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Mar 27, 2015
I felt this book would have frightened my 8 year old. The fairy tales are probably more "authentic" to the original tales as there are gruesome details in some. One such story talks about a bridegroom who intended to kill his bride, chop her up and eat her. She sneaks into his home and sees him and his friends bring home another maiden to murder and eat, and upon seeing a ring on the maiden's finger, proceeds to chop her finger off and the finger bounces into the bride's hiding spot. In another story, a witch decides to kill her stepdaughter with an ax while she slept but she learned of the plan and switched places in bed with her stepsister, so her stepsister gets beheaded instead.