Long before fairy tales were softened into brightly colored bedtime stories, they were something far stranger. Often designed not to comfort but to warn, many were filled with cruel punishments, unsettling transformations, and moral lessons that didn't always offer easy resolutions. Over time, most of these tales were polished into more palatable, Disney-fied versions, though that's not to say their original shadows fully disappeared.
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