On a winter day, while the snow was falling in flakes, the queen sat alone and sewed under the window, which had an ebony frame. She sewed and looked at the snow, and pricked her finger with a needle until it bled. And the queen thought to herself: “Oh, if only I had a child white as snow, ruddy as blood, and black as ebony!”

And soon her wish was definitely fulfilled: her daughter was born - white as snow, ruddy as blood, and black-haired; and was named Snow White for her whiteness.

And as soon as the daughter was born, the queen mother died. A year later, the king married someone else. This second wife of his was a beauty, but she was also proud and arrogant, and could not tolerate that anyone could equal her in beauty.

Moreover, she had such a magic mirror, in front of which she loved to stand, admire herself and say:

Then the mirror answered her:

And she walked away from the mirror, satisfied and satisfied, and knew that the mirror would not tell her a lie.

Meanwhile, Snow White grew up and became more beautiful, and already in her eighth year she was as beautiful as a clear day. And when the queen once asked the mirror:

The mirror answered her:

You, queen, are beautiful;

But Snow White is still more beautiful.

The queen was horrified, turned yellow and green with envy. From the hour she used to see Snow White, her heart was ready to burst into pieces out of anger. And envy and pride, like weeds, began to grow in her heart and grow wider and wider, so that finally she had no peace day or night.

And then one day she called her hound and said: “Take this girl out into the forest so that she doesn’t come into my sight again. Kill her and, as proof that my order has been carried out, bring me her lung and liver.”

The huntsman obeyed, led the girl out of the palace into the forest, and as he took out his hunting knife to pierce the innocent heart of Snow White, she began to cry and ask: “ a kind person, do not kill me; I will run away into the dense forest and never return home.”

The huntsman took pity on the pretty girl and said: “Well, go. God be with you, poor girl! And he himself thought: “Wild animals will quickly tear you to pieces in the forest,” and yet it was as if a stone had been lifted from his heart when he spared the child.

Just at this time a young deer jumped out of the bushes; the huntsman pinned him, took out his lung and liver and brought them to the queen as proof that her order had been carried out.

The cook was ordered to salt and cook them, and the evil woman ate them, imagining that she was eating Snow White’s lung and liver.

And so the poor thing found herself alone in a dense forest, and she became so scared that she examined every leaf on the trees, and did not know what to do and what to do.

And she started to run, and ran over sharp stones and thorny bushes, and wild animals scurried past her back and forth, but did not cause her any harm.

She ran as long as her quick little legs carried her, almost until the evening; when she got tired, she saw a small hut and entered it.

Everything in this hut was small, but so clean and beautiful that it was impossible to say. In the middle of the hut there was a table with seven small plates, and on each plate there was a spoon, and then seven knives and forks, and with each utensil there was a glass. Near the table there were seven little beds in a row, covered with snow-white bed linen.

Snow White, who was very hungry and thirsty, tasted vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine from each glass, because she did not want to take everything away from one. Then, tired from walking, she tried to lie down on one of the beds; but not a single one suited her; one was too long, the other was too short, and only the seventh was just right for her. She lay down in it, crossed herself and fell asleep.

When it became completely dark, its owners came to the hut - seven gnomes who were rummaging in the mountains, mining ore. They lit their seven candles, and when it became light in the hut, they saw that someone had visited them, because not everything was in the order in which they had left everything in their home.

The first one said: “Who was sitting on my chair?” Second: “Who ate my plate?” Third: “Who broke off a piece of my bread?” Fourth: “Who tasted my food?” Fifth: “Who ate with my fork?” Sixth: “Who cut me with a knife?” Seventh: “Who drank from my glass?”

Then the first one turned around and saw that there was a small fold on his bed; he immediately said: “Who touched my bed?” Everyone else ran to the beds and shouted: “Someone was lying in mine, and in mine too!”

And the seventh, looking into his bed, saw Snow White lying in it sleeping. He called the others, and they came running and began to exclaim in amazement, and brought their seven candles to the crib to illuminate Snow White. "Oh my god! - they exclaimed. “How beautiful this little one is!” - and everyone was so happy about her arrival that they did not dare to wake her up, and left her alone on that bed.

And the seventh gnome decided to spend the night like this: in the crib of each of his comrades he had to sleep for one hour.

When morning came, Snow White woke up and, seeing seven dwarfs, got scared. They treated her very kindly and asked her: “What is your name?” “My name is Snow White,” she answered. “How did you get into our house?” - the gnomes asked her.

Then she told them that her stepmother had ordered to kill her, but the huntsman spared her - and so she ran all day until she came across their hut.

The gnomes said to her: “Would you like to look after our household needs - cook, wash for us, make beds, sew and knit? And if you do all this skillfully and neatly, then you can stay with us for a long time and will not lack anything.” “If you please,” Snow White answered, “with great pleasure,” and she stayed with them.

She kept the dwarves' house in great order; in the morning they usually went to the mountains in search of copper and gold, in the evening they returned to their hut, and then food was always ready for them.

All day Snow White remained alone in the house, and therefore the good gnomes warned her and said: “Beware of your stepmother! She will soon find out where you are, so don’t let anyone into the house except us.”

And the queen stepmother, after she ate Snow White’s lung and liver, suggested that she was now the first beauty in the whole country, and said:

Then the mirror answered her:

You, queen, are beautiful,

But still Snow White is behind the mountain

Lives in the house of the mountain gnomes,

Many will surpass you in beauty.

The queen was afraid; she knew that the mirror never lied, and she realized that the hound had deceived her and that Snow White was alive.

And she began to think about how she could get rid of her stepdaughter, because envy haunted her and she certainly wanted to be the first beauty in the whole country.

