The Original Versions Of Grimm's Fairy Tales

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The first thing I noticed about Grimm’s Fairy Tales while researching is that there are over one hundred and fifty tales that were modified from version to version by the Grimm’s themselves. I have never searched or realized that there was this much written by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, written from 1812 through 1857. Their stories follow suit with other stories from past chapters, (Mother Goose), that most of us have read and reread to our children, that are very bloody, horrific, and not really something that we typically would call fit for children. In the original versions of some Grimm Fairy Tales, according to Flood, “Rapunzel is impregnated by her prince, the evil queen in Snow White is the princess’s biological mother, plotting

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