The Scary Original Versions of Our Fairy Tales

Few people know that the most famous fairy tales are the processing of past stories. For example, when we say Sleeping Beauty, many will remember the Disney cartoon, filmed based on the story of Charles Perrault. The latter, in fact, worked on the version of the 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile, who, in turn, borrowed the plot from local folklore.

O awesome.club remembered how the first versions of fairy tales are. As you read, keep this in mind before you get other ideas about morality and education. The cruelty of the works sent a clear message to children: you can’t do that otherwise your life will end🇧🇷

Due to the witch’s curse after her finger is pierced with a splinter of flax, a beautiful woman named Talia falls asleep. She is taken to an abandoned house in the woods. One day, during a hunt, a king finds the house and falls in love with the woman. After a while, the girl, who is still sleeping, gives birth to twins: the Sun and the Moon. They are on her chest.

Then, one of the babies does not find his mother’s breast and puts her finger in his mouth, the same finger pierced by the poisoned splinter. The child sucks out the splinter and Talia wakes up.

At this time, the king visits them again: he sees the awake beauty and her children, and realizes that he wants to stay with them. But the king is married. The wife realizes that her husband has a mistress and orders the children to be boiled and the princess to be burned. The cook saves the twins, and the king saves the beautiful woman. Instead of Talia, the queen herself falls into the fire. Subsequently, the king marries Talia.

There is poverty and hunger. The woodcutter and his wife have nothing to feed their seven children. They decide to leave them in the woods. One of the sons, nicknamed Little Thumb because of his small stature, listens to his parents’ plans and collects white stones. Parents take children to the thicket. On the way, Little Thumb throws stones, thanks to which the brothers find their way home the next day. Parents are happy that the children survived, because, coincidentally, that day the debts were paid and they bought food. But happiness is short lived…

Hunger returns, the parents implement their plan again, this time leaving Little Thumb trapped to prevent him from collecting stones. The lost children wander through the forest and come across the ogre’s home and family. Afraid of the wolves, they stay in this little house. Little Thumb guesses that the ogre will eat them at night, so beforehand he changes his brothers’ hats to the crowns of the ogre’s 7 daughters.

So, the ogre kills his own daughters by mistake. The boys run away, but the enraged monster begins chasing them in seven-league boots. During the stop, the ogre removes them and falls asleep. Little Thumb steals his boots, sends his brothers home, goes to the ogre’s wife’s house and asks for a ransom for her kidnapped husband. The wife gives the boy all the money and he returns home with all the riches. The parents are once again happy that everything ends well.

The three little pigs grow up and decide to start living alone. When saying goodbye, the mother gives them advice: “Whatever you do, do everything in the best possible way. This is the only way to survive in this world.”

So, everything happens as in the Disney cartoon, only the wolf, blowing the straw house and the wooden house of the first brothers, eats both piglets. But when he tries to enter the third house through the chimney, he falls into the boiler of boiling water.

After that, the working brother visits his mother, talks about what happened and repeats: “Whatever you do, do everything in the best possible way. This is the only way to survive in this world.”

Zezolla cannot tolerate his stepmother’s cruel humiliation and, together with his nanny, breaks the woman’s neck with the lid of a trunk. The nanny, who has long taken a liking to Zezolla’s father, quickly becomes her new stepmother. She has 6 daughters who don’t let Zezolla live in peace.

Once, the prince sees the beautiful girl and falls in love with her. The rest of the story repeats the Disney cartoon, but instead of a glass slipper, it’s simple peasant shoes.

A mermaid named Undine falls in love with a knight, receives a human soul and marries her love. But her relatives are against such a union, and oppose the young family. At this inopportune moment, the young and beautiful Bertalda arrives at the castle. The knight falls in love with her.

Undine’s uncle finds out. To save her lover’s life from her uncle’s wrath, Undine throws herself into the river. The knight marries Bertalda, but the mermaid’s ghost returns and kills the unfaithful husband.

A stream appears on the knight’s tomb, a symbol that his love is stronger than death.

When Pinocchio first runs away from his home, he is caught by a policeman. After listening to the boy, he arrests the carpenter, as he decides that Geppetto mistreats his son. Upon returning home, Pinocchio is forced to listen to the conversations of Jiminy Cricket, who has lived with Geppetto for many years, about disobedience. The boy gets tired of the sermons and kills Cricket with a hammer. Then follows the story we already know, but in the end, the fox and his companion, the cat, disguise themselves as thieves and hang Pinocchio from a tree branch.

Snow White dies at the age of 7. His body is placed in 7 glass coffins. The deceased’s uncle has the keys to the coffins, and the girl’s mother dies of grief. The girl keeps growing, and one day she becomes a real beauty.

Uncle’s new wife finds the glass coffins, opens them, takes the poisoned comb out of her hair, and the beautiful young woman is resurrected. Thinking that Snow White is her husband’s secret lover, the stepmother constantly humiliates her, beats her and in the end makes her a fragile slave. The girl decides to commit suicide, but before that she tells her doll about all her feelings and problems. Uncle hears this monologue, throws his wife out, saves Snow White and makes her marry a good man.

How do you think these stories will change in a few centuries? Will they be demonstratively tolerant, full of technology, or will they remain unchanged?