8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings

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[...] posted this article up at Lavish, I can’t tell you how amused I was. The article is called 8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings. Seriously? Must read it. Sleeping Beauty having twins and marrying her rapist.. Cinderella killing [...]

You forgot the little matchstick girl.

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There’s a worse alternative to The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter, the Grimms brothers’ Allerleirauh. Similar premise of the story: the queen dies, but beforehand she made the king swear to never marry again unless he could find a woman whose beauty was equal to hers – which was no easy task. After the queen’s death, the king suddenly realises their daughter is just as beautiful as her mother. He expresses his desire to marry his own daughter to his advisors, who all invariably tell him that such a desire is wicked and should not be entertained.

The daughter tries to dodge this by imposing upon the king 3 impossible tasks: a furcoat made from the pelt of every animal in the forest, a dress golden like the sun, and a dress silvery like the moon. The king fulfills all three and demands for her to marry him. She then gathers the 3 presents that her betrothed gave to her: a gold ring, a gold spinning wheel and a little golden hook. Then she blackens her face and hands with soot, puts on her furcoat in which she also hides her dresses, and runs to the forest, where she finds a nook within a hollowed tree and falls asleep there.

The next day the king goes on a hunting trip with his men. A short while later he finds his dogs barking up a tree, in which he finds a strange black girl covered with unusually colourful pelt. The king decides to take the animal home and sets it to work in the kitchen, where every night she toils and receives a boot up the arse from the king, just for the hell of it.

The king then decides to put on a 3 day dance in which he will attempt to find a new wife. The daughter washes herself clean off the soot and slips into the golden dress and then out of the kitchen, straight onto the courtyard where she spends the entire evening dancing with the king. The king does not recognise her, but is completely enchanted. Shortly before the dance ends, she tears away back into the castle, blackens her hands and face and hides her golden dress within her furcoat again. The kitchenmaid who works with her spoons a bowl of soup for the king upon his return, and the daughter discreetly drops the golden hook into the hot liquid.

Predictably, the king finds the golden trinket and summons the kitchenmaid, who advises him that the black girl must have been the culprit. The daughter denies everything and skulks back into the kitchen. The next night, the same thing was repeated, only she was wearing the silvery dress and drops the spinning wheel into the soup. The third and final night of the dance, she puts on the golden dress again but tears back into the kitchen too late, so she couldn’t blacken herself properly and a lock of her long golden curls slipped away from her furcoat as she’s summoned upstairs to the king – this time after deliberately dropping her golden ring into the king’s meal.

This time the king can see a lock of blonde hair weaved between the pelt and a shimmering of the golden dress underneath. So the king tears the coat open, wipes the girl’s face with his hand and finds his now slightly manky incestuous wet dream. Then he slips the ring onto the girl’s finger, declares her as his new wife, and they live happily ever after. For their sake, I hope whatever children they end up having will not outlive the parents.

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@David-

This was MUCH better than the Cracked.com one. It was a bit more in depth and even included the lesser known tales.

This is probably one of the best in-depth pages I’ve found detailing original fairy tales. I really enjoyed reading! =]

Also, an addition to Sleeping Beauty:
Sleeping beauty wakes up after one of her children sucks her finger, removing the flax splinter that caused her to fall asleep.
Additionally, in one version, the wife of the prince who awakens sleeping beauty asks her cook to slash the throats of the children. They are to be made into a meal to feed to the prince. As the prince finishes his meal, the wife happily tells him, “You are eating what is your own!”

Alternate ending: The cook devises a plan to save the children, because he cannot bring himself to kill them. The wife founds out and attempts to kill sleeping beauty. The prince finds out, and saves the day, as the wife kills herself by jumping into the pot she was going to use kill sleeping beauty and the children.

I was surprised to see that Little Red Riding Hood was not mentioned here, because it fits perfectly.
In one older version, the wolf kills the grandmother and feeds her to little red riding hood (more cannibalism!). Then, the wolf convinces Little Red to strip down and attempts to rape her.
She catches on, and the two variations involve the ending: whether Little Red escapes or is instead eaten.

In the original version of Cinderella, the stepmother demands her daughters to chop off their toes and heels in order to fit into cinderellas tiny slipper…And they do! Unfortunatly, the blood gushing out of the slipper gives them away, and it was all for nothing.
Is’nt that nice? :)
And to think that young children read these things hundreds of years ago!

Wow… Creepy..

Here’s one. “Death of the Seven Dwarfs”, a legend from Switzerland

On one of the high plains between Brugg and Waldshut, near the Black Forest, seven dwarfs lived together in a small house. Late one evening an attractive young peasant girl, who was lost and hungry, approached them and requested shelter for the night. The dwarfs had only seven beds, and they fell to arguing with one another, for each one wanted to give up his bed for the girl. Finally the oldest one took the girl into his bed.

Before they could fall asleep a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be let inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that there was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accused the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men. Threatening to make a quick end to such evil business, she went away in a rage.

That same night she returned with two men, whom she had brought up from the bank of the Rhine. They immediately broke into the house and killed the seven dwarfs. They buried the bodies outside in the garden and burned the house to the ground. No one knows what became of the girl.

It’s not nice to steal articles from other sites. >:[ And adding things to it doesn’t make it “better” and have “more detail.” It’s stolen either way, all the stories and descriptions are the same, they just added a little more to the “other lesser known” stories.

I love wicked Grimm stories like these, but the whole stolen thing throws my opinion of this article off. :(

thats fuckin retarded , stupid story line

In Rumpelstiltskin he used to rape the chick every time he saw her…..I mean like gruesome rape…..they even made the movie….which, unbelievably, is as horrific (or even more) than the book