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When I was a kid, I loved fairy tales. I loved the idea of talking animals and brave girls and boys who overcame cruel care takers. I besides really loved Disney movies. They all had happy endings; what's not to beloved about that? I could watch "Beauty and the Fauna" or "Aladdin" every unmarried twenty-four hour period.

When I got a little older, I graduated from watching Disney movies to reading the Brothers Grimm. In the 4th class, I checked out the "Consummate Fairy Tales of the Brothers' Grimm" from my school library and never returned it (a belated "distressing!" to my grade school library!)

I was horrified to find that the origins of many of my favorite Disney movies had much more gruesome details that Disney completely left out.

Beneath is a drove of horrifying details that Disney chose to leave out of all of these book/fairy tale/play adaptations. Read on only if you want to completely ruin your childhood.

"Cinderella": In the Brothers Grimm version, one of Cinderella'due south evil stepsisters cuts off her toes, and the other her heel so they can both fit into the tiny glass slipper. The prince is notified by piffling doves that there is blood on the shoe, and finally discovers that the truthful owner is Cinderella. Once the stepsisters realize that they should endeavor to win favor with Cinderella (subsequently all, she volition be queen), they attend her wedding ceremony, just to have their eyes pecked out by birds. Did they deserve information technology? I'll let yous decide, reader.

SOME OTHER SIDENOTES ON THIS STORY: Cinderella doesn't have a fairy godmother. Rather, she plants a tree past her female parent'due south grave and prays under information technology every day. She finds her dresses to wear to each ball under the tree (there are three in the story, not i similar in the picture show). She is still helped by animals, though specifically birds, not mice. As well, she doesn't just lose her shoe because she is in a blitz. The clever prince covers the steps in pitch to make her stick to them, only she but loses a shoe in the procedure.

"The Little Mermaid": Hans Christian Andersen'south classic tale is a 180 from the Disney picture. Some parts align. She does see the prince from afar in his ship, and she does rescue him from drowning and autumn in love with him. He doesn't see her. She does visit the ocean witch who takes her tongue in substitution for legs (and she does exercise it because the footling mermaid has an amazing phonation).

The deal is the aforementioned: The mermaid can just remain a human if she finds true beloved'south kiss and the prince falls in dear with and marries her. Yet, the penalty in the movie is merely that Ariel will turn back into a mermaid if she fails. In the story, she will DIE if she fails. Also, while the prince remains a main motivator, the mermaid in the story is as well motivated because humans have eternal souls, and mermaids don't. The Disney movie leaves out that the penalty the mermaid pays for having legs: every single pace she takes will feel like she is walking on abrupt shards of glass. At kickoff, it seems like the plan is working, but and so the prince ends upwards marrying another, a woman he THINKS is the person who saved him (the mermaid can't exactly tell him the truth, since she can't talk). She is told that if she KILLS the prince, then she can only turn back into a mermaid and doesn't have to die. She just can't do information technology, though. She throws herself into the sea, and turns into sea foam (though it should be mentioned that she then becomes a 'daughter of the air,' entering a kind of purgatory where she has to do good deeds until she MAYBE earns a soul, which will accept about 300 years to happen). How's that for a happy ending?

"The Play a joke on and the Hound": The Fox and the Hound is based on a 1967 novel written by Daniel P. Mannix. In the volume, the fox is raised by the dog owner'due south/hunter's family, but eventually returns to the wild. He occasionally returns to taunt the dogs, and flash his cunning fox skills. One of the dogs breaks his chain, and chases him. That dog ends up getting hit by a train. The hunter is devastated, and vows revenge on the fox. He becomes obsessed, only can never grab him (although he does kill the pull a fast one on's first mate, second mate, and children). Eventually, Tod the fox DOES die, but of burnout from being chased then much. Copper (the dog from "The Pull a fast one on and the Hound") is so old that he needs to be shot, and that is the finish of the volume. Pretty different from the moving picture, where a puppy and a baby fox become BFFL.

"Beauty and the Beast": Beauty and the Animate being is actually pretty accurate, except for some uninteresting details (like how Belle'southward father used to exist rich, just got himself into major debt). There is ONE unfortunate detail that the story DOES get out out. In the first believed version of the tale (by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve), Belle has two wicked sisters (lots of wicked family members in fairy tales, unfortunately). The Beast allows Belle to travel home, as long every bit she is just gone for a week. Her sisters are extremely jealous to hear nigh her luxurious life, and try to persuade Belle to stay with them longer than a calendar week, in the hopes that the Animal will be infuriated with Belle and swallow her alive upon her return. Yikes.

