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Perhaps many will be quite surprised to learn that some of the Disney cartoons that have been so hugely popular among children for several generations, in fact, initially based by no means on good and positive stories.
It may be shocking, but the basis of these very stories were violence, murders, cannibalism and other chilling events.
Original versions of fairy tales
It is generally accepted that Disney, by changing the original versions of fairy tales, made them kind and pleasant, and therefore more accessible to the general public. However, there are those who accuses Disney of unfairly misrepresenting the original stories.
Some, the very first versions of fairy tales, became known to us thanks to the Internet and discussions on various forums. However, there are many Disney stories that actually look different, and we don’t even know. about the "substitution" of the plot.
Below are examples of lesser-known versions of popular cartoons that have grown up with more than one generation of young viewers.
Pinocchio Disney
1. Pinocchio: corpses and murder
Original version: Pinocchio becomes a murderer, and in the end he dies
In the very first version of the tale, Pinocchio was punished by death for his disobedience. wooden boy ruthless in relation to old Geppetto and constantly teases him. The old man begins to pursue Pinocchio and ends up in prison for allegedly offending the boy.
Pinocchio returns home, where he meets a hundred-year-old cricket, who tells him that naughty children turn into donkeys. However, the wooden boy, not wanting to listen to wise advice, in a fit of anger, he throws a hammer at the cricket and kills him.
Pinocchio ends his life by burning in a fire. Before he dies, he sees the same fairy who, in the Disney version, saves him. The wooden boy is choking on the smoke. Witnesses of his deathbed suffering are a cat with a mutilated paw, which Pinocchio had previously bitten off, and a fox. Both animals were hanged by an evil wooden boy.
The editors found this ending to be too angry and sad. Therefore, it was decided to change the second part and add a different ending to make the story more positive and kind.
Thanks to the efforts of Walt Disney, after numerous misadventures that Pinocchio experienced because of his own disobedience and stubbornness, he returns to his old father and becomes a good boy.
History of Aladdin
2. Dismemberment in Aladdin
In the original version: Kassim was mutilated and brutally killed
For those who don't know, Kassim is the father that Aladdin lost in his early childhood. This character appears in the third part of the film. Kassim is the leader of the Forty Thieves. Surely, everyone has heard about this gang.
The stories of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" are beginning to intertwine. To go to the wedding of his son and Princess Jasmine, Cassim had to leave the villainous trade for a while.
In the original version, Ali Baba learns what words to say to get into the cave where the forty thieves keep their treasures. Then he tells about the gold to his brother Cassim, also telling him magic words, thanks to which he still ends up in the treasury.
However, from the greedy excitement that seized him at the sight of such untold wealth, Cassim forgets the magic spells and cannot leave the cave. At this moment, the robbers return. Seeing an unexpected guest, they kill him in cold blood.
Fallen princesses: what happened to the heroines of fairy tales after the wedding?Cassim's body was then cut into pieces. The dismembered limbs were left by the robbers at the entrance to the cave, as a warning to others who want to enter the treasury.
At the end of the tale, after numerous scenes of murder, only one slave remains alive.
Cinderella: original version
3. Killer Cinderella
In the original version: Cinderella kills the evil stepmother
Perhaps each of us is familiar with two versions of the tale about the poor girl who was offended by her evil stepmother. Cinderella by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm is based on the fairy tale by Giambattista Basile.
In Basile's version, there is another character - the governess, who at first is very supportive of Cinderella. The girl cries to her about her bitter fate and complains about her evil stepmother. The governess advises her to kill the one who makes Cinderella's life unbearable.
With one blow of the chest lid to the neck, the girl takes the life of her torturer. The governess marries Cinderella's father. However, her life becomes even sadder and harder than before.
As it turned out, the new stepmother has seven daughters, whom she hid. When they were introduced to Cinderella's father, he forgets about his own daughter. Now Cinderella is doomed to hard round-the-clock work. She is forced to do the most menial chores around the house.
5 Little-Known Versions of Famous Children's Fairy TalesThe final part of the story is very similar to the traditional fairy tale. Disney did not change the ending of the story, since in any version of the fairy tale about Cinderella - a happy ending. The poor girl, after suffering trials, marries a handsome prince.
And with Charles Perrault, and with the Brothers Grimm, and with Basile, a simple maid becomes a princess. Disney, which is an adherent of the "happy ending", did not change the final part of the story, but only I added positive and joyful faces to it.
So, the story about a poor girl with whom a prince falls in love was not always so harmless and pure as Disney presents us with.
Sleeping Beauty - original
4 Sleeping Beauty Is Among The Dead
In the original version: the sleeping beauty rests among the decaying corpses
Everyone remembers how in the famous fairy tale the witch cursed the girl. At the age of fifteen, the beauty was supposed to die from an injection with a spindle. However, another sorceress softened the curse by promising that it will not be death, but a dream of a hundred years.
The wild rose bushes that grew thickly around the castle became a thorny trap for hundreds of young people who, in the hope of seeing the sleeping princess, tried to pass these thorns. They all died, entangled in the thickets. They died a terrible and painful death.
Exactly one hundred years later, as the second sorceress had predicted, the curse was lifted. Abundant vegetation, which became the grave for many young guys, turned into wonderful flowers.
The Prince, passing by on horseback, sees Beauty. With his kiss, he brings her back to life. It was this happy ending that Disney filmed.
The original version of this story came from the same Giambattista Basile. And his scenario of the fairy tale was much less pure and joyful.
In his version, the king rapes the sleeping Beauty. In a dream, a girl becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. Then she wakes up, but her life is overshadowed by the machinations of the evil queen, who, nevertheless, in the end burns in fire destined for Beauty.
