Written by Stacy
You might have noticed from an earlier post that I’m a bit of a Disney buff. This is kind of out of character for me, to be honest, because I’m not a huge fan of happily ever after. I like movie endings that are unexpected. After doing a little research, though, I realized that maybe fairy tales and I are a perfect match: those Disney endings where the prince and the princess end up blissfully married don’t really happen in the original stories. To make sure kids go home happy, not horrified, Disney usually has to alter the endings. Read on for the original endings to a couple of Disney classics (and some more obscure tales).
1. Cinderella
Don’t break out your violins for this gal just yet. All that cruelty poor Cinderella endured at the hands of her overbearing stepmother might have been well deserved. In the oldest versions of the story, the slightly more sinister Cinderella actually kills her first stepmother so her father will marry the housekeeper instead. Guess she wasn’t banking on the housekeeper’s six daughters moving in or that never-ending chore list.
2. Sleeping Beauty
In the original version of the tale, it’s not the kiss of a handsome prince that wakes Sleeping Beauty, but the nudging of her newborn twins. That’s right. While unconscious, the princess is impregnated by a monarch and wakes up to find out she’s a mom twice over. Then, in true Ricki Lake form, Sleeping Beauty’s “baby’s daddy” triumphantly returns and promises to send for her and the kids later, conveniently forgetting to mention that he’s married. When the trio is eventually brought to the palace, his wife tries to kill them all, but is thwarted by the king. In the end, Sleeping Beauty gets to marry the guy who violated her, and they all live happily ever after.
3. Snow White
At the end of the original German version penned by the brothers Grimm, the wicked queen is fatally punished for trying to kill Snow White. It’s the method she is punished by that is so strange – she is made to dance wearing a pair of red-hot iron shoes until she falls over dead.
4. The Little Mermaid
You’re likely familiar with the Disney version of the Little Mermaid story, in which Ariel and her sassy crab friend, Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel swims off to marry the man of her dreams. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, however, the title character can only come on land to be with the handsome prince if she drinks a potion that makes it feel like she is walking on knives at all times. She does, and you would expect her selfless act to end with the two of them getting married. Nope. The prince marries a different woman, and the Little Mermaid throws herself into the sea, where her body dissolves into seam foam.
Now here are four more fairy tales you might not be familiar with, but you might have trouble forgetting.
1. The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter
What It’s Like: Cinderella, with an incestuous twist
The King’s wife dies and he swears he will never marry again unless he finds a woman who fits perfectly into his dead Queen’s clothes. Guess what? His daughter does! So he insists on marrying her. Ew. Understandably, she has a problem with this and tries to figure out how to avoid wedding dear old dad. She says she won’t marry him until she gets a trunk that locks from outside and inside and can travel over land and sea. He gets it, but she says she has to make sure the chest works. To prove it, he locks her inside and floats her in the sea. Her plan works: she just keeps floating until she reaches another shore. So she escapes marrying her dad, but ends up working as a scullery maid in another land? from here you can follow the Cinderella story. She meets a prince, leaves her shoe behind, he goes around trying to see who it belongs to. The End.
2. The Lost Childen
What It’s Like: Hansel & Gretel meets Saw 2
This French fairy tale starts out just like Hansel & Gretel. A brother and sister get lost in the woods and find themselves trapped in cages, getting plumped up to be eaten. Only it’s not a wicked witch, it’s the Devil and his wife. The Devil makes a sawhorse for the little boy to bleed to death on (seriously!) and then goes for a walk, telling the girl to get her brother situated on the sawhorse before he returned. The siblings pretend to be confused and ask the Devil’s wife to demonstrate how the boy should lay on the sawhorse; when she shows them they tie her to it and slit her throat. They steal all of the Devil’s money and escape in his carriage. He chases after them once he discovers what they’ve done, but he dies in the process. Yikes.
3. The Juniper Tree
What It’s Like: Every stepchild’s worst nightmare
Cannibalism, murder, decapitation? freakiness abounds left and right in this weird Grimm story. A widower gets remarried, but the second wife loathes the son he had with his first wife because she wants her daughter to inherit the family riches. So she offers the little boy an apple from inside a chest. When he leans over to get it, she slams the lid down on him and chops his head off. Note: if you’re trying to convince your child to eat more fruits and veggies, do not tell them this story. Well, the woman doesn’t want anyone to know that she killed the boy, so she puts his head back on and wraps a handkerchief around his neck to hide the fact that it’s no longer attached. Her daughter ends up knocking his head off and getting blamed for his death. To hide what happened, they chop up the body and make him into pudding, which they feed to his poor father. Eventually the boy is reincarnated as a bird and he drops a stone on his stepmother’s head, which kills her and brings him back to life.
