I've often heard that fairy tales told to kids today were sanitized by the Victorians. Does anyone know of a collection of tales in their original form? I vauguely remember reading a version of 'Cinderella' as a kid where one of the ugly step sisters cuts off her own toe in order to squeeze her foot into the glass slipper! She is found out when a dove(?) calls out that there is 'Blood in the shoe'! Nice. This certainly doesn't happen in my son's ladybird version! I've done a general search, but not really found anything. Can anyone help. I should add this is for my own reading- I'm not intending to terrify my two year old!
Have a look at this wikipedia list - it has all the dates of the original fairy tales and the books/collections they are in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales
The original Grimms' fairytales contain the nastier versions. Incidentally it was mainly the French that sanitized the stories to turn something written for adults into children's books. Some of the original stories make today's horrow seem quite tame.
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