Despite the fact that the end of the tale is also happy, it is hard not to admit that the entire plot of the story is filled with disgusting scenes of violence and murder.
Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid
5. Bloodthirsty Little Mermaid
Disney made the cartoon "The Little Mermaid", based on the plot of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen). In this story, for the sake of the prince, the young Mermaid makes huge sacrifices: her tongue is cut off, and her legs bleed.
Mermaid endures unbearable pain in order to stay with his beloved. However, the prince marries another. Unable to kill the one she loves more than herself and her family, the Little Mermaid commits suicide by turning into sea foam.
However, Andersen himself came up with his tale based on another story written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque (Friedrich de la Motte Fouque). His version of "Ondine" is more violent and sad.
Having received a human soul, Ondine marries a knight. However, numerous relatives of the mermaid are plotting, thus interfering with her happiness with her husband. In addition, the knight falls in love with Bertida, who settles in their castle.
Disney cartoons pale in comparison with Soviet cartoonsIn order to save her lover and his new passion from the wrath of her uncle, the evil merman, Ondine commits suicide by throwing herself into the river. The knight marries Bertida. However, Ondine returns as a mermaid and kills an unfaithful husband.
A stream suddenly appears near the knight's grave, which is a kind of symbol that the mermaid and her lover are together even in the next world, and their love is stronger than life and death.
Fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Thunders
6. Torture of the unfortunate Snow White
In the original version: Snow White was tortured and became a slave
In the story told by the Brothers Grimm, the queen attempted on the life of Snow White three times: at first she tried to strangle the girl by tightening her corset so tightly that made it impossible for her to breathe.
Then she combs the girl's hair poison comb. When this method did not bring the desired result, the evil queen decides poison your stepdaughter with an apple, biting which she dies.
The dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin. The prince passing by, seeing the beautiful deceased, decides to take the coffin home. With a strong push, a piece of poisoned apple falls out of Snow White's throat, and she comes to life.
At the wedding of the stepdaughter and the handsome prince, the evil queen dances in hot iron shoes, then dies from burns to his legs.
Perhaps many will be surprised by the fact that the Brothers Grimm borrowed the idea of a fairy tale from the same Basile, whose version was distinguished by particular bloodthirstiness and numerous scenes of violence.
According to Basile's story, the girl dies at the age of seven. Her body is placed in seven glass coffins. The key to the coffin is kept by the uncle of the deceased, as the girl's mother dies of grief. In a dream, the girl continues to grow and by a certain age becomes a real beauty.
Uncle's wife finds the coffin with the deceased. She pulls her hair, the poisonous comb falls out, and the girl comes to life. Suspecting the poor thing that she is her husband's mistress, the woman begins to treat her badly.
Snow White has her hair cut off, beaten half to death, and made into a slave. The poor thing is daily humiliated and beaten. This causes black circles under her eyes and bleeding from her mouth.
The girl decides to take her own life, but before that she talks about her plight to the doll. Snow White's uncle, having overheard her confession, understands everything. He divorces his wife, heals his crippled niece, then marries her to a rich and good man.
History of Hercules
7 Self-immolation Of Hercules
In the original version: Hercules burns himself
Zeus, the supreme god, rapes Amphitryon's wife, Alcmene, who also has sex with her that same night. As a result, Alcmene is pregnant with two babies from different fathers. From Zeus son Hercules is born.
The boy grows up, becomes a great and valiant warrior and marries the beautiful Megara. Being in a state of madness, which Hera sent to him, Hercules kills his children.
At the end of the story, his fourth wife hangs herself after seeing Hercules rip off his clothes along with his skin. He's trying to burn himself alive. However, only his flesh burns in the funeral pyre. The immortal part of his being returns to Olympus, where he lives happily ever after with Hera.
8. Fox and death hunting dog
In the original version: both animals die a terrible death
Copper and Chief, a brave hunting dog, have a rocky relationship. Copper hates Chief and is jealous of his master. It is obvious that the owner singles out Chifa from all his dogs. This is not surprising: after all, somehow Chief saved him from a bear attack, while Copper, frightened by a huge beast, simply hid.
Tod is the fox who always teased the master's dogs, driving them to madness. One day, after another provocation from Tod, the Chief breaks off the chain. In pursuit of a daring fox, Chief gets hit by a train and dies.
Grieving, the owner vows revenge on the fox. He trains Copper to ignore all the foxes except Tod.
Meanwhile, Tod and the old Fox make a mess in the forest. However, Copper and the owner, having stumbled upon a lair of foxes, gassed the little foxes inside. Master mercilessly kills one by one the cubs of Tod.
Tod himself always manages to get away from death. But Copper finds Tod and kills him. The dog himself is severely emaciated and also almost gives his soul to God. However, the owner takes care of his dog. For a while, both are almost happy.
Unfortunately, the owner starts drinking and ends up in a nursing home. In desperation, he takes a gun and kills his faithful dog. Copper died at the hands of his own master. Here is such a completely sad ending to the original story about the Fox and the faithful dog.
Cartoon Hunchback
9. Death and suffering in The Hunchback
In the original version: both Esmeralda and Quasimodo are subjected to the most severe torture, then they both die
Hugo's version is undeniably more tragic. The enamored Frollo inflicts a terrible wound on the handsome Phoebus during his meeting with Esmeralda. Quasimodo then throws Frollo off the roof of Notre Dame. Disney toned down the story's ending. In the classical story, the beautiful gypsy was hung up on the gallows.
At the end of the story, the unfortunate hunchback goes to the crypt where the corpses of executed criminals lie. Finding his beloved among the rotting bodies, Quasimodo embraces her corpse. And after some time, people who entered the crypt see two skeletons that are intertwined in a strong embrace.
