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Wilhelm Grimm sits with a notebook . He writes down her words . That moment happened many times in Germany around 1812 . Wilhelm and his brother Jacob wanted to save old stories . Many old stories were in danger of disappearing . People later said the Grimms collected tales from poor farmers in forests . Most of their storytellers were educated women from middle - class families . The Grimms published the first volume in 1812 . They published seven editions in total . Each time , they edited the stories . They added Christian ideas . They made some violence sharper . In the printed version of Cinderella , doves peck out the stepsisters ' eyes . That detail is not in the earliest oral versions . The stories grew darker on the page . When you write a spoken story down , you change it . Every fairy tale in a book is already an edit . Someone decided what stayed and what disappeared . Now we read their choices and call them the original stories .
