Truly Grim Fairy Tales

Part 1. Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Horror

Originally, Fairy Tales were far grimmer than the Grimm versions you
might know. Sleeping Beauty is the tale that has been changed the
most by far. Forget everything you know about the Disney version and
think of the realm of gothic horror instead. It's far closer in tone.

Firstly, here are links to sites that explain the original Sleeping
Beauty. If you are squeamish, I suggest passing on reading this one.
Cannibalism, necrophilia, rape, and bloody murder are all themes, as
well as the notion of undeath, with hints of blackest necromancy too.

http://www.uselessinformation.org/sleeping_beauty/index.html

http://virginpoet.blogspot.com/2007/12/sleeping-beauty-fairy-tale-of-rape-and.html

This is one of the most horrifying fairy tales ever written... and so
much more interesting than the watered down version kids read today.
Once you have read this, you'll wonder why the heck peasants in the
old days even told such a story to their children. The answer is very
simple: to frighten and caution them about the world they lived in!
The Middle Ages were not a safe time, and terrible things could occur
even to the most innocent of people. How else to prepare a child for
such a world, then to tell them cautionary tales with a dose of dark
fantasy and a tiny grain of truth? Censorship did not exist back in
those times... and you had to begin life hard to endure life's many
hardships. Let us examine another of these dark tales in more detail.

Part 2. Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Nobody knows how the original version of Snow White went. A movie was
made, though, that offers one possibility and it is a very "grim" one.
Here is a link to "The Grimm Brothers' Snow White: A Tale of Terror".
(Although the Grimm Brothers, really, had nothing to do with it!)

http://www.hulu.com/the-grimm-brothers-snow-white-a-tale-of-terror

You can actually watch the whole movie there, so if you like a good
gothic horror movie... enjoy! Feel free to discuss your opinions of
it in this thread, if you wish. I myself find it the best version of
Snow White ever. It would have given Disney nightmares to watch this!
I'm not sure if this is really the version medieval peasants told to
their children, but if it was... it says something about the parents.

Oh, and yes! That is Sigourney Weaver in the role of the evil queen,
and Sam Neil as the king (who pays way too much attention to his own
daughter, so really... can you blame the queen for being jealous?)

Part 3. Grimm Images

Well, that's all we have time for in this posting. See you next time!
Before I go, though... here are some images to keep you in the mood:

Snow White gone Evil!...





Snow White gone Gothic!...





Sleeping Beauty: Dead, or Undead?...





Things to consider for next time:

1. Was Alice in Wonderland really Alice tripping on drugs?
  Drink me, eat me, magic mushrooms, and caterpillars smoking hookahs...
  Sounds pretty trippy to me. Let's hear your thoughts on this!
  Have a pic:

2. Was the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz a dead farmhand made of human flesh?
  This fellow believes it was! And the Tin Man also has a dark secret...
  http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=17569&highlight=fairy+tales
  Actually, that fellow is *me* writing under the name "Professor Chaos".
  Read my article... and see what *you* think of the merry old land of Oz.
  Believe it or not, there's a pic for this too:

3. Lastly, is Little Red Riding hood really about a pedophile werewolf?
  In the original version of the story, the wolf asks Little Red to take her cloths off before getting in bed with him.
  Not exactly somehting an ordinary wolf would do, is it? Let's hear what you think of the big bad hairy sicko!
  This picture says it all (OMG!!! Is that Wolverine in this picture?):

Nat Geo did a special on these I remember.

Also: Alice in Wonderland was written by an alleged paedophile. He was making the story up as he went. He could've been under the influence of Opium (I'm told it was fashionable at the time), but it's generally considered that he was just trying to entertain his little friends.

IIRC: Nat Geo featured basically a much more graphic Little Red Riding Hood, with the details of how the hunter dispatched the wolf, and how the wolf dispatched the grandmother.

A penchant for noncery and necrophilia, eh? Takes all sorts.

Your article on the Wizard of Oz was interesting. You're implying that the Lion's gay, right?

No Alice in wonderland, the only conclusion I can make from it, is about being MK mind controlled. First she goes into a chamber, then she drinks some stuff (Which could resemble being drugged out), is then made to be brought to a child like state (Entering wonderland through the little door), and then eventually emerges a new "Better" person with the help of a butterfly (the catapiller which emerges at the end of the story) which resembles a Monarch (Or project Monarch).

Just for the record. I'd tap that.

The video of the song "Sonne" from Rammstein comes to mind...

Heard that Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a lucid dream, actually; not drugs.