"Pinocchio": Disney'south "Pinocchio" came from Carlo Collodi'southward 1883 Italian classic "The Adventures of Pinocchio." You might retrieve Pinocchio was mischievous in the film, but he is far more so in the book. In the book, he runs away as soon as he learns to walk. He is found past the police force, who imprison Geppetto because they believe Pinocchio was abused. Pinocchio returns home, where he kills a talking cricket (lamentable, Jiminy) who warns him of the dangers of hedonistic pleasures and obedience. Geppetto is released, and insists that Pinocchio goes to school. Pinocchio sells his school books for a ticket to the Great Marionette Theatre. He encounters a fob and a cat, who steal his money and unsuccessfully endeavour to hang him. Luckily, afterward saving Geppetto from the terrible dogfish (you might know information technology better as the gigantic, angry whale from the film), Pinocchio shapes up and eventually becomes a real male child (and, you know, all that stuff about boys getting turned into donkeys and and so sold to evil circuses did end up making it into the flick, surprisingly).

"Sleeping Beauty": In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Beauty story), a rex happens to walk by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. When no one answers, he climbs up a ladder through a window. He finds the princess, and calls to her, but as she is unconscious, she does not wake upward. Well, dear reader, he carries her to the bed and rapes her. Then he just leaves. She awakens after she gives birth because i of her twins sucks the flax (from the spindle) out of her finger. The king comes back, and despite him having raped her, they end up falling in love? However, another big problem: the king is withal married to someone else. His wife finds out and not but tries to take the twins killed, cooked, and fed to the rex, but as well tries to burn the princess at the stake. Luckily, she is unsuccessful. The rex and the princess get married and live happily ever afterwards (despite the fact that he raped her). Perrault's adaptation of Basile'south updated accommodation of the story (a much tamer version) is probably what was used for the Disney adaptation, as they are much more similar.

"Tangled": I know, this is a pretty loose adaptation. But still, I think it'due south worth mentioning. In the Brothers Grimm version, Rapunzel gets knocked upward by the prince before they escape, and the evil sorceress figures it out. The sorceress cuts off Rapunzel's hair and throws her out into the wilderness. When the prince shows upwardly to see her, the sorceress dangles Rapunzel'south cutting-off hair to lure him, and tells him he volition never see Rapunzel again. He jumps out the window in despair and is blinded from the thorns below. He wanders effectually aimlessly (he is blind). Rapunzel gives nativity to twins. He is eventually guided back to her when he hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight. They return to the prince'southward kingdom and alive happily ever after. (Run into? Some of these fairy tales actually DO have real happy endings, even when women have babies out of spousal relationship!)

"The King of beasts Male monarch": Oh, you didn't know that "The Lion King" was a loose adaptation of Shakespeare'due south "Hamlet"? Well, fancy that. A jealous blood brother kills the rex, the son finds out virtually it and wants revenge. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I hateful, Timon and Pumba, distract him. But finally, the son kills the evil jealous brother. Well, actually, in Shakespeare's version anybody dies, non merely the evil, jealous brother (formerly known as "Claudius").

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs": In the Brothers Grimm version, the evil queen stepmother asks a hunter to take Snow White into the forest and impale her (this as well happens in the Disney motion picture). Nevertheless, in the story, she asks him to as well bring her back Snow White'southward lungs and liver. He can't kill Snow White, so brings back a boar'due south lungs and liver instead. The queen eats the lungs and liver, assertive them to exist Snow White'due south. Yuck. In the book, the queen tries twice (unsuccessfully) to kill Snow White. The 3rd time, when the queen gives her the apple (simply like in the movie), Snowfall White faints and tin't be revived. She is placed in a drinking glass coffin. A prince comes and wants to take her away (even though she is all the same comatose, which is pretty weird). The dwarves hesitantly allow it, and while she is being carried, the carriers trip, causing the poisoned apple tree to become dislodged from Snow White's throat. She and the prince, of course, get married. The evil queen is invited. As a punishment, she is forced to wear burning-hot iron shoes and trip the light fantastic until she drops dead.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the evil queen asks the huntsman to bring back Snowfall White'south "heart and liver." It has at present been updated to the correct "lungs and liver."

UPDATE: Additional details about the catastrophe of Andersen's "The Mermaid" have been added to this commodity.

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