When she finally came up with something, she painted her face, dressed as an old merchant and became completely unrecognizable.

Incredible facts

Many may be quite surprised to learn that some Disney cartoons, which have been so popular among children for several generations, are actually initially they are not based on good and positive stories.

This may be shocking, but these very stories were based on violence, murder, cannibalism and other blood-chilling events.

Original versions of fairy tales

It is generally accepted that Disney, by changing the original versions of fairy tales, made them kind and pleasant, and therefore more accessible to the general public. However, there are also those who accuses Disney of unfairly distorting the original stories.

Some of the very first versions of fairy tales became known to us thanks to the Internet and discussions on various forums. However, there are many Disney stories that actually look different, and we don’t even realize about “substitution” of the plot.

Listed below are examples of lesser-known versions of popular cartoons that more than one generation of young viewers have grown up with.

Pinocchio Disney

1. Pinocchio: Corpses and Murder

Original version: Pinocchio becomes a murderer, and in the end he himself dies

In the very first version of the tale, Pinocchio was punished with death for his disobedience. Wooden boy ruthless towards old Gepetto and constantly teases him. The old man begins to pursue Pinocchio and ends up in prison for allegedly offending the boy.




Pinocchio returns home where he meets a hundred-year-old cricket who tells him that naughty children turn into donkeys. However, the wooden boy, not wanting to listen to wise advice, in a fit of anger, he throws a hammer at the cricket and kills it.

Pinocchio ends his life by being burned in a fire. Before his death, he sees the same fairy who saves him in the Disney version. The wooden boy is choking on smoke. Witnesses to his dying suffering are a cat with a mutilated paw, which Pinocchio had previously bitten off, and a fox. Both animals were hanged by the evil wooden boy.




The editors found this ending too angry and sad. Therefore, it was decided to change the second part and add a different ending to make the story more positive and kind.

Thanks to the efforts of Walt Disney, after numerous misadventures that Pinocchio experienced due to his own disobedience and stubbornness, he returns to his old father and becomes a good boy.

History of Aladdin

2. Dismemberment in Aladdin

IN original version: Cassim was mutilated and brutally killed

For those who don't know, Cassim is the father that Aladdin lost in early childhood. This hero appears in the third part of the film. Cassim is the leader of the Forty Thieves gang. Surely everyone has heard about this gang.




The stories of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" begin to become closely intertwined. To go to the wedding of his son and Princess Jasmine, Cassim had to leave his villainous business for a while.

In the original version, Ali Baba learns what words need to be spoken in order to get into the cave where forty thieves keep their treasures. He then tells his brother Cassim about the gold, also telling him magic words, thanks to which he still ends up in the treasury.




However, from the greedy excitement that gripped him at the sight of such untold wealth, Cassim forgets his magic spells and cannot leave the cave. At this moment the robbers return. Seeing an unexpected guest, they kill him in cold blood.

Fallen princesses: what happened to the heroines of fairy tales after the wedding?

Cassim's body was then cut into pieces. The robbers left the dismembered limbs at the entrance to the cave as a warning to others who wanted to enter the treasury.

At the end of the tale, after numerous scenes of murder, only the slave remains alive.

Cinderella: original version

3. Cinderella the Killer

In the original version: Cinderella kills her evil stepmother

Perhaps each of us is familiar with two versions of the fairy tale about a poor girl who was offended by her evil stepmother. "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm is based on the fairy tale by Giambattista Basile.

In Basile's version there is another character - the governess, who at first is very supportive of Cinderella. The girl cries to her about her bitter fate and complains about her evil stepmother. The governess advises her to kill the one who makes Cinderella's life unbearable.




With one blow from the chest lid to the neck, the girl takes the life of her tormentor. The governess marries Cinderella's father. However, her life becomes even sadder and harder than before.

As it turned out, the new stepmother has seven daughters whom she hid. When they were presented to Cinderella's father, he forgets about his own daughter. Now Cinderella is doomed to hard work around the clock. She is forced to do the most menial chores around the house.

5 Little-Known Versions of Famous Children's Fairy Tales

The final part of the story is very similar to a traditional fairy tale. Disney did not change the ending of the story, since in any version the fairy tale about Cinderella has a happy ending. The poor girl, after her ordeal, marries prince charming.




And with Charles Perrault, and with the Brothers Grimm, and with Basile, a simple servant becomes a princess. Disney, being a supporter of the "happy ending", did not change the final part of the story, but only added positivity and joyful faces to it.

So, the story about a poor girl with whom the prince falls in love was not always as harmless and pure as Disney presents us with.

Sleeping Beauty - original

4. Sleeping Beauty is among the dead

In the original version: Sleeping Beauty rests among decaying corpses

Everyone remembers how in the famous fairy tale the witch cursed the girl. At the age of fifteen, the beauty was supposed to die from a spindle injection. However, another witch softened the curse, promising that it will not be death, but a dream lasting a hundred years.

The briar bushes that grew thickly around the castle became a thorny trap for hundreds of young people who tried to pass through these thorns in the hope of seeing the sleeping princess. They all died after getting tangled in the bushes. They died a terrible and painful death.




Exactly one hundred years later, as the second witch predicted, the curse subsided. The abundant vegetation, which had become the grave of many young men, turned into wonderful flowers.

A prince passing by on a horse sees Beauty. With his kiss he brings her back to life. This is exactly the happy ending that Disney filmed.




The original version of this story came from the same Giambattista Basile. And his fairy tale script was much less pure and joyful.

In his version, the king rapes the sleeping Beauty. In a dream, a girl becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. Then she wakes up, but her life is darkened by the machinations of the evil queen, who, in the end, burns in fire intended for Beauty.

