A tale dark and grimm 26/27/2023 Sometimes this includes throwing in more modern Nightmare Fuel. It becomes popular to return a story to its non-sanitized roots or to pervert the popular Disneyfied version. Only after they were first recorded by early folklorists did the stories obtain morals and, eventually, kiddie-friendly endings that removed the graphic violence and changed cruel twist endings to karmic ones. But originally, fairy tales were told to many different audiences, adults included, and were generally simple folktales to entertain peasants rather than teach lessons. It is a common belief that most traditional Fairy Tales were designed to inform kids via metaphor about a potentially harsh world in a time where children worked and traveled and were essentially treated more like miniature adults than "kids". The act of allegedly de- bowdlerizing a story, but going to the other extreme instead: Making it Grimm dark. "Cinderella", Roald Dahl, from Revolting Rhymes
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