Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the dark and scary origins
of your favourite fairytales!
Before we get into the video, why don't you let me know what your favourite fairytale
is!
10 - Pinocchio All Pinocchio wants is to be a real boy, but
that is naaaaat happening in Carlo Collodi's original version of the tale.
In the 1800s version of the tale, Pinocchio kills jiminy cricket but throwing a hammer
at him.
Why?
Well he is angry at the cricket being a bit of a know it all so he batters him.
He doesn't even really feel that bad about it.
Then he falls asleep by the fire and his feet burn off, but its alright because good old
Gepetto build him new ones.
THEN naughty Pinocchio is hung from a tree and suffocates.
The moral of the story – disobey and die.
One way to scare the kids into good behaviour.
9 -Sleeping Beauty So the original tale of sleeping beauty is
a story called The Sun, Moon and Talia and is like sleeping beauty, about a princess
that falls into a deep sleep.
At first the similarities are on point – instead of being prophesized to prick her finger on
a spindle and spinning wheel – it is the flax and hemp that is the problem.
The girl gets flax stuck under her fingernail and falls into a deep sleep.
Her rich father has her enshrined in a mausoleum in the woods, where one day a king from another
kingdom finds her.
He rapes her corpse then leaves her.
She then gives birth, and fairies look after her babies, until one day, one of her babies
sucks the flax out from her fingernail and she wakes up.
She names her kids sun and moon as they, like the celestial bodies, are a mystery to her.
The rapey and much older king returns to find her awake an they fall in love… only problem
he has a wife.
His wife then orders her chef to cook her husbands kids and kill the mistress, but he
manages to kill her first.
The King, Talia, sun and moon live happily ever after.
Isn't that nice.
8 Cinderella Cinderella is a heart warming rags to riches
tale… and yeah, the version we know today is sad what with Cinderella being an orphan
and everything, but beyond that – Cinders gets a benevolent fairy godmother who helps
her deal with her sisters and wicked stepmother.
It all works out alright in the end, though – that slipper fits and she marries her
prince.
Sure.
But in the origin versions, her ghastly sisters chop parts of their feet off to be able to
fit in the slipper.
The prince only finds out when he finds blood in the shoe.
Eventually he does find that Cinderella is the true owner and they get married, but that
isn't all….. doves peck out her older sisters eyes.
Hip hip horray!
7 Snow White Sooo we all love a bit of snow white, right!
In the story we know and love, Snow White is a princess with a wicked stepmother who
forces her out of her home because she is jealous of her beauty.
She meets seven kindly dwarves in the woods who take care of her, but when the wicked
stepmother finds out she is still alive, she tries to poison her.
Later she is awoken by a prince with true loves kiss.
Things weren't so cutesy in the original Brothers Grimm Tale - Snow white is indeed
cast out, but the wicked step mother, Queen of the Kingdom, asks a huntsman to murder
her in the woods and bring back her heart and lungs so she can eat them.
The huntsman spares her, but the Queen finds out and tries to kill her three more times.
Eventually, she gatecrashes snow white and the prince's wedding and is then forced
to put on a pair of burning red hot iron shoes that have ben in the fire and dance in them
until she dies.
Her flesh is burned badly, but she eventually drops dead of exhaustion.
THAT sounds more like the origin story behind the red wedding that a beloved fairytale.
6 - The Goose Girl I hadn't heard of the Goose Girl but I hear
it is a very popular tale in Germany and Eastern Europe.
It is a bed time fairytale but its origins are the stuff of nightmares.
To cut a long story short, in the original tale, a deceitful maid is thrown into a barrel
with spikes and is rolled around until she died.
Ahh… classic medieval torture.
That does sound particularly grim… is it worse than being hung drawn and quartered,
or better?
What about being pulled apart by horses?
5 - Hansel and Gretel There are kind of two twisted origins here
that merged to create one story – told verbally for hundreds of years but first written down
by the Brothers Grimm.
So, back in medieval Germany, where the tale is set, there were wide spread famines and
people simply could no longer provide for their children – so abandoned them, leaving
them to die alone in the woods – possibly from starvation, or possibly by being eaten
by animals.
This legit happened in history.