Despite the fact that the ending of the fairy tale is also happy, it is difficult not to admit that the entire plot of the story is filled with disgusting scenes of violence and murder.

Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid

5. Bloodthirsty Little Mermaid

Disney made the cartoon "The Little Mermaid", taking as a basis the plot of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In this story, for the sake of the prince, the young Little Mermaid makes enormous sacrifices: her tongue is cut out, and her legs bleed.




Mermaid endures unbearable pain in order to stay with her loved one. However, the prince marries someone else. Unable to kill the one she loves more than herself and her family, the Little Mermaid commits suicide by turning into sea foam.

However, Andersen himself came up with his own tale based on another story written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque. His version of Ondine is more cruel and sad.




Having received a human soul, Ondine marries a knight. However, numerous relatives of the mermaid are plotting, thereby interfering with her happiness with her husband. On top of everything else, the knight falls in love with Bertida, who settles in their castle.

Disney cartoons pale in comparison to Soviet cartoons

To save her lover and his new passion from the wrath of her uncle, the evil merman, Ondine commits suicide by throwing herself into the river. The knight marries Bertida. However, Ondine returns in the form of a mermaid and kills her unfaithful husband.

A stream suddenly appears near the knight’s grave, which is a kind of symbol of the fact that the mermaid and her lover are together even in the next world, and their love is stronger than life and death.

Fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Thunders

6. Torture of unfortunate Snow White

In the original version: Snow White was tortured and became a slave.

In the story described by the Brothers Grimm, the queen attempted Snow White's life three times: at first she tried to strangle the girl by tightening the corset so tightly that deprived her of the ability to breathe.

Then she combs the girl's hair poisonous comb. When this method did not bring the desired result, the evil queen decides poison stepdaughter with an apple, biting into which she dies.




The dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin. A prince passing by, seeing the beautiful deceased, decides to take the coffin home. With a strong push, a piece of the poisoned apple falls out of Snow White's throat, and she comes to life.

At the wedding of her stepdaughter and a handsome prince, the evil queen dances in shoes made of hot iron, then dies from burns to his legs.

Perhaps many will be surprised by the fact that the Brothers Grimm borrowed the idea of ​​the fairy tale from the same Basile, whose version was particularly bloodthirsty and numerous scenes of violence.

According to Basile's story, the girl dies at the age of seven. Her body is placed in seven glass coffins. The key to the coffin is kept by the uncle of the deceased, as the girl’s mother is dying of grief. In a dream, the girl continues to grow and by a certain age she becomes a real beauty.




The uncle's wife finds a coffin with a deceased woman. She pulls her hair, the poisonous comb falls out, and the girl comes to life. Suspecting the poor woman of being her husband's mistress, the woman begins to treat her poorly.

Snow White's hair is cut off, she is beaten half to death, and she is made a slave. The poor thing is subjected to humiliation and beatings every day. This causes her to have black circles under her eyes and bleeding from her mouth.

The girl decides to take her own life, but before doing so she tells the doll about her difficult fate. Snow White's uncle, having overheard her confession, understands everything. He divorces his wife, treats his crippled niece, then marries her to a rich and good man.

The Story of Hercules

7. Self-immolation of Hercules




In the original version: Hercules burns himself

Zeus, the supreme god, rapes Alcmene, the wife of Amphitryon, who also has intimate relations with her that same night. As a result, Alcmene is pregnant with two babies from different fathers. From Zeus son Hercules is born.

The boy grows up, becomes a great and valiant warrior and marries the beautiful Megara. In a state of madness brought upon him by Hera, Hercules kills his children.




At the end of the story, his fourth wife hangs herself after seeing Hercules tear off his clothes and skin. He's trying to burn himself alive. However, only his flesh is burned in the funeral pyre. The immortal part of his being returns to Olympus, where he lives happily ever after with Hera.

8. The Fox and the Death of the Hunting Dog

In the original version: both animals die a terrible death

Copper and Chief, a brave hunting dog, have a complicated relationship. Copper hates Chief and is jealous of his master. It is obvious that the owner singles out Chief among all his dogs. This is not surprising: after all, somehow Chief saved him from a bear attack, while Copper, frightened by the huge beast, simply hid.




Tod is a fox who always teased his master's dogs, driving them to madness. One day, after another provocation from Tod, the Chief breaks loose. While chasing a daring fox, Chief is hit by a train and dies.

Grieving, the owner swears revenge on the fox. He trains Copper to ignore all foxes except Tod.

Meanwhile, Tod and the old Fox are causing trouble in the forest. However, Copper and the owner, having stumbled upon the foxes' den, poisoned the little foxes inside with gas. Master mercilessly kills Tod's cubs one after another.




Todd himself always manages to escape death. But Copper finds Tod and kills him. The dog himself is very exhausted and also almost gives up his soul to God. However, the owner is nursing his dog. For a while, both are almost happy.

Unfortunately, the owner starts drinking and ends up in a nursing home. In desperation, he takes a gun and kills his faithful dog. Copper died at the hands of his own master. This is the very sad ending to the original story about the Fox and the faithful dog.

Cartoon Hunchback

9. Death and suffering in "The Hunchback"




In the original version: both Esmeralda and Quasimodo are subjected to severe torture, then they both die

Hugo's version is undoubtedly more tragic. The lover Frollo inflicts a terrible wound on the handsome Phoebus during his date with Esmeralda. Quasimodo then throws Frollo off the roof of Notre Dame. Disney softened the ending of the story. IN classical history there was a beautiful gypsy hanged on the gallows.