10 Pocahontas Was Raped And Murdered
In the original version: Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped and killed
The Disney film about the beautiful Indian girl Pocahontas was based on the notes of English travelers. History covers the period early colonization. Actions take place in the colony of Virginia.
When Pocahontas was very young, she was kidnapped by the British for ransom. The girl was raped and her husband was killed. She was then baptized and given the new name Rebecca.
To hide the pregnancy that came after the rape, Pocahontas is married to John Rolf (John Rolf). Together with her new family, the savage departs for England, where familiar things become a curiosity for her.
Two years later, the Rolphs decided to return to Virginia. On the eve of departure, Pocahontos becomes ill, she vomits violently. Suffering in terrible convulsions, the girl dies. Presumably, Pocahontas died of tuberculosis or pneumonia. She was only 22 years old.
However, according to another version, Pocahontas became aware of the plans of the British government to destroy the indigenous Indian tribes. The British intended to take the land from the people of Pacahontas.
Fearing that Pocahontas might reveal political strategies regarding the Indians, the British planned her poisoning. Pocahontas had to die before returning to her homeland and telling what she knew.
Everyone knows the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The story of a girl who fell into a dead sleep after she tasted a sent apple became popular in Europe thanks to Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, who included it in one of the editions of his collection Children's and Family Tales.
Today, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are often criticized for excessive cruelty - it is in their version of Cinderella's sisters that they cut off their thumbs and heels to stuff their feet into the shoe, and then the doves peck out the eyes of the evil sisters.
And I must say that modern mothers are not too different from the noble ladies of the XIX century. Those, too, after the world saw the first collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm (it happened in 1812), criticized the authors for excessive cruelty and the presence of scenes of a sexual nature in the book for children.
However, what kind of life - such fairy tales, because the plots fairy tales Jacob and Wilhelm did not invent from scratch, but wrote them down from the words of the narrators.
If we talk about "Snow White", then it is believed that Ferdinand Siebert, the son of a pastor who taught at the Friedrich Gymnasium in Kassel, told the brothers-collectors of folklore. This happened after 1814, since the story of Snow White did not appear in the first editions of the collection of fairy tales.
WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL Plot OF THE FAIRY TALE?
If we talk about the plot of "Snow White" as presented by the Brothers Grimm, then the first half of this fairy tale does not differ much from the well-known Disney version: the same envious stepmother with a magic mirror, the hunter who refused to kill the girl, and the gnomes who sheltered her in their house .
Curious differences begin in the second half of the story. Firstly, the stepmother in the version of the Brothers Grimm came to Snow White more than once, but visited her three times and all the time with different "gifts": the first time she brought a suffocating lace for her dress, the second - a poisoned comb, and the third - the same poisonous apple.
Snow White woke up not at all from the kiss of the handsome prince. It's just that she was so beautiful in the coffin that the prince immediately ordered her lifeless body to be delivered to his palace. The servants did not carry the coffin very carefully, one of the porters stumbled, a piece of the sent apple flew out of Snow White's throat, and then she woke up.
Well, the stepmother was generally treated harshly. This lady was foolish enough to come to Snow White's wedding out of curiosity, where her stepmother was caught and forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she fell dead. Here is such a good happy ending. But this is all a saying, the real fairy tale, as they say, lies ahead.
WHO WAS SNOW WHITE'S HISTORICAL PROTOTYPE?
Snow White is a story based on real events. Moreover, the main character has two historical prototypes at once. Let's get to know them.
Applicant number one is Countess Margareta von Waldeck, daughter of Count Philip IV, who ruled Waldeck, a city in Hesse. Born in 1533, her father spent her youth in Vianden (Luxembourg), knew Martin Luther personally and actively promoted Lutheranism in Waldeck and Hesse.
The first wife of Philip, who became the mother of Margaret, was Margaret from East Frisia, and after the death of his wife, the count remarried Katharina from the city of Hatzfeld.
The relationship between the daughter from her first marriage and the stepmother categorically did not go well, and the 16-year-old Margaret von Waldeck was sent to Brussels. There she met the Spanish Prince Philip - the future king of Spain from the Hamburg dynasty Philip II.
The young prince boasted an excellent education, and they say he had a fine sense of nature and art. In a word, there is nothing surprising in the fact that passionate love soon arose between him and Margareta, no.
By the way, Margaret's appearance perfectly fits the description of Snow White: also white skin, black hair and a bright blush.
But, as you know, strong feelings in the event that they do not meet political interests should be nipped in the bud.
Most of all, Philip's father, Charles V, who had his own plans for his son, was not happy about the prince's romantic passion. Not so happy that Margareta suddenly died mysteriously at the age of 21, according to rumors, she was poisoned by agents of the Spanish king.
This story received wide publicity, because in the 16th century they loved to weep over the tragic story of unhappy love no less than today.
But in the city of Lohr am Main, which is located in Bavaria, it is believed that the real Snow White was Baroness Maria Sophia Margareta Katarina von und Ertal, who was born on June 25, 1725.
She was the daughter of Philipp Christoph von Ertal, ruler of the local lands, and his wife, Baroness von Bettendorf. After the death of his first wife, Philip remarried Claudia Elisabeth Maria von Wenningen, Countess of Reichstein, and this lady did not love her stepdaughter with all her heart.
And the stepmother from the city of Lor am Main actually had a talking mirror - an acoustic toy that her husband gave her on her wedding day.
The mirror was made in Lohr am Main in 1720, today it is exhibited in the city museum. The gnomes from the tale are supposed to be undersized miners who lived in the village of Bieber, which is located west of the city, and is surrounded by seven mountains.
The local tunnels were very small and narrow, so only small people were hired to work in Bieber. Also, the miners wore clothes with bright hoods, which are very reminiscent of dwarf costumes.
