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Originally Posted by Jonnii

Found my uni project notes so thought some might find these interesting. Some dark origins of Fairytales:

Sleeping Beauty: King finds her asleep, rapes her and she has a child (still asleep) who sucks the thorn out of her finger that's keeping her asleep. Then, King kills his wife to be with SB.

The Little Mermaid: "Ariel" is in agony once she gets her legs as punishment for leaving her life "under the sea" and if her Prince married someone else she'd die and turn into sea foam. So her sister's make a deal with "Ursula" by trading their hair for a dagger. "Ariel" must kill him and have his blood drip on her feet to return to being a mermaid...

Cinderella: One of the "ugly sisters" cuts off her toes so that the glass [gold] slipper fits whilst the other cuts off her heel. Doves then peck their eyes out at Cinders' wedding.

Snow White: Similar to "SW & the Huntsman", the Wicked Queen orders the HM to take her into the woods and kill her but he must bring back her organs for her to eat. Later at SW's wedding to the Prince, Queen, ordered to, dances herself to death wearing red-hot iron shoes...

Mulan: Commits suicide.

The Fox & the Hound: The Fox is the villain of the story and leads a dog to it's death (hit by a train). Dog's owner gets another (Hound) and trains it to hunt the Fox, Fox dies.

Little Red Riding Hood: Eats her Grandmother's body and drinks her blood (not knowing, tricked by Wolf).

Yeah that was the book I had on the little Mermaid when I was a kid