At the end of the story, the unfortunate hunchback goes to the crypt where the corpses of executed criminals are buried. Having found his beloved among the rotting bodies, Quasimodo hugs her corpse. And after some time, people entering the crypt see two skeletons intertwined in a tight embrace.

10 Pocahontas Was Raped And Murdered

In the original version: Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped and killed

The Disney film about the beautiful Indian girl Pocahontas was based on the notes of English travelers. The history covers the period of early colonization. The action takes place in the Virginia Colony.




When Pocahontas was very young, she was kidnapped by the British for ransom. The girl was raped and her husband was killed. She was then baptized and given a new name, Rebecca.

To hide the pregnancy that occurred after the rape, Pocahontas is married to John Rolf. Together with her new family, the savage leaves for England, where familiar things become a curiosity for her.

After two years, the Rolfs decided to return to Virginia. On the eve of departure, Pocahontos becomes ill and vomits violently. Suffering from terrible convulsions, the girl dies. Presumably, Pocahontas died of tuberculosis or pneumonia. She was only 22 years old.




However, according to another version, Pocahontas became aware of the plans of the English government to destroy the indigenous Indian tribes. The British intended to take the land from the Pacahontas people.

Fearing that Pocahontas might reveal the Indians' political strategies, the British planned her poisoning. Pocahontas had to die before returning to her homeland and telling what she knew.

Translator Natalya Zakalyk

As many people already know, some of the animated Disney musicals that little kids have loved and adored watching for the last 80 years actually have very gruesome original versions that include rape, cannibalism, torture and other very unpleasant events. Some people believe that Disney improved the original stories, making them more accessible and enjoyable to the general public, while others believe that he remade them, or at least ruined them so much that they became unrecognizable.

Here are ten examples of some lesser known Disney originals. Some of them have an original history that many people don't even know, while others have revealed origins that have not previously been discussed in such detail on the Internet.

Regardless of your personal opinion on these shocking originals and their popular Disney versions, I hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I enjoyed translating it.

10. Pinocchio: Corpses and Murders

In original: Pinocchio kills the Cricket, the Fairy comes, says "Corpse" and Pinocchio dies

In the very first version of Pinocchio, the doll is punished with death for being a naughty boy. Pinocchio cruelly teases Gipetto and runs away, Gipetto pursues him, but is caught by a policeman who throws the old man in prison, believing that he was mocking the doll. When Pinocchio returns to Gipetto's house, he meets a hundred-year-old cricket who tells him that naughty boys turn into donkeys. Pinocchio throws a hammer at him and kills him.

Pinocchio ends with him almost being burned in a fire along with the wood, after which he bites off the paws of an evil cat and meets a beautiful fairy with blue hair, who tells him that she is dead and is waiting for people to take her body away. Pinocchio then hangs the mutilated cat and her fox companion from a tree, and they watch Pinocchio suffocate and die. End.

The editors were not too happy with this ending, so the author added a second part to the story. Here Pinocchio is rescued by a beautiful dead fairy and they begin to live together, but he begins to misbehave again and eventually turns into a donkey. He is sold to the circus, where he goes without much desire.

Later, Pinocchio is brought to a musician who wants to kill him, remove his skin and use it for a drum. The musician ties a stone around the donkey's neck and lowers it into the ocean to drown it. He drowns, the fish gnaws his flesh to the bones, and only the wooden frame of the doll remains. Pinocchio swims away, but is immediately swallowed by a giant shark, in whose stomach he finds Gipetto sitting at a table and trying to eat a live fish that peeks out of his mouth. After they escape, Pinocchio takes charge of Gipetto. Ultimately, as a reward for being a good boy, taking care of his father and working hard, Pinocchio turns into a real boy.

9. Dismemberment in Aladdin

In original: Kassim gets injured

Who is Kassim, you ask? Cassim is Aladdin's long-lost father who appears in the third Disney direct-to-video film, Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Cassim is the head of the notorious Forty Thieves gang, but he puts aside his villainous deeds for a while in order to attend the wedding of Aladdin and Jasmine. As you can see, some ideas here were taken from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a fairy tale from 1001 Nights.

In the original version, Ali Baba learns the secret words that help enter and exit the secret magical treasury of the forty thieves. Ali Baba tells these words to brother Cassim, who greedily rushes to the treasure and takes as much gold as he can carry. However, from excessive excitement, he forgets magic phrases, allowing you to leave the cave. The thieves return, find Cassim and kill him. They divide his corpse into four parts and place the severed limbs on the outside of the entrance to their cave as a warning to future robbers.

When Ali Baba discovers an eerie warning sign, he collects his brother's body parts and takes them home. He asks the slave, Marjane, to make it as if Cassim died of natural causes. Marjane finds a professional tailor who skillfully sews the parts of Kassim's corpse into one whole. The thieves find the house where Ali Baba lives, but the slave deceives them, and as a result they kill two of their comrades on their own, and she kills the rest by pouring boiling oil into the barrels where they are hiding. Only their leader remains alive and Marjane inflicts a fatal blow on him with a dagger during dinner at Ali Baba's house. Now only one faithful slave remains!

8. Bloodthirsty Cinderella

In original: Cinderella kills her stepmother

By now, most of us knew about the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, where the prince spreads tar on the steps of the palace in the hope that Cinderella will get stuck in it when she tries to escape. However, his plan fails; only her shoe remains stuck in the resin. Her sisters, who are "beautiful but with black hearts," both tried to trick the prince into marrying them. One sister cuts off hers thumb in order to put on the shoe, the other one cuts off its heel. Their deception is exposed when Cinderella's magical birds point out to the prince the blood visible on the stockings. They peck out the sisters' eyes for their cruelty and deceit. While this is an excellent version of Cinderella, it is nowhere near the story that the Disney film was based on.

