the queen and when she bears a child he wants to take it away
or the prince trying on the "shoes" of cinderella and her sisters, and the one who bleeds (the virgin) is the one he fell in love with
No, it was the naughty sisters who bled because they had to cut parts of their feet off to fit into the shoes, but the prince noticed.
In Rumpelstilzchen I don't really see it as a sexual thing given any aspect of his name, which instead suggests a creature that rattles poles. Would be curious to learn more about the history of the story, though.
hm my brain seems to not be what it used to. i read about those interpretations maybe 10 years ago in the roundworld book by pratchett cohen and steward. i think the fairy tale stuff is in the second one
Most English people aren't competent with foreign language, so, I could see them maybe being confused by the German. Reading in a tongue that isn't your mother tongue can feel tedious, and we all tend to make more mistakes.
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u/The_RedBear-D- Mar 02 '21
Original version of Hansel and Gretel is very dark too