The most significant difference between the old and new versions of fairy tales is that most people today only know the fairy tales of so-called “Disney” versions. They do not know the old, original version, which is full of violence. Reading through the unexpurgated edition of Grimm’s tales, many readers of nowadays will be shocked. To search for the hidden meaning of the Grimms’ fairy tales is not so fatuous an exercise as some would have believed. Ever since oral folk narratives have translated and settled as fairy tales by several writers intending to entertain readers, especially children, their original meaning has become masked, or at least obscured. As a modern point of view in the company of adults, censoring the original text was