The stepmother could poison Mary with the help of poisonous belladonna - this plant is found everywhere in the vicinity of Laura am Main.
WHY APPLE?
The fairy tale "Snow White" is filled with many symbols. For example, the number 7 - the number of gnomes, according to some researchers, does not just coincide with the number of planets, which in Latin languages gave names to the days of the week: Moon (Monday), Mars (Tuesday), Mercury (Wednesday), Jupiter (Thursday), Venus (Friday), Saturn (Saturday), and the Sun is Sunday.
Also, the number 3 is often mentioned in the fairy tale. Three drops of blood fall on the snow, when Snow White's mother wishes her to have a daughter with fair skin, black hair and scarlet lips, the stepmother also visits Snow White three times and brings her the gifts of Venus: a lace for a dress , comb and apple.
However, with an apple, everything is generally not easy. This fruit in the European tradition is still a fruit. Everyone remembers that Eve took an apple from the hands of the Serpent and what it led to, but this fruit had an equally bad reputation in the ancient tradition.
This refers to the famous “Apple of Discord” with the inscription “Most Beautiful”, which Paris gave to Aphrodite, which offended Hera and Athena, and the very same Trojan War described by Homer in the Iliad.
And yet, Snow White, falling asleep in a dead sleep, is a kind of reflection of the ancient Celtic beliefs that one cannot sleep in an apple orchard. Like, if you fall asleep under an apple tree, you may never wake up again, because there is a great chance that fairies living in a tree trunk will steal your soul.
In Somerset, England, this superstition evolved into a curious legend about the Apple Man, a spirit that lives in the body of the oldest apple tree in the garden. On the night of January 17, Apple Man had to make offerings, pour cider at the roots of the apple tree and lay out slices of bread, sometimes bread was also tied to the branches of a tree.
And in England there was a legend that one peasant had absolutely nothing to eat, but he still decided to give the last piece of bread to the Apple Man, and in return he told the peasant about the treasures hidden in the ground.
So sometimes apple perfumes were also useful, but sleeping under these trees was still considered a life-threatening occupation, so it is not surprising that Snow White did not die, but fell asleep in a dead sleep, having tasted the apple.
Today many folk tales rewritten and improved. And the ones that got through the hands of Disney certainly got a good ending. But, nevertheless, the value of the legend is in its authenticity.
Pied Piper
The most famous variant of the tale of the Pied Piper today, in a nutshell, is this:
The city of Hameln was invaded by hordes of rats. And then a man with a pipe appeared and offered to rid the city of rodents. The people of Hameln agreed to pay a generous reward, and the rat-catcher fulfilled his end of the bargain. When it came to payment - the townspeople, as they say, "threw" their savior. And then the Pied Piper decided to rid the city of children too!
In more modern versions, the Pied Piper lured the children into a cave away from the city, and as soon as the greedy townspeople paid off, he sent everyone home. In the original, the Pied Piper took the children into the river, and they drowned (except for one cripple, who fell behind everyone else).
Little Red Riding Hood
A fairy tale familiar to everyone since childhood ends with the fact that Little Red Riding Hood and grandmother were saved by woodcutters. The original French version (Charles Perrault) was nowhere near as nice. There, instead of a little girl, a well-bred young lady appears, who asks the wolf for directions to her grandmother's house and receives false instructions. The stupid girl follows the advice of the wolf and gets him for lunch. And that's it. No lumberjacks, no grandmother - just a contented, well-fed wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, which he bit to death.
Moral of the story - don't ask strangers for advice.
Mermaid
Urban children's fairy tales are difficult to write. This, of course, is not news since the appearance of this genre, that is, since the time of Andersen (the romantic Hoffmann, we recall, was by no means focused on children). But modern authors have to overcome difficulties that not only the Danish eccentric could not dream of, but also authors who were active only one or two generations ago. When Andersen made up stories about galoshes and an earthen pot or about tin soldier and a porcelain ballerina, he could be quite sure that these objects were as sweet and familiar to the children of his day, as they were familiar to the boy Hans Christian himself.
Disney's film about The Little Mermaid ends with a magnificent wedding of Ariel and Eric, where not only people, but also sea inhabitants have fun. But in the first version, written by Hans Christian Andersen, the prince marries a completely different princess, and the grief-stricken Mermaid is offered a knife, which she must plunge into the heart of the prince in order to be saved. Instead, the poor child jumps into the sea and dies, turning into sea foam.
Then Andersen slightly softened the ending, and the Little Mermaid became no longer sea foam, but a “daughter of the air”, who is waiting for her turn to go to heaven. But it was still a very sad ending.
Snow White
In the most popular version of the Snow White tale, the queen asks the huntsman to kill her hated stepdaughter and bring her heart as proof. But the huntsman took pity on the poor thing and returned to the castle with the heart of a boar.
The story about the friendship of a baby (and then a little boy) Johan and the dog Ajax, who dies in the middle of the book and turns into a star, is written in the simplest language - however, without the slightest lisp. The author is on an equal footing with the reader, and it is clear that the shocks, joys and discoveries of two-year-olds or six-year-olds are no less close to Ulf Stark than the problems of difficult teenagers.
This time around, Disney's changes weren't so drastic. Just a couple of details: in the original, the queen ordered Snow White's liver and lungs to be brought - they were cooked and served for dinner that evening! And further. In the first version, Snow White wakes up from the fact that on the way to the palace she was pushed by the prince's horse - not at all from a magical kiss. Yes - and in the Brothers Grimm's version, the tale ends with the queen being forced to dance in hot shoes until she dies in terrible agony.
sleeping Beauty
Everyone knows that the sleeping beauty is a beautiful princess who pierced her finger with a spindle, fell into a dream and slept for a hundred years, until the prince finally arrived and woke her up with a kiss. They immediately fell in love, got married and lived happily ever after.
