The Robber Bridegroom and Women's Intuition

I have focused my writing on the Perrault version of Bluebeard and the Grimms version called "Fitchers Bird." But the Grimms had another Bluebeard-type tale called "The Robber Bridegroom" that deserves some discussion. In this story, the young bride faces the horrible possibility of being murdered by the husband but this time he is a cannibal! He and his friends live in a house together where apparently they cut young maidens into little pieces and eat them. I looked up images online to go with this fairy tale and found this one...
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What disturbs me about this picture is the way the men look. I pictured them to be big, scruffy tough-looking guys, but in this picture they look like nice country gentlemen. None of the men are making a scary or mean face. They look pleasant and happy right before they are going to kill the young girl and eat her. Even the man holding her looks calm and friendly. I guess I pictured cannibals to look a bit more scary and brutish. These men are drinking wine out of stemmed glassware! Just thought the artist's rendition was interesting.
My main thought on "The Robber Bridegroom" was the excellent intuition of the woman as opposed to the ignorance of the dad. The story says that the father picked this man to marry his daughter, and "could find nothing wrong with him" (Grimm 151). But the girl did not trust the suitor from the beginning. Whenever she looked at him "her heart filled with dread." It does not say why she felt this way, but I think we can chalk it up to women's intuition. She later finds out that he lived in the middle of the dark forest. This was another red flag to the intuitive girl, and she wisely placed peas on the path when she had to go to his house so that she could find her way back. Her suspicions were proven correct when she met the old woman who told that the men were cannibals and helped her escape. The girl was also very smart to keep the finger that flew into her lap as evidence to expose the robber bridegroom. I think I would have screamed and thrown it away from me and ruined everything! Thank goodness that these days our father does not pick out our husband for us and force us to marry someone we hate. But I think back then as well as now, women's intuition reigns supreme.