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The older versions of popular fairy tales often get into some surprisingly mature themes: murder, mutilation, revenge. Learn the gory details in this video. 10 Fairy Tales That Were Way Darker Than You Realized as a Kid http://people.howstuffworks.com/10-dark-fairy-tales.htm Subscribe http://bit.ly/1AWgeM7 Twitter https://twitter.com/HowStuffWorks Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HowStuffWorks Google+ https://plus.google.com/+howstuffworks Website http://www.howstuffworks.com Watch More https://www.youtube.com/HowStuffWorks Image attributions: Brothers Grimm book cover https://germanics.washington.edu/news/2012/07/19/prof-emer-hellmut-ammerlahn-200-years-grimms-fairy-tales Cinderella's bloody shoe https://www.pinterest.com/pin/458874649504469357/ Snow White & the Seven Dwarves http://creofire.com/the-grimm-side-of-snow-white/ Pinocchio kills the cricket http://www.spiderwebart.com/productsd.asp?snob=104029 Rapunzel http://www.lornafreytag.com/illustration/#/rapunzel/ Rapunzel's hair being cut http://imgkid.com/rapunzel-hair-braid-cut.shtml Rapunzel's prince falls https://www.etsy.com/listing/105632106/rapunzel-aceo The Little Mermaid http://pixgood.com/original-little-mermaid-hans-christian-andersen.html Transcript: Fairy Tales: They’re sweet, magical stories for children, right? But in the early versions recorded by writers like the Brothers Grimm, they’re more like movies in the Saw franchise. Cinderella. You probably remember how after Cinderella’s enchanted night with Prince Charming, she leaves behind a glass slipper, which the prince later uses to identify his mystery woman by shoe size. In the version of the story recorded in Grimm’s 1812 volume, Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters try to trick the prince by slicing off parts of their own feet to fit the slipper. They almost get away with it, until some helpful pigeons point out ... all the blood. Later, at Cinderella’s wedding, the pigeons peck the stepsisters’ eyeballs out. Snow White. Cinderella isn’t the only fairy tale to feature brutal step-family revenge at the heroine’s wedding. In the Grimm version of Snow White, partygoers at Snow White’s wedding force her Evil Stepmother to put on a pair of searing-hot iron shoes and dance around in them until she collapses and dies. Pinocchio. In the 1940 Disney film, the wooden prodigal son Pinocchio explores some shallow vices, like fibbing, smoking cigars and playing pool. But in the 1883 version of the story by Carlo Collodi, the world’s most lovable wooden puppet really hits bottom. Just one example: Pinocchio kills his magical cricket friend with a hammer. Rapunzel. You know the basics: Beautiful young lady, imprisoned in a tower by a witch, freakishly long hair, dashing prince climbs the hair, et cetera. But in the Grimm telling, Rapunzel and the prince run into some really bad luck. After the prince visits Rapunzel – and apparently gets her pregnant – the witch lops off Rapunzel’s hair, banishes her to a desert, ambushes the prince in the tower and makes him take a dive off the top. And the prince, being unaware of the fact that he’s in a Grimm fairytale, fails to take the key precaution of protecting his eyeballs. So, he lands among some thorns that gouge his eyes out and blind him. The Little Mermaid. If you go with the 1827 version of the story by Hans Christian Andersen, nobody in their right mind would want to be “part of your world.” In this version, the sea witch steals the little mermaid’s voice by slicing out her tongue and putting it in a seashell. At the end of the story, the prince abandons the former mermaid and marries another woman, and our heroine is given the option of stabbing the prince in the heart with a knife and bathing her feet in his blood to turn herself back into a mermaid. What’s your favorite grisly fairy tale? Let us know in the comments, and to learn about more blood-curdling children’s folklore, read 10 Fairy Tales That Were Way Darker Than You Realized as a Kid at HowStuffWorks. And subscribe, you creep!
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well..that's my childhood ruined.. Interesting though, I find history fascinating!
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Another cinderella version is that she went home but a beast attacked her in the swamp and all that was left was the shoe and the man tried to find her.
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Snap trap breast man forth technological versus
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Wasn't Snow White actually 7 years old in the Grimm's version?
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I was really surprised about 'The Little Mermaid'
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kindness is not given it's earned
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My mother, grandmothers all read the original versions (English translations notwithstanding). At the public library in my hometown, they had story time every Saturday morning and they read these to us as well. I noticed in the 1970's, many fairy tales got sanitized.
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When you grow Up with this, (i'm German) its normal and familiar.
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okay, so cinderella has tons of stories behind her, thats only one of the many old tails, and no the eyes of the prince rapunzle SECRETLY married IN the tower, were not gouged out, because her wandered the wasteland and found her in the desert after she bore him twins, she cried into his eyes and he could see again, also the "witch" was just an old woman who gained Rapunzle at her birth as payment for her father's thievery.
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well yeah, haven't you seen into the woods?
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The original Rapunzel book was in my elementary schools library lol. I recognized one of the paintings
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you forgot that Rapunzel was pregnant with twins and gave birth in the desert... somehow the Prince found her anyway and she wept on his eyes and he could see again.
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ur vid falls flat but the content is good keep it up and be more lively in ur vid
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why tf you move yo hands like that
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Wow, this is the most tired video I've ever watched....u literally slowed time down, with ur terrible oak bedtime music nd unadmirable strong sloth vibes!
.....kids like vibrant characters, not brick personalitied adult nerds that look like big babies from afar! -
I sing of mercies that endure,
Forever builded firm and sure,
Of faithfulness that never dies,
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the bible is a good fairytale
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This is how you tell these stories in Germany. That's normal.
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Rupenzel my "aunt " told me that story when I was 4 years old !! That time i thought He was a Nobel man saving the Princess from the Evil witch !!! and Now I Realized he was heading only for Sex & pleasure !! Im Glad the witch catch him in a crime scene .
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actually known most of these way before 😂
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