The original is not nearly as nice. There, the girl fell into a dream because of the prophecy, and not at all because of the curse. And it was not the kiss of the prince that woke her up at all - the king, seeing the beauty sleeping and helpless, rapes the poor thing. Nine months later, two children were born (the girl is still sleeping). One of the children sucks his mother's finger and pulls out a splinter from the spindle, because of which, as it turned out, she could not wake up. After waking up, the beauty finds out that she was a victim of violence and the mother of two children.
Rumplestiltskin
This tale differs from the rest in that it was modified by the author himself, who decided to make it even more creepy. In the first version, the evil dwarf Rumpelstiltskin weaves golden threads from straw for a young girl so that she can avoid execution. For his help, he demands to give him the future first-born. The girl agrees - but when the time of reckoning comes, she, of course, cannot do this. And then the dwarf promises that he will release her from the obligation if she guesses his name. Having overheard the song in which the dwarf sang his name, the young mother gets rid of the need to pay a terrible debt. A shamed Rumplestiltskin runs away, and that's the end of it.
The second option is much more bloody. Rumplestiltskin stomps his foot in anger so that his right foot sinks deep into the ground. Trying to get out, the dwarf tears himself in half.
Three Bears
This sweet fairy tale features a little golden-haired girl who got lost in the forest and ended up in the house of three bears. The child eats their food, sits on their chairs, and falls asleep on the bear's bed. When the bears return, the girl wakes up and runs out of the window out of fear.
This tale (published for the first time in 1837) has two originals. In the first, the bears find the girl, tear her apart and eat her. In the second, instead of goldilocks, a little old woman appears, who, after the bears wake her up, jumps out the window and breaks either her leg or her neck.
Hansel and Gretel
In the most popular version of this tale, two small children, lost in the forest, stumble upon a gingerbread house in which a terrible cannibal witch lives. The children are forced to do all the housework while the old woman fattens them up to eventually eat them. But the children are smart, throw the witch into the fire, and run away.
In an early version of the tale (called "The Lost Children"), the devil himself appeared instead of the witch. The children outwitted him (and tried to deal with him in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel with the witch), but he managed to escape, built goats for sawing firewood, after which he ordered the children to climb up and lie on them instead of logs. The children pretended not to know how to lie on the goats, and then the devil ordered his wife to demonstrate how it was done. Having seized the moment, the children cut her throat and run away.
girl without hands
In truth, the new version of this tale is not much kinder than the original, but still there are enough differences between them to make it into this article. In the new version, the devil offered the poor miller untold wealth in exchange for what is behind the mill. Thinking that we are talking about an apple tree, the miller happily agrees - and soon finds out that he sold his own daughter to the devil. The devil tries to take the girl away, but he can't - because she's too pure. And then the unclean one threatens to take her father instead of her and demands that the girl let her father cut off her hands. She agrees, and loses her hands.
This is, of course, an unpleasant story, but still it is somewhat more humane than the earlier versions, in which the girl cuts off her own hands in order to become ugly in the eyes of her brother, who tries to rape her. In another version, the father cuts off his own daughter's hands because she refuses to have sex with him.
Cinderella
The modern fairy tale ends with the beautiful hardworking Cinderella getting a no less beautiful prince as her husband, and the evil sisters marrying two noble gentlemen - and everyone is happy.
This story appeared in the first century BC, where the heroine of Strabo (Greek historian and geographer; approx. mixednews) was called Rhodopis (pink-cheeked). The story was very similar to the one we all know well, except for the crystal slippers and the pumpkin carriage.
But there is a much more cruel variation from the Brothers Grimm: their evil sisters cut their own feet to the size of crystal shoes - in the hope of deceiving the prince. But the trick fails - two doves fly to the aid of the prince and peck out the eyes of the scammers. In the end, the sisters end up as blind beggars while Cinderella enjoys luxury and serene happiness in the royal castle.
Translator Natalia Zakalyk
As many people already know, some of the Disney animated musicals that little kids love and adore for the past 80 years actually have very horrific original versions that include rape, cannibalism, torture, and other very unpleasant events. Some people think that Disney improved the original stories, making them more accessible and enjoyable for the general public, while others think that he redid them, or at least messed them up so much that they were unrecognizable.
Here are ten examples of some less famous originals Disney films. Some of them have an original history that many people don't even know, others have an origin that has not been discussed in such detail on the Internet before.
Whatever your personal opinion of these shocking originals and their popular Disney versions, I hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I enjoyed translating it.
10. Pinocchio: corpses and murders
In original: Pinocchio kills the Cricket, the Fairy comes and says "Corpse" and Pinocchio dies
In the very first version of Pinocchio, the doll is punished with death for being a naughty boy. Pinocchio cruelly teases Gippetto and runs away, Gippetto pursues him, but is caught by a policeman who throws the old man in jail, believing that he was mocking the doll. When Pinocchio returns to Gippetto's house, he meets a hundred-year-old cricket there, who tells him that naughty boys turn into donkeys. Pinocchio throws a hammer at him and kills him.
Pinocchio ends up almost burning himself in the fire along with the firewood, after which he bites off the paws of an evil cat and meets a beautiful fairy with blue hair, who tells him that she is dead and is waiting for people to take her body away. Pinocchio then hangs a cat with a mutilated paw and her fox companion from a tree, and they see Pinocchio suffocate and die. End.
The editors were not too happy with this ending, so the author added a second part to the story. Here, a beautiful dead fairy rescues Pinocchio and they start living together, but he starts misbehaving again and eventually turns into a donkey. He is sold to a circus, where he goes reluctantly.
