You think they're bad in English? Read the original German! My college roommate spoke German, and her parents had read German fairy tales to her as a child. They all boil down to "listen to your elders, or you will die a horrible, agonizing death." I asked her if ANY of them had happy endings. After much searching, she found the story of two little boys who stole cookies from the baker, and were turned into cookies themselves, which the villagers ate. I was like, "that's HAPPY?" She shrugged and said, "The villagers got to eat that day."