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- deadhead05, on 11/12/2007, -1/+64Excellent use of of.
- rdrysdale, on 10/30/2007, -2/+60Not on the list, but in the original Cinderella, the step sisters cut off their toes to try to fit in the glass slipper. Fairy tales are pretty messed up when you dig deep enough into their history.
- SonicRush, on 10/27/2007, -5/+42Buried for the jacked up title. Come on man....
- iceman0113, on 10/26/2007, -1/+24I'm taking a children's lit class and I can assure you that fairy tales were not made for children at all. In fact, they were made for adults, which later on were censored and changed to fit with the times and geared towards children. The original Sleeping Beauty was called Sun, Moon, and Talia, which is better IMHO, than the one by Perrault. The original Red Riding Hood was called The Story of Grandmother and that was a really disturbing version of LRRH.
- BumRush, on 10/30/2007, -5/+24God damn it! Buried, because the submitter is from Toon Town.
Honestly, I apologize if your native tongue is not English. - wassim2k, on 10/28/2007, -2/+17Spell of check, when grammar of check does not of work.
- blazes816, on 10/30/2007, -0/+14In the original Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, when the bears come home they drown her, burn her, and impale her on a steeple.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/28/2007, -2/+14Back in the day, kids weren't little pussies, so they had some badass fairy tales. Or I guess maybe since they had to entertain adults too, they were more gruesome.
- superguysteve, on 10/28/2007, -1/+11The Fractured Fairy Tales of Rocky & Bullwinkle days are way more 'horrifying of'...
- Mononuclear, on 10/30/2007, -2/+12http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp
- goldfishey, on 10/30/2007, -5/+13Kids used to be realistic - they were part of the world not sheltered from it. Their rhymes and games reflected their world. Hence a game about people dying of the bubonic plague.
- amalthea23, on 10/26/2007, -1/+8There's a song that goes along with the Juniper Tree:
"My mother, she butchered me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister, little Anne Marie,
She gathered up the bones of me,
and tied them in a silken cloth,
and laid them under the juniper.
Tweet tweet! What a pretty bird am I!"
It's got a charming, and upbeat melody to it. - LucasVB, on 10/28/2007, -0/+7In fact, all the original tales of the Grimm Brothers are awesomely dark like that. Worth taking a read, really.
- Mononuclear, on 10/29/2007, -0/+6Just look at Pocahontas. They massacre both true stories and fictional stories.
- ryzellon, on 10/29/2007, -0/+6You forgot about the wedding of Cinderella: they make iron slippers, heat them red-hot in a fire and force the step-mother to wear them and then dance till she dropped dead.
Yeah, fairy tales weren't originally children's stories at all. When cultures shift and appropriate things for new purposes or audiences, some of the conversions don't work so well. - capiCrimm, on 10/30/2007, -1/+7chicks love stalkers.
- Mononuclear, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5Wrong.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_mo ...
- dezman2003, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6Please don't correct my pop culture induced misconceptions, it's unsettling.
- eleece722, on 10/28/2007, -1/+6I thought I would add that the original Little Mermaid story by Hans Christian Andersen was not so happily-ever-after either. Ariel actually tries to kill Prince Eric in a rage of jealousy when he hooks up with the sea witch that had taken human form. There were other non-merry details to the original story as well that I don't remember, but it really is pretty interesting to read the originals and see just how much Disney changed them around in their movies.
- berb, on 10/30/2007, -1/+5PLEASE DON'T DIG MONONUCLEAR DOWN. People cite the whole Ring Around the Rosie-Bubonic Plague connection all the time (or at least as often as either of the topics comes up in the modern day), and it's just 100% fabrication yet so many people remain steadfast to their belief in it.
- csrster, on 10/29/2007, -1/+5My six year old brought home an edition of Snow White from the school library. It was great bedtime reading - especially the traditional ending as cited here:
"a pair of heated iron shoes were brought forth with tongs and placed before the Queen. She was then forced to step into these and dance until she fell down dead." - Urusai, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4Der Struwwelpeter, anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter
- thesparrowband, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4damn
- JonTheGoose, on 10/29/2007, -4/+7Honestly, who cares about the damn title. Just click the damn link and read the damn article.
Damnit! - deweyhewson, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4Actually, most of the fairy tales that Disney stole...er...."adapted" were actually rather horrifying.
They just were changed into the more friendly versions we know them as today. - llamagorama, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3And also ever step she takes in human form feels like galss shards being stabbed into her soles, and then after realizing she can't kill the prince because she loves him too much, she goes and kills herself by jumping off the boat, while her sisters watch.