4. Penta of the Chopped-off Hands
What It’s Like: Um?you tell us
These old fairy tales sure do enjoy a healthy dose of incest. In this Italian tale, the king’s wife dies and he falls in love with Penta? his sister. She tries to make him fall out of love with her by chopping off her hands. The king is pretty upset by this; he has her locked in a chest and thrown out to sea. A fisherman tries to save her, but Penta is so beautiful that his jealous wife has her thrown back out to sea. Luckily, Penta is rescued by a king (who isn’t her brother). They get married and have a baby, but the baby is born while the king is away at sea. Penta tries to send the king the good news of the baby, but the jealous fisherman’s wife intercepts the message and changes it to say that Penta gave birth to a puppy. A puppy?! The evil wife then constructs another fake message, this time from the king to his servants, and says that Penta and her baby should be burned alive. OK, long story short: the king figures out what the jealous wife is up to and has her burned. Penta and the king live happily ever after. I can’t really figure out what the moral of this tale is. Chopping hands off? Giving birth to a dog? I just don’t get it. Help me out here, people.
OK, there has to be a ton of other creepy fairy tales out there that you would never read to your kids to lull them off to a peaceful slumber. Let’s hear ’em!
That’s great. Original fairy tales are pretty gruesome, some Disney movies are scary, too…in Tarzan, Clifton ends up hanging himself and you can see it.
My favorite is that last one…what was the author’s point?
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This was an awesome post. ๐
How about Repunzel? In the version I’m familiar with (Grimms’ version) the mother is preggers after many years of being barren and has food cravings. Husband promises to fork over his newborn to save his wife’s life because she is “pining away”. Repunzel is locked in the tower and has the which climb up her hair every day. The first man she meets impregnates her. When the witch discovers this she chops off Repunzel’s hair and moved her to a desert. The prince jumps out the window to escape the witch and falls on the thorns and is blinded. Repunzel, in her far away desert, gives birth to her twins. The prince (now a blind begger) wanders many years and one day hears her singing. She recognises him and he is miraculously cured by her crying into his eyes. And surprise, he’s a daddy. We never find out what happens to the witch.
You forgot the little matchstick girl.
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Look up Twelve Brothers. King has Twelve sons and his wife is pregnant again so he says that if it’s a daughter he will kill his sons. One of the sons discovers twelve coffins for him and his brothers. They flee to the forest where they live in an enchanted cottage for sixteen years and swear to kill any girl they meet. Then the king’s daughter learns of her brothers and goes searching for them. She is reunited with her youngest brother who hides her under a tub and makes his brothers swear not to kill the next girl they see for good news, he shows her to them and they are all happy. Then one day the girl goes out and picks twelve flowers from the garden and the cottage disappears and her brothers turn into ravens. A witch comes to her and tells her that her brothers will only come back if she remains silent for six years. Shortly after she is told that a king passes by and decides to marry her. They live happily but she refuses to speak and the King’s mother convinces him that she is evil because she does not speak so he burns the girl at the stake. But just before she is lit 12 ravens appear and turn back into her brothers who save her. The king, the girl and the brothers all live happily ever after. The Mother-in-Law is put in a barrel filled with poisonous snakes and boiling oil (I still don’t get how this works).
Now that’s a messed up Grimm tale.
There’s a worse alternative to The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter, the Grimms brothers’ Allerleirauh. Similar premise of the story: the queen dies, but beforehand she made the king swear to never marry again unless he could find a woman whose beauty was equal to hers – which was no easy task. After the queen’s death, the king suddenly realises their daughter is just as beautiful as her mother. He expresses his desire to marry his own daughter to his advisors, who all invariably tell him that such a desire is wicked and should not be entertained.
The daughter tries to dodge this by imposing upon the king 3 impossible tasks: a furcoat made from the pelt of every animal in the forest, a dress golden like the sun, and a dress silvery like the moon. The king fulfills all three and demands for her to marry him. She then gathers the 3 presents that her betrothed gave to her: a gold ring, a gold spinning wheel and a little golden hook. Then she blackens her face and hands with soot, puts on her furcoat in which she also hides her dresses, and runs to the forest, where she finds a nook within a hollowed tree and falls asleep there.