Disney's Cinderella was based on a very boring fairy tale by Charles Perrault, published in 1697. Perrault's version plays out almost exactly like the Disney version. However, both versions of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm contain elements from Cinderella's Cat, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile. Although Basile's tale is a bit corny, it is worth noting that in this version, Cinderella tells a secret to the seemingly good Governess about her stepmother's cruelty. The governess tells Cinderella that in order to fix her problems she will need to kill her stepmother by hitting the lid of a large wooden chest on her stepmother's throat, which will break her neck.

Then Cinderella must convince her father to marry the governess. Cinderella kills her stepmother and the marriage is successfully concluded. However, it turns out that the Governess has been hiding seven beautiful daughters of her own, and when she introduces them, Cinderella's father loses interest in his own daughter. They all begin to mistreat Cinderella, mocking her and showering her with abuse. She is sent to the kitchen to work as a servant (from now on she gets the name "Cinderella Cat". Previously, her name was Zezolla). The rest of the story is almost the same as the traditional Cinderella story. In fact, this story has a happy ending in any version. However, it's nice to know that Cinderella wasn't always as innocent as we used to think.

7. Sleeping Beauty Sleeps Among the Corpses

In original: Sleeping Beauty falls asleep among hundreds of rotting corpses stuck among the thorny thickets of heather

In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Thorn Rose", the witch curses the little princess, saying that at the age of fifteen she will pierce her finger with a spindle and fall dead. Another witch weakens the curse so that, instead of dying, the princess will sleep for a hundred years. Of course, at the age of fifteen, the girl pricks her finger and falls into a dead sleep, which quickly spreads throughout her kingdom until even the flies on the wall fall into oblivion. Around the castle there is a hedge of wild roses, and for many years hundreds of young people from distant lands have been trying to climb through the thorny bushes to get a close-up look at the sleeping princess.

However, the bushes are so dense that young people get caught in the thorny trap and die a slow, gruesome death. Exactly one hundred years later, a prince rides by, and the thorns turn into flowers and open the way for him, because the curse is finally over. The Prince finds Sleeping Beauty and kisses her, causing her to awaken.

The Brothers Grimm took their inspiration for "The Thorn Rose" from the fairy tale "The Sun, the Moon and the Thalia" written by Giambattista Basile. In this tale, the king rapes the princess while she sleeps. She gets pregnant and gives birth to twins. One of the babies takes out the enchanted shard under her fingernail and she awakens. The queen tries to mercilessly kill the children and feed them to their father, and also wants to burn Talia alive, but the king manages to solve all the problems in time, the queen burns instead of Talia, and they all live happily ever after.

6. The Little Mermaid and her dirty deeds

In original: The little mermaid kills the prince

In the Hans Christian Andersen story that Disney based his films on, the Mermaid's tongue was cut out. She must live in terrible pain and her legs will bleed continuously, causing the prince to marry someone else. The Little Mermaid has a choice, she can kill the prince and turn back into a mermaid or throw herself into the ocean and die. Not having decided to kill the prince, she commits suicide.

Although Andersen's The Little Mermaid is an original, he took inspiration from a fairy tale by Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet called "Ondine". In it, a knight marries a mermaid and she receives a human soul. Ondine's relatives, mischievous and quite angry at times, begin to complicate this marriage. It doesn’t even help that Ondine allows her husband’s ex-girlfriend Bertida, who is also her half-sister, to live with them in the castle. The knight falls in love with Bertida, and they both begin to treat Ondine badly, which greatly angers her uncle, the strongest merman.

Ondine commits suicide by throwing herself into a raging river to save her husband and Bertis from her uncle's wrath. She loses her human soul and becomes a mermaid again. The knight believes that she is dead and marries Bertida, but this is considered illicit if he was previously married to a mermaid. Ondine is forced, according to their laws, to return in the form of a mermaid and kill her ex-husband! After he is buried, a small stream appears around his grave, thus Ondine and the knight remain together forever, even after death.

5. Slave Snow White

In original: Snow White was tortured and made a slave

In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Snow White, the evil queen orders the huntsman to bring back Snow White's lungs and liver as proof of the princess's death. The hunter returns with the pig's entrails and the Queen, believing them to be Snow White's liver and lungs, greedily devours the shiny organs.

The Queen tries to kill Snow White three times: the first time she tightens her corset so tightly that she loses consciousness. The second time she combs her hair with a poisonous comb, which makes her fall asleep, the dwarves pull out the comb and she awakens. Finally, the queen poisons the apple, which Snow White eats and undoubtedly dies. The dwarves place her corpse in a glass coffin, where a passing Prince finds her and decides to take her home with him. As the coffin moves, a piece of apple falls out of the throat and Snow White wakes up. At the wedding, the queen is forced to put on shoes made of hot iron and dance until she dies.

The Grimms got the idea for their Snow White tale from a story called "The Young Slave," written by Giambattista Basile in 1634. In this story, a fairy curses a child to die in his seventh year. When the girl turns seven, her mother combs her hair and the comb gets stuck in the girl's skull, apparently killing her. The mother places the girl's body in seven crystal coffins, stacked one inside the other, and locks her in one of the rooms of the castle. The mother eventually dies of grief, and entrusts the key to that room to her brother, telling him never to open the door. The brother's wife takes the key, opens the door, and finds a beautiful young woman inside a glass coffin (the girl continues to grow while she sleeps).

