But in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, certain book editors, as well as the Walt Disney Studios, took hold of fairy tales and changed them. Was there something wrong with us, we wondered, that we were so enchanted by nursery stories? And why, we wondered, were fairy tales considered suitable for little children anyway? Some of the stories we read in the Brothers Grimm volumes seemed grim indeed! There were queens who danced to death in red-hot shoes, wicked witches burned up in ovens, ghostly children weeping blood red tears, and wolves lurking in Granny's nightclothes.Įventually we learned that in previous centuries fairy tales weren't considered children's stories - back then, they were told to everyone, young and old alike. But we kept on reading fairy tales year after year, and they were just as wonderful as ever. When we were kids, we were told that fairy tales were only for little children - which implies, of course, that we'd lose our interest as we grew up.
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