Introducing: The Deep Dark Woods

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember those fairy tales that were read to you as
your bedtime story, Cinderella with her glass slipper and evil stepsisters,
or snow White with a huntsman and seven dwarfs. What
if I told you that those tales weren't the whole story,
that fairy tales have a dark history.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He locked her in this dungeon. He ordered her to
do this impossible thing. He threatened to kill her multiple times.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
That's one where Red and Grandma are just dead.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
And at this point she just had it. She takes
the frog and with all her might, throws him against
the wall.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Over the years, the stories have changed, been watered down
to the virgins we know today because the Brother's grim
Tails weren't originally for children.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
They murder her, they cook her, they eat her. It's awful.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
He actually jumps out of the window, and it happens
that he lands on some thorns that also blind him.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
She sits his body on a chair, puts his head
back on it, neck ties the scarf around it so
you can't see what's happened.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
The Brothers Grim's fairy tales had a history before they
were collected and written down. They had a history as
They've been retold throughout the years. They have a history now,
and every adaptation has something to teach us.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
And these tales stay with us. They stick in our brains.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
The stories existed before the Grims. They will exist long
after us.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
Long after the last copy of any known book of
yours is writing in a landfill. The fairy tales are
going to exist. They're going to continue.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Join me, Miranda Hawkins as we step into the twisted
world of the brothers Grim. Listen to the Deep Dark
Woods starting February thirteenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.