The wife thinks that her husband is keeping the girl in a locked room in order to have sex with her, so he pulls her hair, which dislodges the comb and breaks the spell. A woman cuts off a girl's hair and beats her with it until she bleeds. Then she makes the girl a slave and beats her daily, making her eyes black and her mouth so bloody as if she had “ate enough raw pigeons.” A young girl decides to commit suicide, but as she sharpens her blade, she tells her story to a doll. Her uncle overhears the story and the intrigue is revealed. He divorces his wife, provides treatment for his niece, and then marries her to a rich man.

4. Self-immolation of Hercules

In original: Hercules burned himself alive

Zeus, the god of the sky, disguises himself as a man named Amphitryon. Why? So Zeus was able to have sex with Alcmene, the hot wife of Amphitryon! After Zeus rapes Alcmene, she becomes pregnant. The real Amphitryon has sex with Alcmene that same night, and also impregnates her and turns out that she is pregnant with two babies and from different fathers! (This, by the way, is physically quite possible). One of the twins (the son of Zeus) is Hercules (in the original spelling, the name literally meant “Glory of Hera.” He was named that way mostly to simply annoy Hera).

When Hercules grows up, he becomes a great warrior and marries the beautiful princess Megara. They will have two beautiful children, whom Hercules will then kill when Hera sends him temporarily mad. Some mythologists say that Hercules also killed Megara, others say that he gave her Iolaus, who was not only his nephew, but also his young lover! (Hercules was a symbol of sexual prowess who had affairs with several men and women.)

Later, when the centaur Nessus tries to rape Hercules' fourth wife Deianira, he shoots him with poisoned arrows containing the blood of Hydra. As he dies, Nessus tells Deianira that his spilled blood and sperm can be collected and used as a love potion. Some time later, when Dejanira begins to suspect Hercules of infidelity, she applies a potion to the sacrificial tunic that her husband is wearing.

The Hydra's poison (which got into Nessus's blood from the poisoned arrow that pierced him) begins to bake Hercules' skin and he rips off his shirt, but his skin comes off with it, exposing his bones. In horror, Deianira hangs herself. To complete his agony, Hercules builds a funeral pyre and his friend Philoctetes lights the fire. Hercules burns himself alive, but instead of dying, after his human flesh is burned, an immortal part of his body appears and Hercules returns to Olympus as an immortal, reconciles with Hera and presumably lives happily ever after.

3. The Fox and the Death of the Hunting Dog

In original: The Fox and the Hunting Dog Die a Gruesome Death

Copper hates Chief, the young, fast hunting dog who takes Copper's place in the pack. Chief saves their Master from a bear during a hunt, Copper hates him and is jealous of him while growing and becoming stronger. The owner showers Chief with praise, but completely ignores Copper, who cowered in fear during the bear attack. Tod is a fox who loves to tease chained dogs and make them go berserk. One day, Chief breaks his chain and runs after Tod. He leads the dog onto the railway track, Chief gets hit by a train and dies. The owner vows revenge and trains Copper to ignore everyone else except Toad the fox.

Tod meets an old fox and they cause mayhem together, but Master and Copper find the den and gas the foxes' baby. The Fox then walks into a trap with her feet and is killed. Then Tod meets another fox, and they have even more children, but the Master again kills his family. One winter there is an outbreak of rabies among foxes that feed on carrion. One of the infected animals attacks a group of human children and the Master releases poison to try to kill as many foxes as possible. A human child eats poison and dies.

In the aftermath, Tod escapes many more attempts on his life, but one day Copper attacks him so hard that he falls dead from exhaustion. Copper himself almost died, but the Master nurses him back to health, and he becomes healthy again. They both enjoy their renewed popularity for a while, but the Master starts drinking again and ends up in a nursing home. The owner takes the gun and kills Copper, although he himself cries that he did it. End. Phew...

2. Horror and death in The Hunchback

In original: Quasimodo is tortured, Esmeralda is tortured and then everyone dies

Frollo does not try to get rid of the disfigured child by throwing him into a well, as shown in the Disney film. In Victor Hugo's secret original, Frollo actually saves a child from being burned alive by four women who thought he was a demon. Frollo adopts the child and names him Quasimodo. As a result, Frollo goes crazy with a terrible desire to take possession of a beautiful fifteen-year-old gypsy named Esmeralda, and asks Quasimodo to kidnap her.

Quasimodo is caught in the act and arrested by the handsome soldier Phoebus, with whom Esmeralda falls in love. Quasimodo is publicly tortured and left tied in a pillory. Phoebus (who is already married but really likes to go out) arranges a "private meeting" between him and Esmeralda, but Frollo pays Phoebus to let him hide in the shadows and watch them. Esmeralda, overcome by lust, renounces her vow of chastity in favor of Phoebus, who immediately gets down to business. Frollo, overcome with jealousy, emerges from the shadows, stabs Phoebus in the back, and runs off into the night. Esmeralda is accused of attempted murder, tortured in an underground dungeon for giving false testimony, and sentenced to hang.

Quasimodo saves her as she goes to the gallows and hides her in Notre Dame, where Frollo tries to rape her. Here Quasimodo intervenes again, Frollo abandons Esmeralda and the two have a brief and bloody battle, during which Frollo tells her that he will save her if she “gives him love.” She refuses and he hands her over to the military. Frollo watches Esmeralda's execution, during which she laughs hysterically and then writhes in a noose. Quasimodo then throws Frollo off the roof of Notre Dame.

After this, Quasimodo goes to the crypt, where the corpses of executed criminals are always left to rot, and hugs Esmeralda's decaying corpse. In the end, their two skeletons are found, entwined in an eternal embrace.

