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Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up
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RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up
August 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm (This post was last modified: August 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm by Ben Davis.)
(August 16, 2012 at 12:14 am)padraic Wrote: Pretty sure most of Grimm's fairy tales have been REALLY watered down from the the folk tales on which they are based.

I'd heard this, too. I loved Terry Pratchett's commentary about Rumplestiltskin; apparently from an old folk tale warning about the dangers of masturbation.

"Ask yourself, what is a stilt with rumpled skin"
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Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up

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Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 9:50 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Minimalist - August 15, 2012 at 10:12 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 10:22 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Minimalist - August 16, 2012 at 1:32 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Reforged - August 15, 2012 at 10:23 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Jackalope - August 15, 2012 at 10:20 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 10:23 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Jackalope - August 15, 2012 at 10:31 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 10:36 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Jackalope - August 15, 2012 at 10:41 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 10:45 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Epimethean - August 15, 2012 at 10:56 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 11:00 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Epimethean - August 15, 2012 at 11:16 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 15, 2012 at 11:57 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Cato - August 16, 2012 at 12:02 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Epimethean - August 16, 2012 at 12:14 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 16, 2012 at 12:04 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by padraic - August 16, 2012 at 12:14 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Ben Davis - August 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 16, 2012 at 12:23 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by padraic - August 16, 2012 at 4:46 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Minimalist - August 16, 2012 at 11:16 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Epimethean - August 16, 2012 at 8:11 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Cinjin - August 16, 2012 at 11:05 am
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by padraic - August 16, 2012 at 11:08 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 17, 2012 at 8:22 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by padraic - August 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm
RE: Grimm Fairy Tales are Fucked Up - by Shell B - August 17, 2012 at 10:26 pm

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