Boycott Snow White Movie 🍿
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The Brother's Grimm were German so it makes sense, the original fairy tail is so bad didn't they put red hot iron shoes on the evil queen's feet?
They were not called Grimm Fairy Tales for nothing.
I read a German fairy tale every evening to my daughter, and the grimness goes much deeper. In the original cinderella, the two evil stepsisters cut part of their feet off to fit into the shoe, and the prince is made aware of it by birds singing from a tree that the false bride is bleeding. Also heavily recommended are the fairytales by H.C. Andersen and Johann Wilhelm Wolf.
There are other fairytales were the protagonist cuts a witch's head off simply for disagreeing with him, another where someone kills his own grandmother to sell her body ("Der kleine Klaus und der große Klaus" (https://maerchen.com/andersen/der-kleine-klaus-und-der-grosse-klaus.php, just dump it in DeepL or something)).
There is another fairytale where a prince cuts off the heads of his children to revive someone, and it is explicitly described how the revived man uses his hand to smear blood on the childrens' cut-off heads to heal their wounds, and it is then described how the children just continue playing (it's the fairytale "Der treue Johannes" (https://maerchen.com/grimm/der-treue-johannes.php)).
One highlight is "The Little Mermaid" by H.C. Andersen (yes, Disney didn't come up with this story, (https://maerchen.com/andersen/die-kleine-seejungfrau.php)) because it doesn't have a happy ending. Long story short, the prince finds a hotter princess, marries her and friendzones the mermaid, which then dies.
Many fairytales are also very based and redpilled, e.g. 'König Drosselbart' (https://maerchen.com/grimm/koenig-drosselbart.php) where a princess has many offers by kings and princes, but ridicules them all, and her father at one point proclaims that the next beggar should be her man, and he marries her to a beggar, but the story has a nice twist. There are also other stories of princesses having too high standards or being rude, and being punished for it.
There is also a fairytale where a man asks the grim reaper to be godfather to his son (Der Gevatter Tod, https://maerchen.com/grimm/der-gevatter-tod.php), and it doesn't have a happy ending.
Despite the gruesome nature of these stories, I think they are of high value and educational. Maybe you find value in them, too. The website I linked to is very nice, and DeepL should provide sufficient translations. Have fun! :)
Yikes! On the whole, I think I will stick with Greek mythology.