The next day the king goes on a hunting trip with his men. A short while later he finds his dogs barking up a tree, in which he finds a strange black girl covered with unusually colourful pelt. The king decides to take the animal home and sets it to work in the kitchen, where every night she toils and receives a boot up the arse from the king, just for the hell of it.
The king then decides to put on a 3 day dance in which he will attempt to find a new wife. The daughter washes herself clean off the soot and slips into the golden dress and then out of the kitchen, straight onto the courtyard where she spends the entire evening dancing with the king. The king does not recognise her, but is completely enchanted. Shortly before the dance ends, she tears away back into the castle, blackens her hands and face and hides her golden dress within her furcoat again. The kitchenmaid who works with her spoons a bowl of soup for the king upon his return, and the daughter discreetly drops the golden hook into the hot liquid.
Predictably, the king finds the golden trinket and summons the kitchenmaid, who advises him that the black girl must have been the culprit. The daughter denies everything and skulks back into the kitchen. The next night, the same thing was repeated, only she was wearing the silvery dress and drops the spinning wheel into the soup. The third and final night of the dance, she puts on the golden dress again but tears back into the kitchen too late, so she couldn’t blacken herself properly and a lock of her long golden curls slipped away from her furcoat as she’s summoned upstairs to the king – this time after deliberately dropping her golden ring into the king’s meal.
This time the king can see a lock of blonde hair weaved between the pelt and a shimmering of the golden dress underneath. So the king tears the coat open, wipes the girl’s face with his hand and finds his now slightly manky incestuous wet dream. Then he slips the ring onto the girl’s finger, declares her as his new wife, and they live happily ever after. For their sake, I hope whatever children they end up having will not outlive the parents.
WTF. XD
Thereยดs also the story of St. Nicolas where three children stumble upon the house of an evil butcher who chops them all into bits and puts them in a brine bucket. Several years later, St. Nicolas happens to stop in the home of the butcher and sees the dead chopped up children in the bucket of salt and raises them from the dead. As they come back to life, they talk about how wonderfully they slept and one even says he saw heaven. Creepy.
Nice Blog , Reading
Nice Cracked.com rip-off…
@David-
This was MUCH better than the Cracked.com one. It was a bit more in depth and even included the lesser known tales.
sounds likes somethin scientolgy would write
This is probably one of the best in-depth pages I’ve found detailing original fairy tales. I really enjoyed reading! =]
Also, an addition to Sleeping Beauty:
Sleeping beauty wakes up after one of her children sucks her finger, removing the flax splinter that caused her to fall asleep.
Additionally, in one version, the wife of the prince who awakens sleeping beauty asks her cook to slash the throats of the children. They are to be made into a meal to feed to the prince. As the prince finishes his meal, the wife happily tells him, “You are eating what is your own!”
Alternate ending: The cook devises a plan to save the children, because he cannot bring himself to kill them. The wife founds out and attempts to kill sleeping beauty. The prince finds out, and saves the day, as the wife kills herself by jumping into the pot she was going to use kill sleeping beauty and the children.
I was surprised to see that Little Red Riding Hood was not mentioned here, because it fits perfectly.
In one older version, the wolf kills the grandmother and feeds her to little red riding hood (more cannibalism!). Then, the wolf convinces Little Red to strip down and attempts to rape her.
She catches on, and the two variations involve the ending: whether Little Red escapes or is instead eaten.
My personal favorite fairy tale is Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Red Shoes.” A little orphan girl (in most versions I’ve read, named Karen), who was adopted by a rich old woman, buys some red shoes to wear to Communion. Since the woman is blind, she can’t tell, but all the neighbors kindly inform her about it, and even though she bans Karen from wearing them to church again, she does anyway. Next Sunday, there’s a soldier at the church who curses Karen’s red shoes so they stick to her feet always.
My memory is a bit dusty at this point, but I do remember Karen having to dance and dance in those red shoes for days. She dances up through a graveyard where she sees St. Michael, who says it’s her punishment for vanity. She finally has to beg an executioner to chop off her feet so she can stop dancing.
In the original version of Cinderella, the stepmother demands her daughters to chop off their toes and heels in order to fit into cinderellas tiny slipper…And they do! Unfortunatly, the blood gushing out of the slipper gives them away, and it was all for nothing.
Is’nt that nice? ๐
And to think that young children read these things hundreds of years ago!
I don’t believe these stories were always intended for children, though i’m sure sometimes they were, but it was a different world they were living in with different dangers. These very well may have been teaching moments and not just for entertainment.
