DisneyDisney's animated series has established what many people around the world think of as fairy tales. They usually start with a plucky, kind-hearted heroine who wants more and end with a terrifying villain encounter and a blissful encounter with true love. Disney didn't invent these fairy tales, however. They've been around for centuries before, and many of the older versions go in completely different directions than what people might recognize.
People may think that fairy tales end with a happy marriage, usually into a royal family, but In fact, many older versions of classic stories have a second act in which the villain attempts to take revenge on the protagonist.Sometimes, villains suffer terrible fates, even if they deserve it.
However, heroes are not always promised a happy ending in fairy tales either. Of course, it is important to remember that fairy tales have been told for so long that there are almost certainly countless versions of the story that have been lost to time.
8 Snow White was saved by her father.
Many who grew up watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Remember the famous scene of the prince waking Snow White from her death-like state with a kiss. However, while the Brothers Grimm have several different versions of the story, there is no magic kiss. In the original manuscript, for example, the prince has nothing to do with Snow White's awakening.
There was no first love kiss either.
In this version, Snow White's parents are given a larger role. The Queen is Snow White's own mother, It's the princess's father who found her. In the forest in the glass coffin. However, the king still arranges for Snow White to marry a prince after she is revived.
In other versions, the prince is involved in Snow White's awakening, but usually only indirectly. In one story, a love-sick prince orders his servants to carry Snow White's coffin everywhere he goes.Eventually, one of the servants got so fed up with this that he beat the girl, causing her to cough up the poison apple, reviving her. In another story, the prince's men tripped while carrying her coffin, again dislodging the apple.
7 Beauty and the Beast were cousins.
beauty and the beast Belle breaks the spell on the prince, turning him into the title beast. While this is also the case in the original story, some things are different. In Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's version, the prince's mother is horrified to learn that Beauty is the daughter of a merchant and not of noble blood. A fairy who has been watching over Beauty comes to her defense.
Belle was kind of a changeling.
Not only does the fairy point out that the beauty has proven herself worthy of breaking the spell, she also reveals that the girl is actually a lost princess who has been placed within the merchant's family for protection, having taken the place of the merchant's deceased infant daughter. It is revealed that Beauty's real father and Beast's mother are brother and sister.making the couple blood cousins.
Much of this was cut when Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont shortened the story. However, her version also added another aspect to the ending. In this version, Beauty's sisters, who had tried to delay her return to the Beast, Cursed to become living statues They always watch their sister in her happiness.
6 Rapunzel carrying in the tower
RapunzelInspiration for tangled It tells the story of a girl who is held captive by a witch, and her singing attracts the love of a prince, but he doesn't exactly save her. In the original Brothers Grimm version of the story, the witch realizes that Rapunzel has a secret visitor when Become pregnant with the prince's children.
The enraged witch banishes Rapunzel to the wilderness (where she gives birth to her children) and blinds the prince. Fortunately, the blind prince finds Rapunzel and her tears restore his sight.
The prince doesn't always survive the story.
Interestingly, Disney included magic tears in her version of the story, where Rapunzel was able to heal Flynn Rider after he was fatally wounded by Mother Gothel. Many early versions also include the death of the prince at the end of the story, often permanently. An example of this is the French version of the story, “Parselette,” where the heroine decides to return to her godmother after running away with a prince, Which led to him falling dead.
5 The little mermaid did not marry the prince
Disney The Little Mermaid We see Ariel, the mermaid that the film is named after, get her happy ending when her father allows her to return to the upper world and marry her prince. The film even got a sequel that introduced the mermaid's daughter and her prince. Hans Christian Andersen's original story goes a little differently.
Ariel's name may refer to the original ending.
Originally, the prince falls in love with a temple girl who he believes is the one who truly saved him. To his delight, and the mermaid's misfortune, she turns out to be a foreign princess and his fiancée. The sea witch gives the mermaid the chance to return to the prince if she kills him.But she refuses, even if it means turning into sea foam.
But her sacrifice was not in vain. Instead of dying, she is transformed into a “daughter of the air” and joins others of her kind. Despite losing the prince, she has a chance to win his soul.Interestingly, fans have often wondered over the years whether the name of the mermaid in the Disney version, Ariel, is a reference to the “daughters of the air” in the original story.
4 Sleeping Beauty has a full second season.
disney endings sleeping beauty With the prince saving the princess with a kiss, they walk to meet her parents and celebrate their engagement. However, Charles Perrault's original story continues a little further after this point.First of all, there is no kiss, the princess simply wakes up because a hundred years have passed and a prince entered the castle at the right time. Also, the princess's parents died a long time ago.
