An evil stepmother demands a maiden’s lungs and liver; a girl is ripped from a wolf’s stomach; and sisters mutilate their feet to squeeze into a gold slipper. During the early 1800s, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered these unflinchingly gory details from stories circulating around what is now Germany. Claudia Schwabe explores how these now-infamous tales evolved as they spread worldwide in this TED-Ed video.
Why have fairy tales been sanitised?
