Comment by spacechild1

You mean the versions of Charles Perraults? These are indeed interesting. According to wikipedia, the Grimm brothers did not even use the original sources for "Rotkäppchen" and "Dornröschen" and rather relied on second-hand retellings.

As a side note, there is also a fair share of cannibalism in Grimm's "Schneewittchen" (= "snow white"): the evil queen tells the hunter to kill Schneewittchen and cut out her lungs and liver so that the queen can cook and eat them. The hunter, however, has pity for Schneewittchen and kills a boar instead. The queen proceeds to cook and eat the boar's lungs and liver, thinking it is Schneewittchen's. Only after the meal the magic mirror reveals the truth.

The death of the evil queen is also pretty brutal: at the wedding of Schneewittchen and the prince, the queen is forced to wear shoes filled with glowing coals and dance until she faints and dies.

For some reason, the Disney version decided to omit these parts of the story :-D