In the original tale, the Queen actually asks
for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner
that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is
jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his
castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a
dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. In the Grimm version,
the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot
iron shoes. ♫
In the original, the young woman is put to
sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss
of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather
fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she
gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the
children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was
keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of
two kids. ♫
The original story of the little mermaid is
that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she
loves him too much and kills herself instead. ♫
The story was very similar to the modern one
with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking
behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm
brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off
parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper –
hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two
pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the
rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge
about in luxury at the prince’s castle. ♫
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