Later, Pinocchio is brought to a musician who wishes to kill him, skin him and use it for a drum. The musician ties a stone around the donkey's neck and lowers it into the ocean to drown it. He drowns, the fish gnaws at his flesh to the bone, and only the wooden frame of the doll remains. Pinocchio swims away, but is immediately swallowed by a giant shark, in whose stomach he finds Gipetto sitting at the table and trying to eat a live fish that looks out of his mouth. After they escape, Pinocchio takes care of Gippetto. Ultimately, as a reward for being a good boy, taking care of his father and working hard, Pinocchio turns into a real boy.
9. Dismemberment in Aladdin
In original: Kassim gets hurt
Who is Kassim, you ask? Kassim is a long time ago lost father Aladdin, which appears in the third Disney film released immediately on cassette "Aladdin and the King of Thieves". Cassim is the leader of the infamous Forty Thieves, but puts aside his villainous deeds for a while in order to attend the wedding of Aladdin and Jasmine. As you can see, here some of the ideas were taken from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a fairy tale from 1001 Nights.
In the original version, Ali Baba learns the secret words that help to enter and exit the secret magical treasury of the forty thieves. Ali Baba tells these words to brother Cassim, who greedily rushes to the treasure and takes as much gold as he can carry. However, due to excessive excitement, he forgets the magic phrases that allow him to leave the cave. The thieves return, find Cassim and kill him. They divide his corpse into four parts and place the severed limbs on the outside of the entrance to their cave, so that this will be a warning to future robbers.
When Ali Baba discovers a creepy warning sign, he collects his brother's body parts and takes them home. He asks the slave, Marjane, to make it look like Kassim died of natural causes. Marjane finds a professional tailor who expertly sews the parts of Kassim's corpse into one. The thieves find the house where Ali Baba lives, but the slave girl tricks them, and as a result, they kill two of their comrades on their own, and she kills the rest by pouring boiling oil on the barrels where they hide. Only their leader survives, and Marjane stabs him with a dagger while dining at Ali Baba's house. Now there is only one faithful slave!
8. Bloodthirsty Cinderella
In original: Cinderella kills her stepmother
By now, most of us knew about the Brothers Grimm's version of Cinderella, where the Prince smears tar on the steps of the palace in the hope that Cinderella will get stuck in it when she tries to escape. However, his plan fails, leaving only her shoe stuck in the resin. Her sisters, who are "beautiful but with black hearts," both tried to trick the prince into marrying them. One sister cuts off her big toe in order to put on a shoe, the other cuts off her heel. Their deceit is exposed when Cinderella's magical birds point out the blood on the prince's stockings. They peck out the sisters' eyes for their cruelty and deceit. While this is an excellent version of Cinderella, it is far from the story that the Disney movie was based on.
Disney's Cinderella was based on a very boring fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697. Perrault's version unfolds much like the Disney version. However, both versions by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm contain elements from Cinderella's Cat, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile. Although Basile's tale is a little trite, it is worth noting that in this version, Cinderella confides to the seemingly good Governess about her stepmother's cruelty. The governess tells Cinderella that in order to fix her problems, she will need to kill her stepmother by hitting the lid of a large wooden chest on her stepmother's throat, which will break her neck.
Cinderella then has to convince her father to marry the governess. Cinderella kills her stepmother and the marriage is successful. However, it turns out that the Governess has been hiding her own seven beautiful daughters, and when she introduces them, Cinderella's father loses interest in his own daughter. They all begin to mistreat Cinderella, mock her and shower her with abuse. She goes to the kitchen to work as a servant (henceforth she gets the name "Cinderella the Cat". She was previously called Zezolla). The rest of the story is pretty much the same as the traditional Cinderella story. In fact, this story has a happy ending in any version. However, it's nice to know that Cinderella wasn't always as innocent as we used to think.
7. Sleeping beauty sleeps among corpses
In original: Sleeping beauty falls asleep among hundreds of rotting corpses stuck among the thorny thickets of heather.
In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Rose of Thorns, a witch curses a little princess, saying that at fifteen she will prick her finger with a spindle and fall dead. Another sorceress weakens the curse so that instead of dying, the princess falls asleep for a hundred years. Of course, at fifteen, the girl, pricking her finger, falls into a dead sleep, which quickly spreads throughout her kingdom, until even the flies on the wall fall into oblivion. A rosehip hedge grows around the castle, and over the years, hundreds of young people from distant lands have been trying to climb through the thorny bushes to get a closer look at the sleeping princess.
However, the bushes are so dense that young people fall into a thorny trap and die a slow, terrible death. Exactly one hundred years later, a prince rides by, and the thorns turn into flowers and open the way for him, because the curse is finally over. The Prince finds Sleeping Beauty and kisses her, awakening her.
The Brothers Grimm drew their inspiration for The Thorny Rose from the fairy tale The Sun, Moon and Thalia, written by Giambattista Basile. In this tale, the king rapes the princess while she is sleeping. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. One of the babies takes out an enchanted shard under her fingernail and she awakens. The queen tries to mercilessly kill the children and feed their father with them, and also wants to burn Thalia alive, but the king manages to solve all the problems in time, the queen burns instead of Thalia, and they all live happily ever after.
6. The little mermaid and her dirty deeds
In original: The little mermaid kills the prince
In the Hans Christian Andersen story that Disney based his films on, the Mermaid's tongue was cut out. She has to live with terrible pains, and her legs will bleed continuously, which is why the prince marries another. The Little Mermaid has a choice, she can kill the prince and turn back into a mermaid, or throw herself into the ocean and die. Not daring to kill the prince, she commits suicide.
