A stash of stories compiled by the 19th-century folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth – recently rediscovered and now to be published in English for the first time – challenges preconceptions about many of the most commonly known fairytales: Hansel and Gretel get married after an erotic encounter with a dwarf, an enchanted frog is kissed not by a damsel in distress but by a young man, and Cinderella uses her golden slippers to recover her lover from beyond the moon.
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