
How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work
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The History of the Grimm Brothers
The Grimm brothers decided that their book wasn't selling like they thought it would, e.g. Hotcakes. So they went through and took out all the sex, basically. And in that adaptation, that weirdness set in that's still there today. But these are early 19th century Germans doing this.
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