The next part of the tale comes from the story of a pair of rival bakers.
One of them had the misfortune of being a woman.
Katharina Schraderin was well known for her incredible gingerbread in her German village
in the 1600s.
A competing male baker became jealous of her success, so played on a timeless trend of
smearing the woman with nasty rumours.
What could he do in the 1600s?
Well, he called her a witch.
In accusing her, he convinced others to track her down.
The posse rounded her up and burned her to death in her own bakers oven.
Right.
4 - Mulan In the original Mulan written by Chu Reno
and was called The Ballad if Hua Mulan.
Any ballad can't be a good thing…
Hua Mulan was a legendary Chinese woman.
In the ballad, like in the fairytale, she disguises herself as a man in order to join
the army and falls in love with Luo Cheng.
When she comes back from war, she discovers hat her father has died and her mother has
remarried.
Not only that – the man who waged war in the first place has called for her to be his
concubine – so his sex slave basically.
Instead of doing that, she commits suicide.
Before she does – she gets her sister to dress as a man and send a letter to Luo Chang.
Her sister does, but then ends up sleeping with him herself.
Horrifying.
3 - Red Riding Hood The story of Red Riding Hood that we know
and love today includes a Grandma, a wolf, a little girl and a hunter.
Despite a few darker undertones, the story has a happy ending and Red Riding Hood is
reunited with her grandma and the bad wolf killed….
Not so much in the original, though.
In the earliest versions, which were said to originate in Italy and were said to be
named things like the story of Grandmother or false grandmother.
In these early versions, while it was usually a wolf that did the taunting, some versions
had a vampire or ogre.
In the origin tales, the wolf kills the grandmother and gets Red Ridinghood to unwittingly eat
her body and drink her blood.
He then strips the girl naked, forces her to burn her clothes and then makes her get
in bed with him.
In most of the old stories he eats her, but in some…well.. it is worse.
2 - The Pied Piper of Hamlin So we know the story of the Pied Piper – it
is popular but admittedly dark fairytale in which a town in Lower Saxony Germany is infested
with rats – as it probably would have been in the middle ages.
Enter the Pied Piper – a man with a magical pipe who does a deal with the town mayor to
lure all of the rats away.
He does this successfully and the town is rid of the rodents, however the mayor refuses
to pay, so the Pied Piper uses his magic pipe to lead away all of the town's children
in revenge.
Well, it turns out the dark origin here is that, well… it is actually true.
Surviving town records from the church of Hamlin say: In the year of 1284, on the day
of Saints John and Paul on June 26, by a piper, clothed in many kinds of colours, 130 children
born in Hamelin were seduced, and lost at the place of execution near the koppen.
It is thought the children were taken as part of the children's crusade, and the whole
business with the rats was added later.
Some even say that the real piper was a peadophile who abducted the children in their sleep.
1 - Ariel The Little Mermaid Hands down, the origin story to the Little
Mermaid is horrifying!
Hans Christian Andersen's original tale was gruesome.
I hope you are ready for it.
Instead of a princess mermaid falling in love, exchanging her voice for legs and marrying
a prince to live happily ever after, the origin was fraught with bad decision making and utter
heartbreak.
The Mermaid is indeed a princess and does indeed save the life of a prince she falls
for.
She also makes a bargain with a sea witch in exchange for legs so she can meet him.
Only the original version is much more intense – the sea witch takes the mermaid's tongue
and gives her legs – bit everytime she walks she feels the pain for walking on knives,
impaling herself and her feet bleed regularly.
She is told if she doesn't secure the love of the prince, she will die.
She meets the prince – who asks her to dance for him, which she does even though it causes
her pure and utter anguish.
He then falls in love with someone else, breaking her heart.
Her mermaid sisters sell their hair to the sea witch for a knife that offers the mermaid
a way out.
If she kills the prince and drips his blood on her legs, she can end her pain and become
a mermaid again.
Sadly for her, she loves him too much and instead, as the witch promised, she dies.
Right.
Not so great, then.
SO that was the top 10 scary fairytale dark origins….what did you think to that!
I'm shocked some of our best loved stories come from such horrible tales and fables ! We
used to be daaaark!
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