And for another fun comment....
I was just reading "Jack and the Beanstalk" to my son, out of a book of fairy tales from 1901.
Who else knew that long before Jack got the magic beans, when he was three months old, the giant killed his (wealthy) father, stole everything he had in the world, burned down his house, and promised to kill Jack's mother if she ever told him who his father was?
And here I thought Jack was just a thieving knave. o_O