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Originally Posted by irishgrl
Walt must be doing veritable SPINS in his grave! Oh the indignity! Our degenerating FAMILY VALUES!
on a side note, many of the original Fairy Tales were much darker and more graphic, I believe it was the Brothers Grimm who sanitized them and softened them for mass consumption...I read something a long time ago by Tanith Lee that was more along the lines of the original Snow White or Rose Red (I forget which) but I wish that these original tales were more available, I'd like to read more of them
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The Grimm's are the ones who made them so dark to begin with, but with each new edition, they lessened the sex and incest and instead intensified the violence. If you can get them from the library, get these books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...=UTF8&v=glance
I'm a fairy tale buff, so I've read the original stories and they're darker than dark.
Incest, rape, child abuse, serial killers; the works.