Penta of the Chopped-off Hands
Moral is very simple – about the malicious wife of the fisherman. It’s to warn that such actions always come out and can’t be hidden; that one always falls for their own foul play.
Wow… Creepy..
I just re-read some of the fairy tales I read when I was little and when I reread some of them I was a bit shocked, I read the little matchstickgirl and the ones dian + victiore is talking about and was a bit disturbed (that was when I started researching the originals). A lot of the stories include wierd death sentences, people are killed for no reason and a lot of the men are VERY arrogant (these stories are my mums from before the disney versions so still include quite a bit of the original stuff). In the magic tinder box (anderson) the guy gets loads of gold from this woman and then chops off her head because she won’t tell him why she wants a tinder box he got for her. After he kills the woman he takes the tinder box and spends all of his money VERY quickley untill he has none. If you want to know the rest of it search it on google because I’m not telling it right but the guy in the story isn’t really that deserving, is he? Also if your wanting reworkings of fairytales read “the book of lost things” by john connoly it is VERY disturbing I don’t actually know why it is a teenagers book. Also when I was younger I read some pretty disturbing fairytales from “tales from tartary” which is a jakanory audiobook, the “penta” one is in there. Also there is this one about an old miser who eats his own boots and a man who gives the royal court horns because the king locked up his brothers.
Here’s one. “Death of the Seven Dwarfs”, a legend from Switzerland
On one of the high plains between Brugg and Waldshut, near the Black Forest, seven dwarfs lived together in a small house. Late one evening an attractive young peasant girl, who was lost and hungry, approached them and requested shelter for the night. The dwarfs had only seven beds, and they fell to arguing with one another, for each one wanted to give up his bed for the girl. Finally the oldest one took the girl into his bed.
Before they could fall asleep a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be let inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that there was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accused the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men. Threatening to make a quick end to such evil business, she went away in a rage.
That same night she returned with two men, whom she had brought up from the bank of the Rhine. They immediately broke into the house and killed the seven dwarfs. They buried the bodies outside in the garden and burned the house to the ground. No one knows what became of the girl.
Wow. This is exaclty what my cousin should read.
I dislike fairy tales becuase they’ve been changed WAY to much from original stories.
I really like this post =) ty .!
It’s not nice to steal articles from other sites. >:[ And adding things to it doesn’t make it “better” and have “more detail.” It’s stolen either way, all the stories and descriptions are the same, they just added a little more to the “other lesser known” stories.
I love wicked Grimm stories like these, but the whole stolen thing throws my opinion of this article off. ๐
Okay, ignore my last comment. I was being stupid. ‘XD I apologize.
But yeah, for some reason the crueler stories are more appealing. Not sure why that is… maybe the nicer stories are more childish and lame. They don’t really teach lessons like “don’t wander off into the woods alone…”
I think I just read all the comments to see what stories people can dig up more than the actual article.
thats fuckin retarded , stupid story line
I want a rich old woman frm uk to marry me
In Rumpelstiltskin he used to rape the chick every time he saw her…..I mean like gruesome rape…..they even made the movie….which, unbelievably, is as horrific (or even more) than the book
ok so ive read all the comments thank you so very much all of you
this is just wat i need
im wrting a book about a princess who runs away from home
its a comedy though
but i add horror muder romance drama and every thing to it
i take fairy tales and put them in one book all together
currently ive got
-little red riding hood
-the troll under the bridge
-robin hood
-3 pigs
-little mermaid [i think idk i forgot ive wrote 52 pages]
and im addin more
i wrote this when i was 10 now im 12 and continuing it
im looking for a scary fairy tale for the book so thank you guys so much for posting this!
I had never heard of the Penta tale before, but the giving birth to a puppy bit reminded me of the legend of Rhiannon from the Welsh Mabinogi. In some versions, Rhiannon’s baby gets stolen so her servants kill a puppy and accuse her of having killed her baby. In other versions, she is accused of having given birth to a horse.
Many medieval tales adapt older pagan legends, whence Rhiannon’s relation to horses is explained by her mythological origin in the horse-goddess Rigantona or Epona.
I’m no expert but it would seem reasonable to me that the Italian legend of Penta could also be likewise based on myths about sea-goddesses and symbologies of dogs and other animals. For example, the famous She-Wolf of the Romulus and Remus legend is sometimes explained as symbolizing either a prostitute or the goddess Artemis in her wolf-form.
where would one find the original stories from this artice?
