The Brothers Grimm

[Born under a bad sign]

Arent they they most fascinating?

Those weird sparks brothers cant hold a candle.

What a pair of nutjobs who managed to kindle nightmares with fairytales

how sick is that?

 

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Arent they they most fascinating?

Those weird sparks brothers cant hold a candle.

What a pair of nutjobs who managed to kindle nightmares with fairytales

how sick is that?

But it's not like they wrote them.

And they allegedly 'softened' the original folk fairy tales, which were even darker. For instance, the bad 'stepmother' in Hansel and Gretel was apparently their mother in the original tale, but the Grimms thought it would show German mothers in a bad light.