ASK SOMEONE TO CITE A favourite fairy tale these days, and most people immediately think of a Disney-fied version of a classic like Cinderella – but when that story was first published in France in the 17th century, it was rather different. Before they evolved, spreading around the globe, these cultural cautionary tales were often sexual, violent and very weird.
We have the Brothers Grimm to blame for sanitising many fairy tales to make them more digestible for children; they’re also, executive-produced by and starring ’ Millie Bobby Brown as Princess Elodie, is a refreshing return to fairy tales rife with dark themes, violence and human behaviour that’s worse than anything seen from monsters.
