Originally, nursery rhymes and fairy tales were frightening or gory:
• When the bough breaks,
the cradle will fall.
• Ring around the rosey,
we all fall down (dead).
• Cinderella's stepsisters cut
off parts of their feet to try
to fit in the glass slipper.

What few people know: the goriest fairy tales credited to Grimm were actually written by the mother of Sigmund Freud. 😅

No, that's #false.
#psychiatry #fairytale