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How twisted is Fairy Tales are in the past.
10 years ago
So To follow up with this Month them I would like to Start a discussion on how messed up and scary the original Fairy Tales we grown to love.
This morning I had read up on another fairy tale that threw me for a loop, Sleeping Beauty! "Sleeping Beauty": In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Beauty story), a king happens to walk by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. When no one answers, he climbs up a ladder through a window. He finds the princess, and calls to her, but as she is unconscious, she does not wake up. Well, dear reader, he carries her to the bed and rapes her. Then he just leaves. She awakens after she gives birth because one of her twins sucks the flax (from the spindle) out of her finger. The king comes back, and despite him having raped her, they end up falling in love? However, another big problem: the king is still married to someone else. His wife finds out and not only tries to have the twins killed, cooked, and fed to the king, but also tries to burn the princess at the stake. Luckily, she is unsuccessful. The king and the princess get married and live happily ever after (despite the fact that he raped her). Perrault's adaptation of Basile's updated adaptation of the story (a much tamer version) is probably what was used for the Disney adaptation, as they are much more similar. This paragraph is from the article found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/.....n_4239730.html .
What other Fairy Tale you was shock to learn had a much sinister side. Being an adult how does it make you feel and would you tell any these tales to your children in their water down form to not give them nightmares or their cautionary versions to make them understand the evils in the world. As a parent their is some things I would not of course tell them , but some of it sounds much better.
This morning I had read up on another fairy tale that threw me for a loop, Sleeping Beauty! "Sleeping Beauty": In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Beauty story), a king happens to walk by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. When no one answers, he climbs up a ladder through a window. He finds the princess, and calls to her, but as she is unconscious, she does not wake up. Well, dear reader, he carries her to the bed and rapes her. Then he just leaves. She awakens after she gives birth because one of her twins sucks the flax (from the spindle) out of her finger. The king comes back, and despite him having raped her, they end up falling in love? However, another big problem: the king is still married to someone else. His wife finds out and not only tries to have the twins killed, cooked, and fed to the king, but also tries to burn the princess at the stake. Luckily, she is unsuccessful. The king and the princess get married and live happily ever after (despite the fact that he raped her). Perrault's adaptation of Basile's updated adaptation of the story (a much tamer version) is probably what was used for the Disney adaptation, as they are much more similar. This paragraph is from the article found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/.....n_4239730.html .
What other Fairy Tale you was shock to learn had a much sinister side. Being an adult how does it make you feel and would you tell any these tales to your children in their water down form to not give them nightmares or their cautionary versions to make them understand the evils in the world. As a parent their is some things I would not of course tell them , but some of it sounds much better.
There is even some suggestion that the slipper in the Cinderella story is a symbol for the vagina. The belief being that a small, tight vagina is a virtuous one, and that the step sisters were promiscuous and thus could not fit the symbolic slipper.
On a different note, I always liked the tale of Egle Queen of the Serpents. The prince of serpents tricks her into marrying him, and at first her family tricks the hoard of serpents into taking a substitution three times. They finally capture Egle and she is taken to marry the Serpent Prince. When she tries to visit her family again (with her four children) the family decides to beat the children to get them to tell the secret of how to call their father up so that they could kill him. Different versions of course have differing plots. In most the serpent prince is a little more romantic than in others. Of course, it's one of those tales where no one is a good person, the Prince is a trickster, Egle's kind of a dope, and her brothers are murderers.
The thing about how they are depicted though with Cinderella glass slipper being small and tight as such will be passed on to tonight conversation with my bf and friends. Thanks you your comment
i've also heard a few of the grim tales that were really.. ahm, grim XD haha
i also recall a version of red-riding hood where she eats her grandmother with the wolf?
it's been a while since i've heard it though, so i'm not sure if i'm remembering it right XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little.....ed_Riding_Hood
If you read in the Earliest versions part it does say that along where the same theme of the story appears in other stories.
It so weird how much when we was children how much theses beloved stories was really sinister tales from the past.
it's just rich really. i feel like people are losing out on so much because of all that's been cut out and watered down from these wonderful stories