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Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: I thought your point was that the original fairy tales were darker than the modern renditions, meaning that happy endings were the exception to the rule (villians getting a bloody demise is bloody but not dark in my book). Well, the villain getting such a cruel, disproportionate death counts more as "happy from a certain point of view" in my book.

And yes, my point was that more or less. Not that they were always filled with bad or bittersweet endings, mind you. I did say "rarely", not "never", at the idea of fairy tales having happy endings. Sure, there were fairy tales with happy endings instead of bitter or bad ones, but they were not the majority, most didn't have that kind of ending, unlike modern fairy tales, where only a few may not get a happy ending.

And then you mentioned cautionary tales, where I pointed out how most fairy tales were not cautionary at first, but instead just had aesops sticked to them later on, when people started thinking fairy tales were for children and/or must have an aesop.