1. Pocahontas was raped and killed

In original: Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped and killed

Two Disney films about beautiful, half-naked Indian beauties, based on carefully doctored and falsified English records of early history Colony of Virginia. Pocahontas was only about ten years old when Captain Smith first made contact with the Powhatan tribe. It is true that he was captured by the tribe, but in his original account Smith says that he was treated very kindly. And many years later, when the name Pocahontas became known in England, it was not that she saved him from execution. He came up with it all himself.

When Pocahontas was seventeen years old, she was captured by the British for ransom. Her husband, Kokoum, was killed, and Pocahontas was raped several times and, naturally, became pregnant. She was forcibly converted to Christianity, baptized as Rebecca, and quickly married an English tobacco farmer named John Rolfe to make the pregnancy legal. In 1615, the Rolfe family traveled to England, where Pocahontas sharply criticized the corset and appeared before the public as "a symbol of the tamed savages of Virginia."

After two years in England, the Rolfs decide to return home to Virginia when Pocahontas suddenly begins to violently vomit after dinner and convulse. Before she even had time to sail along the Thames River, Pocahontas died, horribly and painfully. English historical records are "unsure of the cause of her death." It is believed that she may have contracted pneumonia, tuberculosis or even smallpox. However, in their book, The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of the Story, Linwood Castalow and Angela L. Daniel argue that during her stay in England, Pocahontas learned of the English government's intentions to destroy the indigenous tribes and forcibly take their lands. Fearing that Pocahontas might reveal political strategies, her murder was quickly planned and she was poisoned before she could get home and report what she had learned. Pocahontas was only twenty-two years old when she died.

Copyright site © - Natalya Zakalyk

Girls, if after reading this you experienced a shock, then quickly relieve stress in a fashion store - http://shopnow.com.ua. Maybe a Pocahontas costume... Just kidding...

P.S. My name is Alexander. This is my personal, independent project. I am very glad if you liked the article. Want to help the site? Just look at the advertisement below for what you were recently looking for.

Copyright site © - This news belongs to the site, and is the intellectual property of the blog, is protected by copyright law and cannot be used anywhere without an active link to the source. Read more - "about Authorship"

Is this what you were looking for? Perhaps this is something you couldn’t find for so long?


Her name was actually Freya

Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, the homeland of the ancient Vikings, lie far to the north, and Viking myths were filled with icy imagery: vast white worlds inhabited by cold giants with hearts of ice. However, on the other hand, Asgard, the home of the gods in Viking mythology, has always been warm. The Vikings were a muscular, strong tribe and had gods to match. Huge, bearded Odin was the forefather of an ever-seething, brawling family, whose members included the mighty Thor, whose hammer caused thunder on earth, the cunning Loki, who considered the murder of his own brother a wonderful joke, and several big-boned goddesses who wore horned helmets and braided their hair in thick braids. , no less strong and resilient than male gods. The most beautiful of all was the golden-haired Freya, the northern goddess of love.

Freya had everything a girl could dream of: a beautiful figure, a regal wardrobe, which included a golden corset, as well as several of the most advanced means of transportation for those times. She traveled through the sky in a carriage pulled by two giant cats. When Freya rushed at the head of the Valkyries, female warriors devoted to her, they all flew through the air on huge white winged horses. They collected slain heroes from the battlefields and carried them across the rainbow bridge to Asgard. Since the Vikings loved fighting more than anything else, the goddess had to make such trips almost every day.

Most of the fallen heroes found eternal shelter in Valhalla - the palace of Odin, but Freya selected the most best warriors for your own palace in the sky-high heights. There they spent time in a huge hall, drank mead from golden horns, sang battle songs in drunken voices and boasted to each other about their exploits. These heroes were not very smart, but they were muscular and fair-haired. And Freyja, being the goddess of love, often chose the least drunk of all to share the night with her on a magnificent four-poster bed, decorated with a bearskin.

Freya had everything, there was only one thing missing - the legendary diamond necklace, which was called Brisingamen and was considered the most beautiful necklace in the whole world. She had never seen Brisingamen because it was owned by dwarves who lived deep underground. However, Freya really wanted to take possession of it.

The Brisingamen necklace became Freya's obsession. Every evening she sat down in front of the mirror and began trying on various jewelry. Looking at the diamond necklace, she thought with a sigh: “It is not bright enough for my snow-white neck. Only one necklace in the world can be worthy of my neck.” And she put the jewelry aside.

Finally she made a decision. “Since Brisingamen does not come into my hands,” she swore, “I will go after him myself.”

Freya braided her golden hair into two long braids that reached her knees, threw a gray cape over a golden corset, took a knotty oak staff in her hands and left Folkvand ( motherland) without looking back. Freya walked across the rainbow bridge that separated Asgard from the earth in skillfully embroidered shoes. She went to the hole in the western part of the Earth, went down and walked through the darkness. Under the ground it was dark and damp, but Freya was warmed by inner warmth and illuminated her path with inner light. She reached dark tunnels in which lived creatures that had never seen sunlight.

Finally, Freya noticed faint reflections of fire in the darkness, which gradually became brighter. Freya turned the corner and found herself at the entrance to a huge cave in the very heart of the Earth. The walls around sparkled with veins of gold and precious stones. Little men, wrinkled and brown like tree roots, dug for treasure with tiny picks. Other little men forged sparkling weapons on tiny anvils, and there were those who sat at working machines with tiny hammers and made magnificently beautiful brooches, rings and even royal crowns. High under the very arches of the cave, illuminating it like the sun illuminates the Earth, the famous necklace of Brisingamen hovered.

Freya held her breath. Everything she heard about the wonderful necklace turned out to be true. It was made of the purest gold and decorated with large, perfectly shaped diamonds! Freya reached for the necklace - but it rose even higher, out of her reach.

