Fairytales are gruesome. They aren’t fabulous.
They are not beautiful stories for children.
They are especially not what Disney made of them.
They are better suited for Halloween than for Valentine’s Day.
Today I will tell my favorite gruesome fairy tales.
Intro Music.
#1: Snow White
Snow White has a lot of parts that are horrendous,
but what happens at the very beginning is the worst.
Everyone knows that the stepmother was evil and that she wanted to kill Snow White.
She sent Snow White into the forest with a hunter.
As proof of the contract murder, he was supposed to bring back the lung and liver of the girl.
The hunter brought back instead the lung and liver of a wild boar.
The stepmother had the organs cooked and she ate them.
She wanted to eat Snow White’s lung and liver!
How sick is that?
Bonus Points for the end of Snow White:
Snow White and the prince celebrated their wedding.
The evil stepmother was also invited to the wedding celebration.
When she arrived, the prince made her put on glowing red-hot iron slippers.
Then she had to dance in them until she fell down dead.
I think the prince is called “Jigsaw”. He wants to play a game.
#2: Sleeping Beauty
There are a lot of problems with this fairytale.
First of all, Sleeping Beauty was only 15 years old when she fell asleep.
She was a minor, but that is only a part of the problem.
Sleeping Beauty wasn’t awoken by a kiss, but rather the sucking of a child on her finger.
This was one of the two children she gave birth to while she was asleep.
She was 15 years old. And she was asleep.
Whose children are these?
#3:The little mermaid
When the mermaid gets her fish tale turned into legs by the sea witch,
it causes so much pain with every step that it felt as if she were walking on knife points.
The prince married another woman.
If the mermaid didn’t want to dissolve into sea foam, she had to kill the prince.
Because she couldn’t bear that she dissolved into sea foam.
The prince didn’t notice anything at all. He was just celebrating his wedding.
At least he was happy in the end.
#4: Cinderella
In order to fit into the glass slipper with her big foot,
the first stepsister cut her big toe off.
The prince was too stupid to notice, that her food was bleeding.
A few doves told him that she wasn’t the right woman.
The second stepsister cut off her heel.
He didn’t notice that either and the doves had to rescue him from a wrong decision again.
The slipper fit Cinderella’s foot and the prince married her.
At the wedding the doves pecked out the eyes of the stepsisters.
The early bird catches the worm, but these birds were also well fed in the afternoon, too.
#5: Peter Pan
Peter Pan is the only child in Neverland that will never grow up, but the other children will.
Peter Pan doesn’t want to grow up, because he hates adults.
He hates them so much that when the other children get too old, he kills them.
New children come and become part of the group, the Lost Boys.
No one grows up in Neverland, but not because of magic.
Peter Pan is a mass murderer.
I want to see this film.
Cameron Monaghan plays the leading role.
Kristen Bell is Wendy.
She thinks that Peter is handsome, but finds out what really happened to the boys.
She seeks help from Captain Hook, whose son was killed by Peter Pan.
Captain isn’t a bad man.
He just wants to avenge his son.
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That is my list for today.
What do you think?
What are the most gruesome fairy tales?
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