degrimm1-10, Exercise 2: Three myths

Model answer (one possible choice):

1. "The Grimms collected the tales from German peasants." Many of the informants were educated, middle-class acquaintances, some with French-speaking family roots, and some tales came from printed books, so the picture is only partly right (check).
2. "The tales were once much darker and were cleaned up for children." Some matters were softened and others sharpened, and many changes were stylistic, so the direction of change is mixed (check).
3. "The popular film version is the Grimm version." Films often draw on Perrault, on English translations and on earlier films, so they may differ from every Grimm edition (check each case).

Other valid choices include "The Grimms were only storytellers" (they were philologists who also compiled a dictionary) or "A tale really means one thing" (readings differ by school and few can be tested).