I can guess what you mean by &quot;anti-women&quot; -- though I remember there were also female heroines in the stories -- but what evidence do you have that they deliberately placed an anti-women slant in the stories (a slant which I assume you&#x27;ll argue wasn&#x27;t originally in these folk tales?).<p>I think folk tales reflect the prejudices of the time. So yes, often ugliness meant evil, and old ladies were witches, and young women would be expected to be virtuous and fair-looking. But sometimes being kind to the old lady in the woods was the right thing to do, and sometimes fair-looking young women were spoiled and selfish.