I am doing an art piece on the “dark side of fairytales”…
The Robber Brigegroom is a pretty freaky story.
This girl is married off to a suspicious man and she gets bad vibes from him right away. As she’s exploring her fiance’s house, she comes across an old woman who says that her fiance and his friends are cannibals and intend to eat her. She later witnesses a woman being dragged into their house by her fiance’s cannibal gang, and they get her drunk and cut her into pieces and eat her 0_0 eventually the gang gets punished though, and the girl isn’t killed.
alot of orriginal fairy tales are grusome, aparently in the orriginal rumplestiltskin (excuse spelling) he ends up keeping the baby, and i’ve heard a version of repunsel where she ends up pregnant with twins and the prince gets his eyes cut out, i’ve also read one called the goose girl, where a princess gets threatened by her maid to switch places, so the maid goes to the castle and is going to marry the princesses groom (arranged marriage to a prince) while the princess is stuck with the geese, then her horse (who is a talking horse and saw everything) gets his head chopped off by order of the princess (maid) but the real princess pays the guy who killed the horse to pin the head up in a tunnell that she takes the geese through every day and whenever she passes it she talks to it, and it replies!!! this chopped off head… you can read the rest of the storey yourself. also I know a bit about that storey with the chopped off hands, though in the one I read it was the devil who ordered her hands chopped off because a farmer (her father) made a deal with the devil, the devil would give him and his family great riches, if he (the devil) could have what is behind the farmers houce, the onlything the farmer thought was behind his houce was an apple tree so he agrees, then instantly his clothes change and bla bla bla, the devil comes to collect the girl once but she is in a white chalk circle whearing white clothes and is completley clean, so the davil can’t take her and orders the farmer to make sure she dosn’t wash for a week, when the devil returned a week later the farmers daughter was filthy but the tears running down into her hands cleaned them and made them white and again the devil could not take her, so he orders the farmer to chop off her handes, and he does and a week later the devil comes again, but the tears this time clean her stumps,(previously hands) and he is reppeled again and can’t come back again cus they he can’t come more then 3 times (why I don’t know) then she asks her father to tye her hands together and she walks away a king sees her they get married bla bla bla, same as your storey, only when they send word of the baby the devil is the one to change the notes, and when the one from the king is changed it says to cut out both the baby and the girls eyes an toungs (snow white moment) the queen instead cuts out a dear and her babys bla bla bla (oh and the girl has a pair of silver hands that the king had made for her) so the girl and her baby travle into the forest and she is looked after by the forest people, the king comes back and the queen (his mum) showes him the eyes and toungs and he is horrified, his mum realises about the switch and tells him that his wife and child are in the forrest so he goes into the forest and fasts (no food!! no water!!! why??? I have no idea) then he finaly collapses at the door step of this houce and when he wakes up a woman who looks like his wife is cleaning his face, a little boy walks in and asks who he is, “thats your father” the woman says (or something like that) and the king says that that dosn’t make sence for the woman in the room has hands then she takes out two silver hands off a shelf, the silver hands of his wife “but how did you get hands??”the king asks and she says that because she had taken so much suffering and worked so hard throught her life that she had been granted with new hands then the little boy interups and says “but my father is dead” and the woman who is acting odly hostile explains “no. he just wanted US dead” then the king explains how the letters where switched and they all ride back to the castle and live happily ever after :p hope that helps a little with the moral to the storey, hard work and hardships will eventualy get you a happily ever after oh and don’t make deals with the davil and what ever else you get from that storey!!!
I love this artical. im using the informations to impress my teachers…lol…thanx
Many, many years ago, in a sad far away land, there was an enormous moutain made of rough, black stone. At sunset at the tops of that mountian, a magic rose blossomed everynight that mn. ade whoever plucked it immortal. But no one dared go near it because its thorns were full of posion. Men talked amongst themselves about their fear of death, and pain, but never about the promise of eternal life. and one day, the rose wilted unable to bequeath it’s qift to anyone… Forgotten and lost at the top of that cold, dark mountain, forever alone, until the end of time.
Hey!I have to comment that I grew up on these versoins of Cinderella, Red riding hood and of course that girl which I dont know how you call in english, I remember her as Goldhair; she gets lost in woods and finds home of three bears and sleeps in their beds, eats their porridge and so on, it appears that in original version she gots pregnant with bears….
So I am very interested in finding original versions of all tales this kind because I still cant believe it.
