8 Dark Facts You Didn't Know About Fairy Tales
In Disney's Snow White, The Queen died from falling off a cliff.
But originally, Snow white ordered that her mother wear red hot iron shoes, forged by the dwarves, and forced her to dance until she falls down and dies.
Also, the huntsman sent by her jealous mother was to bring back Snow White's lungs and liver, which she wanted to salt, cook, and eat.
In Aladdin, wishes had no limits and that there were two items that could grant unlimited wishes.
A ring inside the cavern had the same powers as the magic lamp.
In the original story of Sleeping Beauty the prince did not announce to his family about his bride. Instead, they waited until they had children.
Why? His mother was an ogress that planned to eat the children, but before she could she was eaten alive in a pit full of serpents.
In other folk versions of Sleeping Beauty, the prince finds her dead body being carried by little men in the forest.
The prince finds her beauty irresistible in death, and demands that they give him the body.
Later, one of the servants carry the coffin stumbles, dislodging the apple from her mouth; she wakes up, and then they marry each other as complete strangers, right on the spot.
In the Grimm Brothers’ story, Frog Prince, he turned into a prince not through a kiss from the princess.
It was because she threw him against a wall in utter disgust.
Cinderella's stepsisters, beautiful and evil, like their mom, are given a knife by her to cut off parts of their feet so they can fit into the golden slipper.
The original story of Beauty and the Beast, Belle, or the beauty, had several siblings.
Upon going back home, they told her to stay and to never go back to the beast.
But she did, and when she arrived back at the beast’s castle, he was almost dead but recovered upon seeing her.
Rumpelstiltskin goes crazy, and in his rage he drove his right foot into the ground where it sank up to his waist.
In his rage, he then took his left foot and tore himself into two.