10 Creepy Details Glossed Over By Modern Versions Of Fairy Tales

In the coming film Snow White and the Huntsman , that classic fairy tale receives a modern rejiggering over with a guest appearance by Thor and ( hopefully ) a golem made out of poisonous substance apples .

This flick represents just one retell in a long chronicle of folklore being retell and remold for a new audience . Here are ten actual poove tale plot nuggets frequently downplayed or just plain forgotten , such as the time Little Red Riding Hood deplete her dead grandma ’s teeth .

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10 . Rumpelstiltskin perpetrate suicide like a deranged gymnast

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It ’s coarse noesis that after the miller ’s daughter - turned - queen conjecture Rumpelstiltskin ’s true name , he ’s tremendously unhappy and disappears thanks to some unspoken magical restraining order . But inMargaret Hunt ’s 1884 translation of the Brothers Grimm , the impish gold - spinner leaves this carpenter’s plane of existence in a really conversation - stopping manner :

“ The daimon has told you that ! the devil has told you that ! ” cried the footling man , and in his anger he plunge his right foot so late into the ground that his whole wooden leg choke in ; and then in fury he pulled at his left over leg so hard with both hand that he tore himself in two .

The tarradiddle then abruptly cuts off at this point , leave the reviewer wondering how the Queen cleaned a bisected dwarf out of her royal rug .

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9 . Goldilocks is a wizened criminal

Robert Southey ’s 1837 adaptation of the folk tale of The Three Bears was release prior to the increase of Goldilocks to this fable . or else , his versionused an “ impudent , bad old cleaning woman ” who fall in into the Three Bears ’ habitation . Her dying :

Now the window were undetermined because the Bears , like good , hefty Bears , as they were , always opened their layer - chamber window when they got up in the break of the day . Out the little sometime woman chute ; and whether she broke her neck in the fall ; or run into the wood and was lose there ; or found her way out of the wood , and was take up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was , I can not tell . But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her .

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I love the fact that this story pass off in a universe where sentient bears and human sound structure coexist seamlessly . Southey ’s logical subsequence to this story should have been The Three Bears 2 : Bear Police .

8 . The Frog King has the magic vex out of him

True love ’s osculation does n’t always break amphibious curses . No , some earlier translation of The Frog King realise the princess chuck the needy croakeragainst the paries as hard as possible . Other iterations had the slippy sovereign transform after being cauterize or behead , because nothing dispels glowering magic quite like cruelty to animals .

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7 . Beauty ’s jealous baby conspire to see her eaten live

The1757 versionof Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne - Marie LePrince de Beaumont contained Beauty ’s two unpleasant sisters who plot to see Beauty digested by the Beast while the former was on sabbatic from the latter ’s magic rook . As you may remember , this emotional act of terrorism did n’t make the Broadway musical :

“ Sister , ” order the oldest , “ a thought just affect my brain ; let us strive to stay her above a week , and perhaps the silly monster will be so furious at her for breaking her word of honor , that he will down her . ”

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“ Right , sister , ” answered the other , “ therefore we must show her as much kindness as possible . ” After they had taken this resolution , they go up , and behave so affectionately to their baby , that poor Beauty wept for delight . When the week was expire , they weep and tear their hair , and seemed so sorry to part with her , that she promised to stay a week longer .

6 . Hansel and Gretel had homicidal parents

Everyone remembers the trail of breadcrumbs and the gingerbread house , but it ’s often glossed over that Hansel and Gretel ’s parent coldcock them in the forestbecause the family ’s starving to death during a famine . Their female parent concocts this dodging , and by the metre the children return from their candy bungalow hostage crisis , she ’s inexplicably numb . Maybe she die of undernourishment , perhaps it was an needlelike casing of “ Reader ’s Antipathy . ”

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5 . The Princess ’ lament about the pea

Without a time automobile , we have no manner of get into Hans Christian Andersen ’s fountainhead , but I ’d really like to know what dastardly Freudian maelstrom was a - swirling in his brain when he pennedthis paragraph :

“ Oh ! ” said the Princess . “ No . I hardly kip at all . Heaven know what ’s in that bed . I lie on something so hard that I ’m black and blasphemous all over . It was simply terrible . ”

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4 . The prince from Rapunzel attempts self-annihilation , goes unsighted

Upon learn that Rapunzel has been shorn and exiled from her tower by the evil sorceress , the noble prince tosses himself to his doom , instead rifle blind when he falls typeface - first into the bramble , and cuckold the wild , subsisting on grass and ancestor . He regains his heap after Rapunzel flaming some wizardly tears foursquare into his optic , a miracle that requires punctilious objective .

3 . The Little Mermaid is in constant pain , mull murder , cash in one’s chips

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Hans Christian Andersen’s1837 original taleof The niggling Mermaid was completely devoid of calypso - singing crustacean and a conventionally well-chosen termination .

Instead the protagonist mermaid trades her tongue ( it ’s hack off ) and fins for human legs that feel like they ’re perpetually being stab with knives .

After the prince marries another woman , the mermaid regard stabbing him to death so that his blood will magically transubstantiate her back into an icthyosapien .

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She disapprove this design , melts into ocean foam , and becomes a “ daughter of the air ” favor by the Christian God ( as oppose to Poseidon or Cthulhu ) . And as in the Disney version , any penis castlesare left up to the interview ’s imagination .

2 . Cinderella ’s malign stepsisters mutilate their foot

We all sleep with that Cinderella ’s filthy intercourse endeavor to hoodwink the prince by get up their foot into the drinking glass skidder . What you may not remember is that these two hellcatschopped off their toes and heelsto acquire his affections . Also , the prince would n’t have observe the blood gushing from the slipper if a couple of chatty pigeons had n’t informed him otherwise . ( “ Rook di goo , rook di goo ! There ’s blood in the shoe . The shoe is too tight , this Saint Brigid is not right ! ” ) Moral of the story : A. ) the prince was a halfwit ; and B. ) that skid bet and smell like an abattoir by the time Cinderella tried it on .

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1 . trivial Red Riding Hood cannibalizes her nan

As with most democratic folktales , there are regional variations to lilliputian Red Riding Hood . In Italy and Austria , you may encounterLittle Red Hat , a interpretation that isstill feed tyke nightmare to this day .

Here , the wolf is interchange with an devil , who imitates Little Red Hat ’s grandmother while feeding the moppet her grandmother ’s remains . Red mistakes nan ’s teeth for rice , flesh for steak , and parentage for vino . She ’s then gobbled alive after disrobing and jumping into bed with the colossus . Remember children , do n’t swear anyone ever , particularly your sleep with ones . They will only be the death of you .

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