Here theres one tale of this kind just not that bad. There are…it will probably sound strange because I dont know english translation….anyways kids get lost in woods, and dogheaded female chatces them and feed them so she can cook them to her children, but they manage to kill and cook her an give her children to eat their mother. Dogheaded children realize they are eating their mother when they see her breasts in their plates while eating, so they go to find and kill those runaway kids. When they come to the river and cant cross it they ask those children who stand on the other side of the river, how did they cross over, they trick them by saying that they have to take big rocks and swim with them, so dogheaded children drown….
Very sorry about my english and spelling, I hope you managed to understand what was I trying to say
I read one version of the Sleeping Beauty story where she comes back to where her husband lives with his mother. At one point he goes away for something and then his mother who is a ogre tries to eat the children.
In another Little Mermaid since the prince had to marry the mermaid for the spell to be broken she has to kill him. She then changes to sea foam. In one she becomes the wicked witch.
ancient oral traditional faerie tales are wonderful…and that's the thing, the oral tradition of passing the stories along…reading and writing was not widespread, so stories would develop and alter from region to region and from age to age…
luckily my parents brought me up on the more gruesome versions, disney was always scoffed at in our household…
here is a version of sleeping beauty i know…
there was a young man who had seventeen younger siblings…his poor old mother was struggling to feed them, so he went off into the wide world to seek his fortune…he journeyed west through a vast forest, encountering a house where three sisters lived…the three sisters were waiting for their father to return from a mission he had been called off on…he felt pity for them, poor helpless females all alone in the woods…so in return for food, clothing and shelter he stayed with them awhile and fathered a son on each, so they'd be able to survive (makes perfect sense yeah…)
after the three sons had been born, he continued his journey west…the forest became deeper and darker, and time appeared to slow right down…eventually, he reached a castle that was seemingly deserted…he walked through the main gate, and all around the courtyards and stables and couldn't see anyone…he ventured inside the castle, and thought he might climb one of the towers, in order to see the surrounding countryside…at the top of the tower was a bed chamber, and lying on the bed was a young girl…barely an adolescent…
the girl was very beautiful, but he could not wake her…he thought that she must be dead and, being dead, would not mind if he copped a feel…he had a little more than a feel and left feeling rather satisfied with himself…
as he left, it struck him that the empty castle was full of riches, and that he could take some back to help support his mother and family…so he loaded up one of the horses he found in the stables, and off he trotted…(just to put that into perspective: trespassing, breaking and entering, rape and theft…)
on his way home through the forest he passed the house he had previously stayed at, only to find that it was abandoned and run-down, as though it had been unlived in for a hundred years…he continued his journey homewards, and found his mother living with only two of his youngest brothers…he asked her what had become of his other siblings, and she told him they had also gone out into the world to seek their fortune, and had not yet returned…he showed his mother the riches he had found, and told her of the castle…she decided that they should all go to live in the castle, as it was clearly abandoned…
so they journeyed back through the forest, and eventually came to the castle…however, it was now covered in vines and brambles, as though many years had passed since he was last there…as they entered, he realised he could hear voices…he climbed the tower he had found the girl in, and as he reached her bedchamber the door opened and two small children greeted him…the young girl (their mother) was now older, and conscious…
he told her what had happened last time he had been there, and she thanked him, for it was not until she gave birth to the twins and they had crawled up her body to suckle that one of them had pulled the poisoned splinter from her finger…as a reward, she offered him herself in marriage, with all the associated titles and riches that come from marrying a princess…
he was pretty chuffed by this (hey kids, rape and steal your way into royalty yeah..?) and agreed…as soon as he agreed, the rest of the castle seemed to come back to life…the vines and brambles fell away and the other inhabitants of the castle reappeared…the courtiers were ever so pleased to be breathing again, and started preparing for the mega wedding…
it was decided that the new king and his bride should ride through the land before they were married, to greet the people and generally show everyone how happy they were…they left his mother looking after his younger siblings and two children, and went off around the countryside…
they rode past the house in the woods where he had stayed, and there were now three young men here, all bearing a striking resemblence to the new king…the bride commented on this, and the king, fearing that they might steal his bride or power, ordered that the three men be slain where they stood, and hung from the trees as a warning to anyone who might lay claim to his throne…
upon returning to the castle, they could not find his mother or any of the children…they searched high and low and eventually found her in the bedchamber…the children were chopped into little pieces and she had a vast cooking pot that she was putting them in…the bride screamed and fainted, and the new king drew his sword and took off his mother's head…
when she fell to the floor, her belly split open and all his brothers and sisters spilled out…they told him she was an ogre and had begun eating them as soon as he had left….they (the siblings) used their spittle and blood to knit the bodies of the two children back together for the bride, and then all the siblings jumped into the fire to cleanse their souls before continuing their journey to heaven…
the king and his bride and their two (zombie?) children then proceeded to live, apparently happily, ever after…
the end
and you thought your mother-in-law was a pain…
All Grimmโs fairy tales original (in German)
http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Grimm,+Jacob+un…)
If anyone is interested there is an author called 'Tanith Lee' and she has been writing some very twisted fairytales for years. I remamber one version of her Sleeping Beauty being protected from potential 'intruders' by having a set of teeth grow into her vagina!!!!
