![]() Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Fairytales ≠ reality. at 1:20 AM
1. Little Red Riding Hood
The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with
Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But
in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale
was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well bred
young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the
way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the
wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no
woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood.
The moral to this story is to not take advice from stranger.
2. Snow White
In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen
asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead,
the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of
a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this
tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the
original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs –
which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original,
Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he
carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the
prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your
imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen
being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!
In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep
when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred
years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They
fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after.
But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read
this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep
because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a
prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather
fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to
two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her
finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep.
She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
4. Cinderella ![]() In the modern Cinderella fairy tale we have the beautiful Cinderella swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying two lords – with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has its origins way back in the 1st century BC where Strabo’s heroine was actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to the modern one with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper – hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge about in luxury at the prince’s castle.
Fairytales of the past were often full of gruesome twists and endings.
After reading above stories,
Do you still believe in happily ever after?? LOLLL!
So yea, stop dreaming. All you have to do is
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