I had this old, old book of the old fairy tales that I used to read over and over again, half amazed at how awful they were. The tamest fairy tale I've ever read was the Seven Swans, about the seven brothers of a beautiful princess turned into swans by a jealous step mother, and she spends ten years completely mute while sewing sweaters out of nettles to turn her brothers back. The worst thing that happens is her blisters and one sweater doesn't get finished in time, so the youngest brother gets a wing for an arm. - look4alec, on 10/29/2007, -1/+31001 Arabian Nights is the worst... thieves get killed by having scalding oil poured into jars which they are hiding in. People get quartered and sewn back together. Some real sick (and entertaining) stuff... read them here free
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/burt1k1/ - Elranzer, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2That was Snow White, not Cinderella.
- allisonaxe, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2And a foot fetishist. don't forget that part.
- mlvassallo, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3Baba Yaga! Man, that is a warped story. A house with CHICKEN LEGS. Yeah... freak me out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga - goldfishey, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2sorry - diggs comment system wont let me reply to my own comment...
...their arguments are valid - but they don't allow for the fact that kids make up new words to old rhymes and games all the time. The so called "plague" version could well have been a case of this in response to the latest outbreak. It just happened to get written down that way. Its not to say that the rhyme was always like that. Its probably had a million variations by a million children over time, most of them completely unrecorded. - kurocrow, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3Why is Rapunzel even on this list? How about The Red Shoes? A little girl wears her favorite red shoes to church, and as punishment, God makes her dance, unable to stop until she dies... or at least until a man takes pity on her and chops her feet off so she can spend the rest of her life properly pious.
- Mononuclear, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3sneezing? Was allergies a symptom of the Black Death? I don't think it was...
- Gwyddyon, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2The plague connection is an urban myth. The first known mention of "Ring Around the Rosy" is in the 19th century.
- whataboutdave, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Nah dude.
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp - dezman2003, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3Yeah tell me about it I'll stick with my nice happy nursery rhymes. Ring around the rosie, Pocketful of posies. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down.
Why do we hate children so? - exomni, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Yay for Germans.
- bib4tuna, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2no struwwelpeter? most horrifying of all. ed scissorhands is loosely based on him.
- Elranzer, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Hans Christian Anderson wrote about half the stories that people think the Grimm brothers wrote. It's worth buying both books (both authors' works are available in complete, binded editions pretty cheap since they're public domain).
- fantasyflamz, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I remember when I was about 12 I read Anderson's fairy tales and the brother's Grimm, the original ones, and remarked how drastically different and mature they were compared to what had been told to me or read to me as a child. The ones that I remember in my head was the ones about the 12 (or something) daughters that would dissapear at night and wear out their slippers as well as little red riding hood. I have to say that little red riding hood is the creepiest of tales. It's all about sexual and carnal want from the wolf towards the little girl and I am amazed that we are still telling this to our young children.
- Sabretou, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3Sometimes the "ashes" is replaced by "acchoo!", which signifies people sneezing before they died.
- Mononuclear, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1Read the link I posted and you can learn what people think it might refer to.
- goldfishey, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2then what does it refer to?
- silverchrysalis, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1i read a fairy tale as a child that traumatized me- the heroine has to atone for some petty crime, and must stab herself in the breast and draw blood three separate times for some spell. ever see those fairy tale books? the red fairy tale book, purple, blue, etc. hundreds of stories, mostly sad and gruesome. i hope they're not in the children's library at that school anymore.
- goldfishey, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2yes it was.
- nutzngum, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1the irony is that clearly these horrifying fairy tales spoke more for the maturity of children in previous generations when nowadays.
I was recently looking through the animated section of my local video store and came across an animated re-telling of the Titanic story, done in the perspective of the shipboard mice and such, with a note on the front of box stating how the ending was "revised" and everyone lives happily ever after so as not to upset the children watching...
freakin' nanny generation. It's turning everyone into pussies. - unorginalityftw, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1Doesn't he also behead the step sisters in disgust cause they're ugly, goes back on his word, Cinderella gets scared and ends up marrying a jam-maker or something?
I read it once. - Lokishot, on 10/26/2007, -2/+2I thought he would at least mention that Red Riding Hood is about pedophile and in the original story Red-hood and her grandmother die. The end.
- mandarin, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1Crappy title... Who are you? M.Night Shaymalan?
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