The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales

In one of the original versions of Snow White, she coughs up the apple and wakes up.

@Hermit: you know I think that is actually very possible !

AHAHAH AWESOME !!! I used to listen to and read the grimms brother version when I was little so when I saw the film for the first time I wondered where the hell all the mutilation was

I'm sure most people have heard of the other version of cinderella... I heard it when I was three. Told by my grandma. My first thought was, "Man, that musta been painful."

Aw man.
My childhood emories will never be the same again!

So Rumplestiltskin dived up her vagina, eh?

I think you missed out on the obvious masturbation angle..

A stilt with a rumpled skin? Oh ho hooo... moral of the story is clearly that girls shouldn't use dildos!

Man, we had the teacher read us the Horrifying Version of Cinderella in fifth grade. My thoughts were an odd combination of "Man, this is gross" and "Man, this is AWESOME!"

The nuns at my school told us that Little Red Riding home was actually a cautionary tale for young girls. They said that it is really about puberty and menstruating ("little red") and the "wolves" (aka boys) who are suddenly on the hunt. My childhood is looking more unfortunate by the minute.

It's not "comatose sex", it's rape. Rape is not sex.

@ Zoey: Grimms with an apostraphe indicates the possessive sense, however as it's already a pluralisation, the apostraphe should be after the S, e.g Grimms', not Grimm's or Grimms's. The latter would be the contraction. Any typos or errors in this sanctimonious bit of preaching shall be explained away by the brilliance of Talisker malt whisky. I advise everyone to develope a dependance to it. For the price of one small problem, you virtually eradicate life's big problems. Good trade off. I wonder how long it'll be before anyone else comments on this ancient article? I could make this comments section my own. I rule this comments section! My opinion is all that counts. It's nice to feel important. It takes away the suffocating pain that real life brings me. It is very important that nobody ruins my dream comments section.

I remember reading the mutilation version of cinderella, need to get me a adult version of the brother's grimm, my one while darker than most of the fairy stories lacks the violence said to be presen in this article.

im pretty sure this story is actually old. go to http://stuffididlastnight.com for full details

Ha, the Snowwhite story was the first text that I read on my own when I was just 5. The heart eating version. However, this didn't impress me much.

... I thought all of this was common knowledge... I knew all of it already..

Talking about a bird getting wood just gave me the wrong mental image.
And wasn't the mutilation left in the Roald Dahl version of cinderella?

I have a copy of the Grimm's Fairy tales. the stories get weirder. Imagine a story about a mouse, a bird and a sausage living together. the sausage cooks it self for dinner every night, the mouse does house hold chores, and the bird gets wood. one day, the bird decides to get lazy, and says that he won't get would. he'd rather do the mouses job. so the sausage gets wood, the mouse cooks it's self, and the bird gets water. the sausage gets eaten by a dog, the mouse cooks himself dead (why didn't the sausage die?), and the bird falls into a well and dies. the lesson? do what you're supposed to, or EVERYONE DIES.

i'd heard about the cinderella thing, but that Sleeping Beauty was creepy. Maybe it's cuz i just watched it again recently

"You can probably understand why Disney went with Perrault's version for an adaptation."

Yeah back in the day the censors kind of had this thing against birds pecking eyes out and women chopping their own toes off in a movie for kids.

Why are you spelling the Grimms with an apostrophe? I think that's wrong.

Re Cinderella, I've read non-Disney versions where there was no stepmother, just two stepsisters. In one such version, believe it or not, though the stepsisters looked down on Cinderella somewhat and treated her like a slave, they actually got along. Also, when they found out who she was, they fell on their faces to ask forgiveness. Now THAT was the best version. And they weren't even ugly.