All of us are familiar with the famous Disney Princess. We love their stories of happily ever after. But are you aware that these were not the original versions. Disney just didn’t have the heart of how the original versions concluded, so he came up with his own happy endings.
In the the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of Little Red Riding Hood, the tale was not quite so nice, here she was eaten by the wolf, there was no woodsman, no grandmother.
In the very 1st version of the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death to become a mermaid again, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth.
In the original tale of Snow white & the 7 dwarves, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs to be served for dinner. 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. 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, she was put to sleep by curse. The king seeing her asleep rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger removing the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
In the original tale dating 1837, the the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her.
In the sinister variation by the Grimm brothers, Cinderella’s 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.
I think I would rather have my daughter know the Disney Versions LOL
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