Talk:Into the Woods/@comment-25700404-20150124172736

The earlier versions of the Grimmm fairy tales were quite brutal. Here a few examples: In Snow White, the Evil Queen was in fact Snow White's biological mother. She also wanted Snow White intestines, heart, and liver to be brought back to the castle so she could have them cooked and salted for dinner. Plus, she kills Snow White three times. The first is with a poisoned corset. The second is with a poisoned comb. And the third is with the infamous poisoned apple.

As punishment for her wrong doings, the Evil Queen is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes at Snow White's wedding party until she drops dead.

In the story Hansel and Gretel, the two kids are sent into the woods (get the pun?) by their wicked stepmother and their cowardly father to starve to death. All hope is lost until they come upon an adorable gingerbread cottage....which is inhabited by a cannibalistic witch who fattens up children, then kills them, cooks them, and eats them.