8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings

That’s great. Original fairy tales are pretty gruesome, some Disney movies are scary, too…in Tarzan, Clifton ends up hanging himself and you can see it.

My favorite is that last one…what was the author’s point?

This was an awesome post. :D

How about Repunzel? In the version I’m familiar with (Grimms’ version) the mother is preggers after many years of being barren and has food cravings. Husband promises to fork over his newborn to save his wife’s life because she is “pining away”. Repunzel is locked in the tower and has the which climb up her hair every day. The first man she meets impregnates her. When the witch discovers this she chops off Repunzel’s hair and moved her to a desert. The prince jumps out the window to escape the witch and falls on the thorns and is blinded. Repunzel, in her far away desert, gives birth to her twins. The prince (now a blind begger) wanders many years and one day hears her singing. She recognises him and he is miraculously cured by her crying into his eyes. And surprise, he’s a daddy. We never find out what happens to the witch.

Look up Twelve Brothers. King has Twelve sons and his wife is pregnant again so he says that if it’s a daughter he will kill his sons. One of the sons discovers twelve coffins for him and his brothers. They flee to the forest where they live in an enchanted cottage for sixteen years and swear to kill any girl they meet. Then the king’s daughter learns of her brothers and goes searching for them. She is reunited with her youngest brother who hides her under a tub and makes his brothers swear not to kill the next girl they see for good news, he shows her to them and they are all happy. Then one day the girl goes out and picks twelve flowers from the garden and the cottage disappears and her brothers turn into ravens. A witch comes to her and tells her that her brothers will only come back if she remains silent for six years. Shortly after she is told that a king passes by and decides to marry her. They live happily but she refuses to speak and the King’s mother convinces him that she is evil because she does not speak so he burns the girl at the stake. But just before she is lit 12 ravens appear and turn back into her brothers who save her. The king, the girl and the brothers all live happily ever after. The Mother-in-Law is put in a barrel filled with poisonous snakes and boiling oil (I still don’t get how this works).

Now that’s a messed up Grimm tale.

There´s also the story of St. Nicolas where three children stumble upon the house of an evil butcher who chops them all into bits and puts them in a brine bucket. Several years later, St. Nicolas happens to stop in the home of the butcher and sees the dead chopped up children in the bucket of salt and raises them from the dead. As they come back to life, they talk about how wonderfully they slept and one even says he saw heaven. Creepy.

Nice Cracked.com rip-off…

sounds likes somethin scientolgy would write

My personal favorite fairy tale is Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Red Shoes.” A little orphan girl (in most versions I’ve read, named Karen), who was adopted by a rich old woman, buys some red shoes to wear to Communion. Since the woman is blind, she can’t tell, but all the neighbors kindly inform her about it, and even though she bans Karen from wearing them to church again, she does anyway. Next Sunday, there’s a soldier at the church who curses Karen’s red shoes so they stick to her feet always.
My memory is a bit dusty at this point, but I do remember Karen having to dance and dance in those red shoes for days. She dances up through a graveyard where she sees St. Michael, who says it’s her punishment for vanity. She finally has to beg an executioner to chop off her feet so she can stop dancing.

Penta of the Chopped-off Hands

Moral is very simple – about the malicious wife of the fisherman. It’s to warn that such actions always come out and can’t be hidden; that one always falls for their own foul play.

I just re-read some of the fairy tales I read when I was little and when I reread some of them I was a bit shocked, I read the little matchstickgirl and the ones dian + victiore is talking about and was a bit disturbed (that was when I started researching the originals). A lot of the stories include wierd death sentences, people are killed for no reason and a lot of the men are VERY arrogant (these stories are my mums from before the disney versions so still include quite a bit of the original stuff). In the magic tinder box (anderson) the guy gets loads of gold from this woman and then chops off her head because she won’t tell him why she wants a tinder box he got for her. After he kills the woman he takes the tinder box and spends all of his money VERY quickley untill he has none. If you want to know the rest of it search it on google because I’m not telling it right but the guy in the story isn’t really that deserving, is he? Also if your wanting reworkings of fairytales read “the book of lost things” by john connoly it is VERY disturbing I don’t actually know why it is a teenagers book. Also when I was younger I read some pretty disturbing fairytales from “tales from tartary” which is a jakanory audiobook, the “penta” one is in there. Also there is this one about an old miser who eats his own boots and a man who gives the royal court horns because the king locked up his brothers.

