Review: The Magic Tales of our Childhood
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
These tales are strongly connected to our childhood and maybe they played some role in shaping our personality or the way we saw the world as children. However, it's not always about handsome princes, beautiful princesses and enchanted animals, it is also about revenge and violence. Therefore The Grimm Tales were/are still banned in some countries for their violent content.For example, in a tale entitled Sweetheart Roland, the witch plans to decapitate her good stepdaughter with an axe, because  her daughter wanted her sister's apron. Unfortunately for the witch, she ends up killing her own child. The other girl makes an enchantment and spreads around the house (kitchen, staircase and bed) drops of her sister's blood which will answer to the witch's asking of her daughter.In The Juniper-Tree, the stepmother wants to get rid of her stepson, whom she has hated ever since she married his father. Thus, she invites him to take an apple from a leaden chest and when the boy bends to get it, the mother drops the heavy lid and the boy's head rolls on the floor. Being terrified, she puts his head back on and ties it with her handkerchief. Then, she encourages her daughter to box her brother's ears, in order to  give her the apple. After the little girl does as she is told, the mother cuts the boy's body and makes a pie with his flesh and gives it to his father. Will this tale make your kid sleep peacefully? I don't think so, especially if one is under six.In Cat-Skin, a queen, on her deathbed, asks the king to marry only a woman who is beautiful and has golden hair like hers. Unfortunately, that woman was his daughter, so the king wants  to marry her, but the girl is shocked, therefore she runs away and she will become a maid in another palace. From here, the tale resembles to Cinderella.