Disturbing Fairy tales

[Volstock]

okay from the eva growing fans of VGcats I bring you ! FAIRY TALES !


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[SpunGirl]

Has anyone ever read the original versions of most fairy tales that Disney has made movies of? They're really gory. Like, in Cinderella, she marries the prince, gouges out her evil stepsisters' eyes and cuts their hands off, and forces them to be her maids. In the Little Mermaid, the prince marries someone else and she kills herself.

-K

[Nieninque]

I read a politically correct version of fairy tales a while back. I will see if I can dig it out. Some of them are funny. I read some of them to kids at the nursery I work at :D

I also love Roald Dahls versions of fairy tales. He is great


As soon as Wolf began to feel
That he would like a decent meal,
He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
When Grandma opened it, she saw
The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
And Wolfie said, ``May I come in?''
Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
``He's going to eat me up!'' she cried.
And she was absolutely right.
He ate her up in one big bite.

But Grandmamma was small and tough,
And Wolfie wailed, ``That's not enough!
I haven't yet begun to feel
That I have had a decent meal!''
He ran around the kitchen yelping,
``I've got to have a second helping!''
Then added with a frightful leer,
``I'm therefore going to wait right here
Till Little Miss Red Riding Hood
Comes home from walking in the wood.''

He quickly put on Grandma's clothes,
(Of course he hadn't eaten those).
He dressed himself in coat and hat.
He put on shoes, and after that
He even brushed and curled his hair,
Then sat himself in Grandma's chair.
In came the little girl in red.
She stopped. She stared. And then she said,

``What great big ears you have, Grandma.''
``All the better to hear you with,'' the Wolf replied.
``What great big eyes you have, Grandma.''
said Little Red Riding Hood.
``All the better to see you with,'' the Wolf replied.

He sat there watching her and smiled.
He thought, I'm going to eat this child.
Compared with her old Grandmamma
She's going to taste like caviar.

Then Little Red Riding Hood said, ``But Grandma,
what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.''

``That's wrong!'' cried Wolf. ``Have you forgot
To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
Ah well, no matter what you say,
I'm going to eat you anyway.''
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature's head
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.

A few weeks later, in the wood,
I came across Miss Riding Hood.
But what a change! No cloak of red,
No silly hood upon her head.
She said, ``Hello, and do please note
My lovely furry wolfskin coat.''


Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes

[Edited on 3-11-04 by Nieninque]

[AnticorRifling]

I love VG cats. Not only did they just explain chocolate milk but also the tooth fairy in one sweet cartoon.

[Amaron]

The original Little red Riding hood was call Little Red Cap, I think.

And it was written in the 17-1800's to warn young ladies away from men thay would bed them and lead them astray....

I do a until with my kids at school on fairy tales and yes they are quite gory.

J

[Nilandia]

Folktales from around the world, grouped by theme. (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html)

Grimm's Fairy Tales. (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html) (Scroll down a bunch for the actual tales.)

Grimm's tales, technically not theirs, since they collected them, but they put their own spin on stuff, are in fact quite gory. Fitcher's Bird is a very good example, of which this is a passage:



One day he said, "I have to take care of something away from home. I will be away for a while. Here is an egg. Take good care of it. Carry it with you at all times. And here is a key, but at the risk of your life, do not go into the room that it opens." But as soon as he had gone, she unlocked the door and went into the room. In the middle there was a large basin. In it there were dead and dismembered people. She was so terrified that she dropped the egg, which she was holding in her hand, into the basin. She quickly took it out again and wiped off the blood, but it reappeared in an instant. She could not get the egg clean, no matter how much she wiped and scrubbed.


The brutality of the Grimm's tales, however, is not unusual, as many tales record rampant anti-Semitism, murder, etc.

Little Red Riding Hood was indeed Little Red Cap, or Rotkaeppchen, and there are at least two different versions recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

Nilandia, folklore and mythology nut with semi-fluency in German
(Yes, I have read most of those stories. I love the ones from the Decameron, personally.)

[Amaron]

I have copies of all the old ones because my 8th graders study the musical Into the Woods... based on fairy tales ( original ones). We talk about the differences, watch the musical and then write and perform our own.

Its a great time and opens there eyes to other ways of thinking...

J