Sure, makes sense...Never thought about that in that context...
Didn’t know Grimm was that dark...Geesh...;-)
Brothers’ Grimm routinely have one of their stories suppressed in modern editions.
“The Jew Among the Thorns”.
The past is a different county. They do things differently there.
Their great accomplishment is the invention of the concept of the Indo European language. The fairy tales supported that as they looked how different languages morphed the stories.