Fairytales are often much darker than the versions that many people first heard as children. The works of Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Charles Perrault, among others, were originally more skewed towards adults or designed to warn kids of the dangers of the world through much more frightening means. Red Riding Hood, for instance, ended with the titular young girl being devoured by the Big Bad Wolf, while Hansel and Gretel's notoriously grisly conclusion sees the kids escape after pushing the witch who intended to eat them into her own oven. Disney played a big role in sanitizing a lot of these tales and bringing them to wider audiences with Golden Age classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty, among others.
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