lol don't forget Joplip and Josel or somthing where they all drown and the mermaid and the fairy hang there bodys from the top of a tree in the kings royal city as a warning to all of them
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There's also the original pied piper in which all the children except the lame boy are drowned in the river (not to mention the fact that the whole leading kids out of the village thing has a few paedophilic connotations). I read one version of Snow White in which the prince takes her dead body and locks her and him in a room – while his mother complains of rotting flesh – and has sex with her, but she comes back to life eventually … I'm sure she's thrilled! There's the Goldilocks story where the bears rip her apart and eat her, and the one where she's actually an old hag, and the story ends on the cliffhanger that she has either died when she throws herself out of a window, or escapes and is charged with vagrancy and sent to a correctional facility.
Apparently the whole adaptation thing comes from the folklore tradition, and then the Victorians decided to read them to their children … and then along came Disney!
those are the most famous fairy tale character like come on but, if i can pick one to be in the play im doing it would be sleeping beauty i look most ike her
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My favorite story was the story of beauty and the beast and the original story of sleepingbeauty
Read Deerskin. Its similar to The king who wished to marry his daughter. This girl’s mother dies and a few years later, when the daughter is older, her father (who has gone insane from pining) decides to marry her as she looks almost exactly like her mother. No one will speak against the king or will help her as she is thought to be a witch (she keeps to herself). She locks herself in a room and one night her drunken father comes in and beats and rapes her. She runs away with her dog (a deerhound given to her for her birthday from a neighbouring prince) and runs until she collapses in a field far from the city. Its the middle of winter so she gets up and finds a hunters hut where she stays. Turns out shes been impregnated with her fathers child and has some problems. She collapses bleeding (miscarriage?) out in the snow one night while collecting firewood and falls unconscious. A goddess takes pity on her and puts her into a deep sleep, along with the dog. when they wake up its the beginning of spring and both her and the dog are changed (her hair is now white, etc, the dogs fur is now very long – deerhounds are typically shorthaired). they also have a lot of stamina and run for hours, only stopping to eat and sleep. Eventually they get to another kingdom where locals mistake her for the moon goddess (depicted as a white haired woman running with deerhounds which represent the stars). She gets to the city and gets a job in the princes kennels where her and her dog nurse eight orphaned deerhound pups. Locals often see her running with the dogs in the fields and think of it as good luck. She befriends the prince (he had given her her dog) and when his parents throw a ball for his 21st birthday, insisting he find a wife, he begs her to come. She does but recognises her father among the guests and flees. At a meeting of all the monarchs she rushes in with her dogs(after the goddess has appeared to her), bleeding from her womb and all her colur comes back. her father recognises her and she accuses him of violating her. he sees both his daughter and his wife and his wifes spirit attacks him. daughter recovers and after some time (she leaves with the dogs, prince comes looking for her…) she returns and they get married. o9verall happy ending but pretty screwed up book all said
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Really, really enjoyed this blog and all of the comments too! Was sad when I had looked through all the comments, I’m writing a fairy tale at the moment and I remember when I was younger my Grimm’s fairy tale book; I shall have to find it in the attic or something, I also think my nan has another one. I remember reading ‘The Juniper Tree’ actually. Amongst a lot of the others mentioned here!