Although Andersen's The Little Mermaid is an original, he took inspiration from a fairy tale by Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet called "Ondine". In it, a knight marries a mermaid and she receives a human soul. Ondine's relatives, mischievous and at times quite wicked, begin to complicate this marriage. It doesn't help that Ondine allows her husband's ex-girlfriend Bertida, who is also her half-sister, to live with them in the castle. The knight falls in love with Bertida, and both of them begin to treat Undine badly, which makes her uncle, the strongest merman, very angry.
Ondine commits suicide by throwing herself into a raging river to save her husband and Bertida from her uncle's wrath. She loses her human soul and becomes a mermaid again. The knight believes that she is dead and marries Bertida, but this is considered unlawful if he was previously married to a mermaid. Undine is forced by their laws to return as a mermaid and kill her ex-husband! After he is buried, a small stream appears around his grave, thus, Ondine and the knight remain together forever, even after death.
5. Slave Snow White
In original: Snow White was tortured and made a slave
In the Brothers Grimm's tale of Snow White, the evil queen orders the hunter to bring Snow White's lungs and liver as proof of the princess's death. The hunter returns with the entrails of the pig and the Queen, believing them to be Snow White's liver and lungs, greedily devours the shiny organs.
The Queen attempts to kill Snow White three times: the first time, she tightens her corset so tightly that she passes out. The second time she combs her hair with a poisonous comb, which makes her fall into a dead sleep, the dwarves pull out the comb and she awakens. Finally, the Queen poisons the apple that Snow White eats and no doubt dies. The dwarves place her corpse in a glass coffin, where a passing Prince finds her and decides to take her home with him. When the coffin is moved, a piece of apple falls out of the throat and Snow White wakes up. At the wedding, the queen is forced to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she dies.
The Grimms borrowed the idea for their tale of Snow White from a story called "The Young Slave" written by Giambattista Basile in 1634. In this story, the fairy curses the child and he must die in the seventh year of life. When a girl is seven years old, her mother combs her hair and the comb gets stuck in the girl's skull, apparently killing her. The mother places the girl's body in seven crystal coffins placed one inside the other and locks her in one of the rooms of the castle. The mother eventually dies of grief, and entrusts the key to that room to her brother, telling him never to open the door. The brother's wife takes this key, opens the door, and finds a beautiful young woman inside a glass coffin (the girl continues to grow during her sleep).
The wife thinks that her husband is keeping the girl in a closed room in order to have sex with her, and therefore pulls her by the hair, which displaces the comb and breaks the spell. The woman cuts off the girl's hair and beats her until she bleeds. She then enslaves the girl and beats her daily, making her eyes black and her mouth so bloody, as if she "had eaten raw pigeons". A young girl decides to commit suicide, but as she sharpens the blade, she tells her story to the doll. Her uncle overhears the story and the intrigue is revealed. He divorces his wife, provides treatment for his niece, and then marries her to a wealthy man.
4 Self-immolation of Hercules
In original: Hercules burned himself alive
Zeus, god of the sky, pretends to be a man named Amphitrion. Why? So Zeus was able to have sex with Alcmene, the hot wife of Amphitryon! After Zeus rapes Alcmene, she becomes pregnant. The real Amphitryon has sex with Alcmene on the same night, and also impregnates her and it turns out that she is pregnant with two babies and from different fathers! (This, by the way, is physically quite possible). One of the twins (the son of Zeus) is Hercules (in the original spelling, the name literally meant "Glory of Hera." He was named that way mostly just to annoy Hera).
When Hercules grows up, he will become a great warrior and marry the beautiful princess Megara. They will have two beautiful children, whom Hercules will then kill when Hera sends temporary insanity into him. Some mythologists say that Hercules also killed Megara, others claim that he gave her Iolaus, who was not only his nephew, but also his young lover! (Hercules was a symbol of sexual prowess who had love affairs with several men and women.)
Later, when the centaur Nessus tries to rape Hercules' fourth wife Dejanira, he shoots him with poisoned arrows with Hydra's blood. As he dies, Nessus tells Dejanira that his spilled blood and semen can be collected and used as a love potion. After a while, when Dejanira begins to suspect Hercules of infidelity, she puts the potion on the sacrificial tunic that her husband puts on.
The poison of the Hydra (which got into the blood of Nessus from the poisoned arrow that pierced him) begins to bake the skin of Hercules and he tears off his shirt, but his skin is torn off with it, exposing the bones. Terrified, Dejanira hangs herself. To end his excruciating agony, Heracles builds a funeral pyre and his friend Philoctetes lights the fire. Hercules burns himself alive, but instead of dying, after his human flesh burns, an immortal part of his body appears and Hercules returns to Olympus as an immortal, reconciles with Hera and, presumably, lives happily ever after.
3. The Fox and the Death of the Hound
In original: The fox and the hunting dog die a terrible death
Copper hates Chief, a young, fast hunting dog who takes Copper's place in the pack. The Chief saves their Master from a bear during a hunt, Copper hates and is jealous of him as he grows and becomes stronger. The Master showers Chief with praise, but completely ignores Copper, who cowered in fear during the bear's attack. Tod is a fox who loves to tease chained dogs and make them go berserk. One day, Chief breaks his chain and runs after Tod. He leads the dog to the railroad track, Chief gets hit by a train and dies. The master vows revenge and trains Copper to ignore everyone else except the fox Toda.
Tod meets an old fox and they make a mess together, but Master and Copper find the lair and gas the fox baby. The Fox is then kicked into a trap and killed. Then Tod meets another fox, and they have more children, but the Master again kills his family. One winter there is an outbreak of rabies among foxes that feed on carrion. One of the infected animals attacks a group of human children and the Master releases poison to try and kill as many foxes as possible. A human child eats poison and dies.