The dwarves stopped what they were doing and turned their heads towards Freya. “Wow, we have a guest here,” one said. The gnomes' voices were hoarse and rattling, as if they had not had to speak for a long time. “Uh-oh, she’s pretty,” squeaked the second one. “She’s glowing,” muttered a third. “I wish I could fail if it’s not the goddess Freya.”

Freya introduced herself. “I have come for your Brisingamen necklace. Don’t you think that it is uselessly dimming in this cave, when it should be shining more on my divine neck?” With these words, she again extended her hand to the necklace, but this time it floated to the side, so that Freya could not reach it. “For some reason I can’t catch him,” Freya said. -Will you help me?

The dwarves laughed their hoarse, creaking laugh. “Brisingamen will come down only on our orders. If we give you the necklace, what will you give us in return?”

I will send to you the bravest and finest of my warriors.

The dwarves laughed again. “Why do we need your warriors? They are too clumsy; They’ll only get in the way.”

OK then. I am the goddess of the earth. I could send you flowers and fruits.

Flowers will wither in the dark and fruits will rot.

Freya was in despair. The necklace must belong to her! “What do you want?”

The little people shouted in unison: “You! We want you! You are the most important beauty in the world!” They stared lustfully at the goddess. “Come live with us. Live with us. We hope you understand what we mean."

Freya understood this perfectly. She looked at the dwarves. They were stained with mud and stone dust and as ugly as disgusting toads. Then she glanced under the arches of the cave, at Brisingamen, shining like the sun. She looked again at the dwarves and again at Brisingamen. Finally she sighed.

Okay, I agree. But you all must wash yourself.

The little gnomes grumbled, but still washed themselves. And after they washed off the layers of dirt, Freya decided that freaks weren't so ugly after all. In their own way they turned out to be very good.

In general, Freya spent every night with a new gnome, and how grateful they were all to her! They fed her delicious food from golden dishes and treated her to dark wine from crystal goblets. They composed songs about her beauty, showered her with rubies and emeralds, and finally, one fine day, one of the dwarves stretched out his little hand, and Brisingamen began to slowly descend until he lay on his calloused palm. Freya knelt down and the dwarf clasped the sparkling necklace around her lily-colored neck. His look was a little sad, but he said: “An agreement is an agreement.”

Freya hugged each of the dwarves goodbye - during this time she managed to sincerely love them - and climbed back to Earth, and then returned to her castle in Asgard, to her husband. Didn't I say that Freya had a husband? Yes, there was, although judging by her behavior, it was not easy to guess about it. Freya's husband was named Odur, and he was the god of the Sun. But when Freya opened the doors to the castle and called: “Darling, where are you? I'm back!”, she found that the castle was empty. Odur left her a note:

Freya, you slut!

I can still stand war heroes. After all, they are courageous and attractive, and if I liked boys, I myself would not be able to resist such a temptation. But gnomes are too much! Did you think that I wouldn't find out anything? This is the last straw and I'm leaving. Have fun further.

Your inconsolable husband, Odur.

Freya sobbed a little into her thin lace handkerchief, because Odur was a good husband, and very understanding at that, and now he’s gone. But then she looked at herself in the mirror. A fabulously beautiful necklace sparkled and shimmered on her neck. She wiped her eyes and smiled at her reflection. “Well, God bless him! - she thought. “Husbands come and go, but diamonds are always in price.”

How two millennia turned a spoiled lady into an innocent girl

If you haven't already guessed it yourself, I'll tell you that the fairy tale about the beautiful girl who lived with the little people was repeated for centuries until a significantly changed and ennobled version was finally written down by the Brothers Grimm. The fairy tale was called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."


Surely everyone knows the story Snow White from stories Brothers Grimm or a Walt Disney cartoon. The evil stepmother was jealous of the beauty of her young stepdaughter and poisoned her with a poisonous apple. But true love's kiss broke the spell, and then everyone lived happily ever after. But, as you know, there is some truth in every fairy tale. Some historians claim that they can tell the story of the real Snow White.




In 1994, German historian Eckhard Sander ( Eckhard Sander) published his research entitled "Snow White: Myth or Reality?" (Schneewittchen: Märchen oder Wahrheit?), in which he claimed to have found an account in the archives of the Brothers Grimm that shed light on the origin of the real-life Snow White.

We are talking about the young Countess Margarethe von Waldeck ( Margaretha von Waldeck), who lived in the 15th century in the city of Bad Wildungen. The girl really had a stepmother (but not an evil one), and rumors about her beauty went far beyond the county.



At the age of 16, the girl moved to Brussels, where a few years later she fell in love with the future King of Spain, Philip II. The young man reciprocated her feelings. But the relatives of the future monarch were not satisfied with such a match, and the countess soon died.

Zander believes she was poisoned, making the situation look like a mysterious illness. This is evidenced by the will that the Countess wrote shortly before her death. The handwriting shows that Margaret had a tremor, which is typical for poisoned people.



The image of the Seven Dwarfs was also strongly associated with the von Waldeck family. Margaret's father owned several copper mines where children worked. Due to malnutrition and harsh working conditions, many of them died, but those who survived looked like twisted dwarfs with deformed limbs.



Regarding the poison apple, Zander also found parallels to this event reflected in the history of the city of Bad Wildungen. It is about an old man who gave poisoned apples to children who, in his opinion, were stealing fruit from his garden.



The story of the beautiful countess was passed on from mouth to mouth for several centuries, acquiring all sorts of details. And in 1812, the Brothers Grimm included the story of Snow White in their collection of fairy tales based on German folk tales.
Modern artists very often transfer fairy-tale stories into modern realities and try to imagine what follows the phrase “they lived happily ever after.” Dina Goldstein published a very interesting project called