The story of Blue Beard is pretty gruesome. A wealthy aristocrat, feared and shunned by his unsual blue beard, is in search of a wife after being married several times, although no one knows what became of them. He visits one of his neighbors and asks to marry one of her two daughters. The girls are terrified but he ends up convincing the youngest daughter to marry him. The girl goes off to live with Bluebeard in his chateau. Some time passes and Bluebeard announces that he must leave the country for awhile. He gives her all the keys of the chateau, telling her they open the doors to rooms which contain his treasures. He also gives her a key to a small room beneath the castle but instructs never to enter the room. She promises him that she will not eneter the room and he goes away and leaves the castle in her care. One night while hosting a party, the wife is overcome with desire to enter the forbidden room. Her sister urges her to return to the party but she ignores her and opens the door. Upon entering she realizes the floor is covered in blood and the murdered bodies of her husband’s former wives hang from hooks on the walls. Horrified, she drops the key into the pool of blood. She flees the room but the blood staining the key will not wash off. She reveals her murderous husband’s secret to her sister, and both plan to flee the castle the next day. But Bluebeard returns home unexpectedly the next morning, and, noticing the blood on the key, immediately knows his wife has broken her vow. In a blind rage he threatens to behead her on the spot, but she implores him to give her a quarter of an hour to say her prayers. He consents, so she locks herself in the highest tower with Anne. While Bluebeard, sword in hand, tries to break down the door, the sisters wait for their two brothers to arrive. At the last moment, as Bluebeard is about to deliver the fatal blow, the brothers break into the castle, and as he attempts to flee, they kill him. He leaves no heirs but his wife, who inherits all his great fortune. She uses part of it for a dowry to marry her sister to the one that loved her, another part for her brothers’ captains commissions, and the rest to marry a worthy gentleman who makes her forget her horrible encounter with Bluebeard.
The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm is also gory. A queen sends her daughter – who is betrothed to a prince in a far-off land – to her bridegroom. She sends her with a trousseau, a waiting-maid, and a horse for each of them; the princess’s horse is named Falada and has the ability to speak. The queen takes a small knife and cuts herself, putting three drops of her blood onto a white handkerchief and bids her daughter to keep it with her, as it will aid her on her journey.
The princess and her waiting-maid travel for a time, then the princess grows thirsty. She asks the maid to go and fetch her some water, but the girl refuses and so the princess goes and drinks water from the stream from her goblet. The princess sighs and the drops of blood – hidden in the princess’s bodice – reply, “If your mother only knew, her heart would surely break in two.” The princess and the waiting-maid travel on, and the princess grows thirsty again. By that time, the princess had forgotten the waiting-maid’s rude speech earlier and asks the waiting-maid again, “Waiting maid, please fetch me some water with my goblet for I have grown thirsty again.” “No,” she replies, “if you are thirsty, go and get it yourself. I shall not be your waiting maid any longer.” The maid sounded stern and furious, so she stops by herself and drops her goblet to be the same as everyone else. She drinks with her hands. While she is not paying attention, the handkerchief with the drops of blood on it falls out of her bodice and into the stream. The princess does not notice this.
Deprived of the magical protection of her mother’s handkerchief and blood, the princess is defenseless when the maid makes her change places, including horses and dresses. When they reach their destination, the maid continues the charade, going so far as to have the princess’ horse, Falada, butchered, for fear he will reveal the secret. In addition, she informs the king that the princess is merely a peasant girl procured for the journey and now unneeded. He puts the princess to work in his castle.
The princess – now a goose girl – promises the butcher a piece of gold if he would give Falada a proper burial. The butcher hangs out Falada’s head on the wall of the gate. Every morning, as she drives out the geese with Conrad, the goose herder, she sadly greets Falada’s head and Falada’s head repeats the same words previously spoken by the drops of blood: “If your mother only knew, her heart would surely break in two.” Every day, she combs her hair in the pasture. Conrad always tries to steal some of the golden locks, and she charms the wind to blow his hat far away, so he can not return until she is finished.
Conrad goes to the king and declares he will not herd geese with her any longer because of the strange things that happen. The king tells him to do it one more time and watches; when they return, the king asks the princess to tell him her story. She explains that she took an oath not to tell. He tells her to tell her troubles to the iron stove and eavesdrops while she does so. The princess, in her sorrow, tells the entire story – that she is a princess and that her waiting-maid has conspired against her.
Upon learning this, the king causes royal garments to be given to her as befits her station, and brings her to the prince’s attention. At dinner later that evening, everyone has eaten and drunk and are quite merry. The princess and the waiting-maid are present, although the waiting-maid does not recognize the princess in her new finery. The king tells the princess’s story without naming any names, and asks the waiting-maid what the appropriate punishment would be. The waiting-maid answers that such a person should be put naked into a barrel lined with nails, which should be dragged by horses from street to street until the person is dead. The sentence is carried out on her, the prince marries the true princess.