Speaker 1: Remember those fairy tales that were read to you as
Speaker 1: your bedtime story, Cinderella with her glass slipper and evil stepsisters,
Speaker 1: or snow White with a huntsman and seven dwarfs. What
Speaker 1: if I told you that those tales weren't the whole story,
Speaker 1: that fairy tales have a dark history.
Speaker 2: He locked her in this dungeon. He ordered her to
Speaker 2: do this impossible thing. He threatened to kill her multiple times.
Speaker 3: That's one where Red and Grandma are just dead.
Speaker 4: And at this point she just had it. She takes
Speaker 4: the frog and with all her might, throws him against
Speaker 4: the wall.
Speaker 1: Over the years, the stories have changed, been watered down
Speaker 1: to the virgins we know today because the Brother's grim
Speaker 1: Tails weren't originally for children.
Speaker 3: They murder her, they cook her, they eat her. It's awful.
Speaker 5: He actually jumps out of the window, and it happens
Speaker 5: that he lands on some thorns that also blind him.
Speaker 3: She sits his body on a chair, puts his head
Speaker 3: back on it, neck ties the scarf around it so
Speaker 3: you can't see what's happened.
Speaker 1: The Brothers Grim's fairy tales had a history before they
Speaker 1: were collected and written down. They had a history as
Speaker 1: They've been retold throughout the years. They have a history now,
Speaker 1: and every adaptation has something to teach us.
Speaker 6: And these tales stay with us. They stick in our brains.
Speaker 3: The stories existed before the Grims. They will exist long
Speaker 3: after us.
Speaker 6: Long after the last copy of any known book of
Speaker 6: yours is writing in a landfill. The fairy tales are
Speaker 6: going to exist. They're going to continue.
Speaker 1: Join me, Miranda Hawkins as we step into the twisted
Speaker 1: world of the brothers Grim. Listen to the Deep Dark
Speaker 1: Woods starting February thirteenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.