Wow. This is exaclty what my cousin should read.
I dislike fairy tales becuase they’ve been changed WAY to much from original stories.
I really like this post =) ty .!

Okay, ignore my last comment. I was being stupid. ‘XD I apologize.

But yeah, for some reason the crueler stories are more appealing. Not sure why that is… maybe the nicer stories are more childish and lame. They don’t really teach lessons like “don’t wander off into the woods alone…”

I think I just read all the comments to see what stories people can dig up more than the actual article.

I want a rich old woman frm uk to marry me

ok so ive read all the comments thank you so very much all of you
this is just wat i need
im wrting a book about a princess who runs away from home
its a comedy though
but i add horror muder romance drama and every thing to it
i take fairy tales and put them in one book all together
currently ive got
-little red riding hood
-the troll under the bridge
-robin hood
-3 pigs
-little mermaid [i think idk i forgot ive wrote 52 pages]
and im addin more
i wrote this when i was 10 now im 12 and continuing it
im looking for a scary fairy tale for the book so thank you guys so much for posting this!

where would one find the original stories from this artice?

I am doing an art piece on the “dark side of fairytales”…

alot of orriginal fairy tales are grusome, aparently in the orriginal rumplestiltskin (excuse spelling) he ends up keeping the baby, and i’ve heard a version of repunsel where she ends up pregnant with twins and the prince gets his eyes cut out, i’ve also read one called the goose girl, where a princess gets threatened by her maid to switch places, so the maid goes to the castle and is going to marry the princesses groom (arranged marriage to a prince) while the princess is stuck with the geese, then her horse (who is a talking horse and saw everything) gets his head chopped off by order of the princess (maid) but the real princess pays the guy who killed the horse to pin the head up in a tunnell that she takes the geese through every day and whenever she passes it she talks to it, and it replies!!! this chopped off head… you can read the rest of the storey yourself. also I know a bit about that storey with the chopped off hands, though in the one I read it was the devil who ordered her hands chopped off because a farmer (her father) made a deal with the devil, the devil would give him and his family great riches, if he (the devil) could have what is behind the farmers houce, the onlything the farmer thought was behind his houce was an apple tree so he agrees, then instantly his clothes change and bla bla bla, the devil comes to collect the girl once but she is in a white chalk circle whearing white clothes and is completley clean, so the davil can’t take her and orders the farmer to make sure she dosn’t wash for a week, when the devil returned a week later the farmers daughter was filthy but the tears running down into her hands cleaned them and made them white and again the devil could not take her, so he orders the farmer to chop off her handes, and he does and a week later the devil comes again, but the tears this time clean her stumps,(previously hands) and he is reppeled again and can’t come back again cus they he can’t come more then 3 times (why I don’t know) then she asks her father to tye her hands together and she walks away a king sees her they get married bla bla bla, same as your storey, only when they send word of the baby the devil is the one to change the notes, and when the one from the king is changed it says to cut out both the baby and the girls eyes an toungs (snow white moment) the queen instead cuts out a dear and her babys bla bla bla (oh and the girl has a pair of silver hands that the king had made for her) so the girl and her baby travle into the forest and she is looked after by the forest people, the king comes back and the queen (his mum) showes him the eyes and toungs and he is horrified, his mum realises about the switch and tells him that his wife and child are in the forrest so he goes into the forest and fasts (no food!! no water!!! why??? I have no idea) then he finaly collapses at the door step of this houce and when he wakes up a woman who looks like his wife is cleaning his face, a little boy walks in and asks who he is, “thats your father” the woman says (or something like that) and the king says that that dosn’t make sence for the woman in the room has hands then she takes out two silver hands off a shelf, the silver hands of his wife “but how did you get hands??”the king asks and she says that because she had taken so much suffering and worked so hard throught her life that she had been granted with new hands then the little boy interups and says “but my father is dead” and the woman who is acting odly hostile explains “no. he just wanted US dead” then the king explains how the letters where switched and they all ride back to the castle and live happily ever after :p hope that helps a little with the moral to the storey, hard work and hardships will eventualy get you a happily ever after oh and don’t make deals with the davil and what ever else you get from that storey!!!