Creepy Details of Fairy Tales Ignored in Modern Versions

6. Hansel and Gretel had homicidal parents
Everyone remembers the trail of breadcrumbs and the gingerbread house, but it’s often glossed over that Hansel and Gretel’s parents dump them in the forest because the family’s starving to death during a famine. Their mother concocts this scheme, and by the time the children return from their candy cottage hostage crisis, she’s inexplicably dead. Maybe she died of malnourishment, perhaps it was an acute case of “Reader’s Antipathy.”