The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe (opens in new tab)

Dig into the infamous tales of the Brothers Grimm, and explore how these gory stories evolved as they spread around the world\. -- 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’s now Germany\. Claudia Schwabe explores how these now-infamous tales ...