Table of contents:
- 1. Sleeping Beauty
- 2. Pinocchio
- 3. Three little pigs
- 4. The Little Mermaid
- 5. The Ugly Duckling
- 6. The Toad Prince
- 7. Cinderella
- 8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 9. Pied Piper
- 10. Little Red Riding Hood
Video: 10 favorite children's fairy tales that look like a horror script in the original
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many famous fairy tales in the original do not end happily at all. The fact is that the brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and many other famous storytellers wrote their works for adults, so the plots of unadapted versions of Cinderella, Three Little Pigs and many other good children's fairy tales could successfully become a script for modern horror movies.
1. Sleeping Beauty
The very first version of "The Sleeping Beauty" by the Italian Giambattista Basile is much less joyful than everyone used to think. The king finds a girl who has fallen asleep forever and rapes her. After 9 months, the girl gives birth to twins in a dream. The beauty wakes up from the fact that one of the kids sucked a splinter from her finger, because of which the girl fell asleep. The King later kills his wife to be with Sleeping Beauty.
2. Pinocchio
In the original version of the tale by Carlo Collodi, when Gepetto carved Pinocchio from wood, the puppet fled from him. The police put the old man Gepetto in jail, believing that he offended the wooden boy. Pinocchio returns to Gepetto's house and kills the wise century-old cricket, not wanting to listen to his advice. Pinocchio ends his life on fire.
3. Three little pigs
In some versions of this English tale, the wolf eats two piglets after it destroys their flimsy straw and wooden dwellings.
4. The Little Mermaid
In the original plot by Hans Christian Andersen, the little mermaid who gained legs was in excruciating pain with every step. At the same time, she was given a condition: if the prince marries someone else, she will die and turn into sea foam (in the end, the prince did marry another). In an attempt to save their sister, other mermaids spoke to the sea witch's dagger. The spell assumed that if the Little Mermaid kills the prince with this dagger and drops his blood on his feet, she will get rid of the pain by returning to the sea again. True, love won and the prince remained alive.
5. The Ugly Duckling
The tale of Hans Christian Andersen "The Ugly Duckling" is known all over the world. According to the plot of the tale, which differs somewhat from the cartoon plot, the duckling originally lived in a barnyard, where other animals pursued him. He escaped and lived with wild geese and ducks, which were soon killed by hunters. The duckling was picked up by the old woman, but her cat and chicken also began to mock the chicken. After lengthy hardships, he escaped in the winter and joined the swans.
6. The Toad Prince
In some versions of the tale, the frog was not turned into a prince by the kiss of a good princess. The toad turned into a human after being beheaded. In the original version of the Brothers Grimm, the princess, in order to turn the frog into a prince, slammed it against the wall. The frog turns into a princess only in the Russian folk version of the tale.
7. Cinderella
In the Brothers Grimm version, Cinderella's older sister cuts off her toes in an attempt to put on a slipper. The second sister cuts off her heels. In both cases, two doves sent by Cinderella's dead mother warned the prince about the blood of the sisters in slippers. As a result, Cinderella was successfully recognized as the real owner of the shoes, and during her wedding with the prince, the pigeons returned and pecked out the eyes of her older sisters.
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The real fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm is very dark. The evil queen ordered the gamekeepers to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, cut out her liver and lungs, so that they could cook dinner for the queen. Later, the prince and Snow White got married and invited all the rulers to their wedding. When the evil queen appeared at the wedding, unaware that the bride was her stepdaughter, she was forced to put on iron boots red-hot in the fireplace and dance until she died.
9. Pied Piper
Pied Piper from Hameln - a story about missing children. According to the plot of the tale, the piper succumbed to the persuasion of the mayor and agreed to rid the city of rats and lured the rats into the river, where they drowned. But the mayor refused to pay the promised reward, and the piper, with the help of witchcraft, took all the children out of the city.
10. Little Red Riding Hood
In the original version of Little Red Riding Hood, a wolf came to grandma's house and tore her to pieces, cooked food out of the flesh and drained the blood into a bottle of wine. When Little Red Riding Hood arrived, the wolf fed her with bloody treats, after which he persuaded the girl to undress, burn her clothes and go to bed next to him. As a result, Little Red Riding Hood was eaten.
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