Basil's version is darker.
After Sleeping Beauty marries the prince, he leaves for war, leaving her and their two children at the mercy of the prince's mother, Which turned out to be a flesh-hungry ghoul.The mother-in-law orders her servants to gradually kill the princess and her children and cook them for her to eat, but they hide them instead.
The queen finds out, but the prince returns just in time, causing his mother to throw herself into a tub full of snakes. Sleeping Beauty is supposed to live happily ever after, assuming the prince does not inherit his mother's wishes.
Interestingly, An earlier Italian version of the story, “The Sun, the Moon, and Thalia,” by Giambattista Basile, took this second chapter in a darker direction.Instead of a prince, a married king finds the sleeping girl Talia and forces himself on her, causing her to bear two children, Sun and Moon. Similar to Perrault, the queen later wants to destroy the heroine and her children, but this time, she is the king's wife instead of his mother.
3 The princess almost killed the frog
The Princess and the Frog Only uses the original fairy tale. The frog prince As a starting point. In fact, The original story is in the universe.The film begins with Tiana's mother, Eudora, sharing the story with her daughter and Charlotte, foreshadowing things to come. However, the version presented in the film is slightly different from the Brothers Grimm's.
It's not easy being green.
In popular culture, a cursed prince is saved by a kiss from a princess. In fact, this has given rise to the popular saying, “You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince.” However, In the Brothers Grimm version, there is no magic kiss.Instead, the princess agrees to be the frog's friend and companion if he brings her the golden ball. However, she is so fed up with him that she throws him through a wall. This violent act is what breaks the spell, though the two end up falling in love with each other.
Many early releases have The frog “dies” somehow. To break the spell, such as having the heroine cut off the frog's head. Interestingly, Tiana crushing Naveen with a book can be seen as a legacy of the violent fates the frog prince faces in such stories.
2 Pinocchio dreamed of being a real boy.
By definition, Pinocchio Not quite a fairy tale, it's technically a children's novel by Carlo Collodi, though it does have similar themes of magic and transformation, including a real-life fairy. Of course, the characters are from Disney movies. Pinocchio They are sometimes included in stories and events involving characters from other Disney adaptations of fairy tales. Like Disney, Collodi ends his story with Pinocchio turning into a real boy, but this was not always the plan.
The doll would have died early too.
The story was originally published in serial form and Collodi intended to end the matter by having Pinocchio hanged by the fox and the cat.Allegedly due to the influence of Collodi's editor, more chapters were added in which the doll is rescued by the Turquoise-Haired Fairy, the original version of the Blue Fairy. The story continued, with the Fairy eventually turning the little wooden boy into flesh and blood.
Collodi was also alleged to have been working on a sequel to his story before his death. It is worth noting that Pinocchio was supposed to turn into a human, and it was just a dream.However, it is possible that the puppet would eventually turn into a human being anyway. In fact, the surviving fragments of the manuscript suggest that Pinocchio would eventually turn into a king.
1 Cinderella turns into a ghost story
When it comes to CinderellaMany people expect to hear that in the original Brothers Grimm story, the sisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into the shoe and then birds peck out their eyes, and Disney deleted this part. In fact, the Disney version does not contain these elements because In fact, this book is based more on the version written by Charles Perrault, which preceded Grimm's darker version.Cinderella Perrault forgives her stepsisters and arranges their marriages.
Revenge beyond the grave and the most horrible murder
In many early Asian versions of the story, such as the Vietnamese version, Perfect and complete, Cinderella is killed by her stepmother after marrying the prince. Until he marries her daughter. In these stories, Cinderella rises from the grave to solve the crime. In Perfect and completeFor example, the heroine returns as a variety of animals and objects that are routinely destroyed by her stepmother until she finally regains her human form.
Usually, there is still a happy ending.As Cinderella comes back to life and meets her prince. However, she often takes revenge on her stepmother by killing her half-sister and sending the remains to her mother.When the stepmother realized what had happened, often after confusing the gift with meat or sauce, she died of a broken heart.
Interestingly, the Brothers Grimm noted that the Cinderella story does not always end in marriage, as is the case in some versions they researched. One example they noticed seems to combine the story with Bluebeard. After Cinderella married a king, he told her not to open a secret room, in which there was a well of blood.Her sister pushes her away and takes her place, but in the end Cinderella is rescued by soldiers who hear her cries for help. Of course, there is still the lingering question of why the well was filled with Prince Charming's blood in the first place.
