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but an example or two, please?
The one I remember is Sleeping Beauty. Apparently Jakob und Wilhelm decided that a story centred on the practice of necrophilia might not be such a hot seller, hence the sanitised version we are familiar with.
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The one I remember is Sleeping Beauty. Apparently Jakob und Wilhelm decided that a story centred on the practice of necrophilia might not be such a hot seller, hence the sanitised version we are familiar with.
And thank heavens they did. Life would be grim, indeed, without Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty suite. Or the Nutcracker suite. Or the Romeo and Juliet suite. Hang on, that last one was Billy the Bard, wasn't it. Damn, analogy ain't what it used to be.
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wow, if you are really interested you must get a copy of a book called Best Loved Folktales of the World (ISBN 0-385-18949-4). It has the original versions of Grimms' and other fairy tales.
Isn't it nice how things work out sometimes. I started packing up all of my books right away for my big move because I want to catalogue them all. I just happen to have packed up that book last night so it was easy to find in my list.
Just a teaser...the Cinderalla story is actually an amalgam of a couple of stories from different countries - and they do not finish like the Disney version.
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And speaking of Cinderella, I recall reading that the whole glass slipper thing was the result of a mistranslation of the French for "satin." Why people ever bought that glass slipper idea, I'll never know, but it is so ensconced now that I doubt you could eradicate it with gasoline and flamethrower.
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It was actually a mistranslation using a homonym. The original word was "vair" meaning the fur of the Siberian grey squirrel or one of the furs of the crown; an expensive fur at the time. The word "verre" is the French word for glass. Cinderella was written by Charles Perreualt, a French civil servant, in before 1720. He also wrote, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in boots, Beauty and the Beast,
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Thanks, Rouspeteur. I knew it was something like that, but my French is limited to food and wine.
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>but my French is limited to food and wine.How sad for your Sparteye ma chouette, you are missing the best part  
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Yes, Sparteye, food and wine are not the only things the French love.
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Right. You forgot bidets.
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