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Violence in Fairy Tales

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Adult aficionados like Zipes and his readership may appreciate these stark realities, but as the tales were edited and revised for a juvenile audience, their brutality becomes much more problemmatic. Maria Tatar confesses after rehearsing the self-explanatory plot of a relatively obscure story, How Children Played Butcher With Each Other, (Grimm 650-1) that much of the material that came into the Grimms hands was hardly suited for children (181), and would likely disturb many adults
There is some evidence that parents have always censored the worst incidents from the stories they tell or read their children. In a discussion of Taiwanese variants of a Little Red Riding Hood-like tale involving a tiger, Wolfram Eberhard notes that relatively few oral accounts linger on the tiger actually devouring people: Perhaps mothers did not want to frighten their children by telling this detail, an additional violence in a violent story (31). Most commercial adaptations for juvenile markets have adopted a similar approach; in some versions of Little Red Riding Hood, for example, nobody is eaten and even the wolf simply runs away when his scheme fails (Shavit 155)......