Comment by wnissen

Anyone with the slightest bit of interest in the tales should read the recent English translation of the first edition. https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-original... or https://archive.org/details/originalfolkfair0000unse It's obvious reading the originals that it they were more a collection of tales with no particular moral, some unspeakable brutality, and a ton of hallucinatory weirdness. Why does an anthropomorphic needle go down the road? Heck if I know! The later versions, as explained in the preface of the above book, were sanitized and Christianized for popular consumption.