10 Horrifying Original Endings of Fairy Tales

Posted by Queuebot in Everything Else on August 13, 2009 at 2:23 am

We all grew up with the beloved Disney versions of fairy tales and stories, which have wonderful "all’s well that ends well" happy endings.  What you may not know is that Disney left out a few horrifying details from the original version in order to keep its customers happy.

Here’s a post about 10 original fairy tales in their full and gruesome glories. Take, for example, Snow White:

In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar.

Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night!

Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination.

Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!

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Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic, Music, Video Clips on March 11, 2009 at 5:47 pm

In 2007, we saw the Daft Hands: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger video clip swept through the InterWeb. Fast forward two years later and we get this little beaut: Dwarfed Punk, Daft Punk’s epic song set to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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The Fairest Domino of Them All

Posted by Stacy in Everything Else, Video Clips on December 29, 2008 at 11:10 am

Alex posted the new world record for domino toppling not too long ago. I don’t think this one breaks any records, but it is quite original – it tells the story of Snow White in domino form.

 
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