In the aftermath, Tod escapes many more attempts on his life, but one day Copper attacks him so hard that he collapses dead from exhaustion. Copper himself almost did not die, but the Master nurses him, and he becomes healthy again. For a while, both of them enjoy renewed popularity, but the Boss starts drinking again and ends up in a nursing home. The owner takes a gun and kills Copper, although he himself cries from what he did. End. Phew...
2. Horror and death in The Hunchback
In original: Quasimodo is tortured, Esmeralda is tortured and then everyone dies
Frollo doesn't try to get rid of the disfigured child by throwing him down a well, as shown in the Disney movie. In Victor Hugo's secret original, Frollo actually saves a child from being burned alive, which four women who thought he was a demon wanted to do. Frollo adopts the child and names him Quasimodo. As a result, Frollo goes crazy with a terrible desire to take possession of a beautiful fifteen-year-old gypsy named Esmeralda, and asks Quasimodo to kidnap her.
Quasimodo is caught in the act and arrested by the handsome soldier Phoebus, with whom Esmeralda falls in love. Quasimodo is publicly tortured and left tied up in a pillory. Phoebus (who is already married but really enjoys going out) arranges a "private meeting" between him and Esmeralda, but Frollo pays Phoebus to let him hide in the shadows and watch them. Esmeralda, seized with lust, renounces her vow of chastity in favor of Phoebus, who immediately gets down to business. Seized with jealousy, Frollo emerges from the shadows, stabs Phoebus in the back, and flees into the night. Esmeralda is accused of attempted murder, tortured in an underground dungeon for perjury, and sentenced to be hanged.
Quasimodo saves her as she goes to the gallows and hides her in Notre Dame, where Frollo tries to rape her. Here Quasimodo intervenes again, Frollo abandons Esmeralda and a brief and bloody battle takes place between them, during which Frollo tells her that he will save her if she "give him love." She refuses and he hands her over to the military. Frollo watches as Esmeralda's execution takes place, during which she laughs hysterically and then writhes in a noose. Quasimodo then throws Frollo off the roof of Notre Dame.
After that, Quasimodo goes to the crypt, where the corpses of executed criminals are always left to rot, and embraces the decaying corpse of Esmeralda. In the end, they find two of their skeletons intertwined in an eternal embrace.
1 Pocahontas Was Raped And Murdered
In original: Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped and killed
Two Disney films about beautiful, half-naked Indian babes, based on carefully manipulated and falsified English records of early history colony of Virginia. Pocahontas was only about ten years old when Captain Smith first made contact with the Powhatan tribe. It is true that he was captured by the tribe, but in his original account, Smith reveals that he was treated very kindly. And many years later, when the name Pocahontas became known in England, it was not like she saved him from execution. He came up with it all himself.
When Pocahontas was seventeen years old, she was captured by the British for ransom. Her husband, Kokoum, was killed, and Pocahontas was raped several times and naturally became pregnant. She was forcibly converted to Christianity, baptized as Rebecca, and quickly married an English tobacco farmer named John Rolfe to make the pregnancy legal. In 1615, the Rolf family traveled to England, where Pocahontas sharply criticized the corset and appeared before the public as "a symbol of the domesticated savages of Virginia."
After spending two years in England, the Rolphs decide to return home to Virginia when Pocahontas suddenly began vomiting violently after dinner and convulsing. Before she had even sailed down the River Thames, Pocahontas died, horribly and painfully. English historical records are "unsure of the cause of her death". It is believed that she may have contracted pneumonia, tuberculosis, or even smallpox. However, in his book True story Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, Lynwood Kastalow and Angela L. Daniel argue that during her stay in England, Pocahontas learned of the intentions of the British government to destroy the indigenous tribes and forcibly take their lands. Fearing that Pocahontas might reveal political strategies, her assassination was quickly planned and she was poisoned before she could get home and report what she had learned. Pocahontas was only twenty-two years old when she died.
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Surely everyone knows the story snow whites from stories Brothers Grimm Or a Walt Disney cartoon. The evil stepmother envied the beauty of the young stepdaughter and poisoned her with a poisonous apple. But the kiss of true love broke the spell, and then everyone lived happily ever after. But, as you know, in every fairy tale there is some truth. Some historians claim they can tell the story of the real Snow White.
In 1994 the German historian Eckhard Sander ( Eckhard Sander) published his research titled Snow White: Myth or Reality? (Schneewittchen: Märchen oder Wahrheit?), in which he claimed to have found an account in the Brothers Grimm archives that shed light on the prototype of the real Snow White.
We are talking about the young Countess Margarethe von Waldeck ( Margaretha von Waldeck), who lived in the 15th century in Bad Wildungen. The girl really had a stepmother (but not evil), and rumors about her beauty went far beyond the county.
At the age of 16, the girl moved to Brussels, where a few years later she fell in love with the future King of Spain, Philip II. The young man reciprocated her. But the relatives of the future monarch were not satisfied with such a party, and soon the countess died.
Zander believes she was poisoned, making the situation look like a mysterious illness. This is evidenced by the will, which the countess wrote shortly before her death. The handwriting shows that Margaret had a tremor, which is typical for poisoned people.
The image of the seven dwarfs was also strongly associated with the von Waldeck family. Margaret's father owned several copper mines where the children worked. Due to malnutrition and harsh working conditions, many of them died, but those who survived looked like crooked dwarfs with deformed limbs.
With regard to the poison apple, Sander also found parallels to this event reflected in the history of the city of Bad Wildungen. It is about an old man who gave poisoned apples to children who he believed were stealing fruit from his garden.
The history of the beautiful countess was passed from mouth to mouth for several centuries, acquiring all sorts of details. And in 1812, the Brothers Grimm included the story of Snow White in their collection of fairy tales based on German folk tales.
Modern artists very often transfer fairy tales to modern realities and try to imagine what follows the phrase "they lived happily ever after." Dina Goldstein published a very interesting project called
