10 Dark Fairy Tale Origins

I remember being told fairytales from a young age and at the time they seemed quite innocent from brutal torture and murder to sexual assault and witchcraft here are 10 dark fairy tale origins I think everyone watching this will be familiar with the story of Cinderella but perhaps you are only familiar with the modern version in the original version the ugly stepsisters chopped off parts of their own feet in an attempt to fit for glass slipper but they weren't fooling anyone when the Prince learned of their tricks he ordered the removal of their eyes this was only the beginning of their punishment as they were then sentenced to death by dancing on hot coals in some versions they weren't sentenced to death but spent the rest of their lives as blind beggars living on the streets of some medieval slum in Hansel and Gretel two young children find themselves lost in the forest when they were taken in by an evil witch she enslaves the children with plans of eating them but they push the witch into the fire with the witch dead they are free to escape in a different version of the tale the children are captured by the devil and just like the witch he also plans on eating them so he keeps them locked in his house for a few days to fatten them up and the devil did have a house where he apparently lived with his wife the devil and his wife were overweight to the point of being very slow taking advantage of this the children grabbed a knife and cut their throats when you hear the original version of Snow White your childhood will be completely destroyed in the modern version an evil queen tries to kill snow white with a poison apple when the Seven Dwarfs return home they discover Snow White's dead body but they couldn't bring themselves to bury her so her body is placed in a glass coffin one year later her body is discovered by a prince who breaks for poison curse with a single kiss and she is woken up the original version was rather different on discovering her body the Prince did not kiss Snow White what he did instead was steal her body so he put her on his horse for the long journey back to the castle the Evil Queen was captured and sentenced to death by dancing death by dancing is quite simple a pair of iron shoes would be placed into a fire until red-hot and someone would be made to wear them until they die the story of Aladdin was included in 1001 nights but oral history has ensured the survival of many versions of it although it's an Arab folktale it is set in China a local sorcerer convinces Aladdin to enter a booby-trapped cave in search of a magic lamp in return for Vallum he would make Aladdin the most wealthy man in all of China but the sorcerer betrays Aladdin trapping him in the cave in most versions Aladdin is rescued and taken home by a genie and ver genie makes him rich in one version Aladdin doesn't ask for genie for great wealth the only thing he wants is revenge Aladdin and the genie search of a town for information on the Sorcerer's location when no one gives them any information they start torturing people and murdering their children in front of them that's where the story ends the classic story of Rapunzel describes a beautiful woman trapped in a tall tower the tower had no entrance or staircase one afternoon a prince discovers the tower and Rapunzel allows him to climb into the tower by grabbing onto her long hair they soon fall in love and hatch a plan for Rapunzel's escape but her adopted mother finds out about the plan and as she was the one who trapped a Rapunzel she didn't want it to succeed she cut off Rapunzel's hair and sent her far away she left her Rapunzel's hair hanging from the tower window to trap the prince rat Knight of a prince climbed into the tower only to see Rapunzel's evil mother she pushes him from the tower and he is blinded by the falls below some versions tell that his sight is eventually restored and he finds Rapunzel but others tell that he is blinded forever and rapunzel is lost in a faraway desert forever the Pied Piper of Hamelin dates back to a round forgive 1300 according to the tale the old town of Hamlin has been overrun by rats desperate to control the situation the local towns folk agreed to pay a man to lure rats away from Hamlin and silver man lured Virat's away by playing the music on his magic pipe but when he returned the local towns folk refused to pay him in retaliation he decided to kidnap their children and hold them for ransom he did so in the usual way by luring them away with his pipe now eventually the parents paid him and they were reunited with their children but there are more old and more gruesome versions of the story in which he forces the children into a river where they drown The Hunchback of Notre Dom features the character Quasimodo he was a deformed hunchback who was abandoned by his own mother as a child adopted by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame and raised in the Cathedral he was never allowed to leave the cathedral as the local population was deeply scared of him for a long time he was considered a purely fictional character but for memoirs of a Victorian sculptor suggests otherwise they described a hunched back Mason who worked on the cathedral could Quasimodo be real Goldilocks and the three bears is a classic the story begins with a family of bears who live in a house for some reason one day the free bears leave their home to do bear things for a while while they were gone a young girl called Goldilocks broke into her house she ate her food and fell asleep in the small bears bed as she sleeps soundly the three bears return home and discover the tiny home invader scared by very turn Goldilocks jumped out of the window and made her escape but in the oldest versions of the story Goldilocks didn't get the chance to escape the Bears simply tore her to shreds I'm not quite sure what the moral of this story is in little red riding-hood a young girl travels through the woods to visit her grandmother on arriving at her grandmother's house she discovers the big bad wolf disguised as her grandmother but she didn't realize until the wolf tried to eat her and he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for the meddling woodsman who saved the girl in the original version of the story the woodsman never rescues her and she never reaches the house it's literally just a tale of a girl being eaten by a wolf it was told to teach children not to stray from their villages as all kinds of dangers surround them the original story of Sleeping Beauty is somewhat similar to Snow White although a lot more dark in the story we know a young princess seems to have been struck by an illness that put her to sleep not until 100 years later is she awoken by a kiss she falls in love with the prince who kissed her and the story pretty much ends here however in the original version for Prince doesn't wake her on discovering her body he decides to rape her he then leaves her alone despite being both asleep and over 100 years old this encounter impregnated her nine months later she gave birth to twins who managed to wake her up it's really not a politically correct story and I'm guessing not a true on Eva hey is that trouble or not they're not having trouble are they that's trouble some kind George that's trouble some kind in it or not there he goes again I think I'll go and listen hey dig they got troubles I'm gonna go listen

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2016