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The ACTUAL Tales Behind These Disney Movies Will Ruin Your Childhood

11/12/2013 08:thirteen am ET Updated Dec 16, 2015

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Zoë Triska Senior Books Editor, The Huffington Put up
After I was a kid, I cherished fairy tales. I cherished the concept of talking animals and courageous girls and boys who overcame merciless care takers. I also actually loved Disney films. All of them had completely happy endings; what's to not love about that? I may watch "Beauty and the Beast" or "Aladdin" each single day.
Once I got a little bit older, I graduated from watching Disney movies to studying the Brothers Grimm. Within the fourth grade, I checked out the "Full Fairy Tales of the Brothers' Grimm" from my school library and by no means returned it (a belated "sorry!" to my grade faculty library!)
I was horrified to seek out that the origins of many of my favorite Disney movies had way more grotesque particulars that Disney utterly not noted.
Below is a collection of horrifying particulars that Disney selected to depart out of all of these e-book/fairy story/play variations. Read on solely if you want to fully damage your childhood.
"Cinderella":
Within the Brothers Grimm model, certainly one of Cinderella's evil stepsisters cuts off her toes, and the opposite her heel so they can both match into the tiny glass slipper. The prince is notified by little doves that there is blood on the shoe, and eventually discovers that the true owner is Cinderella. As soon as the stepsisters notice that they should try to win favor with Cinderella (after all, she shall be queen), they attend her wedding ceremony, only to have their eyes pecked out by birds. Did they deserve it? I will allow you to determine, reader.
SOME OTHER SIDENOTES ON THIS STORY: Cinderella does not have a fairy godmother. Slightly, she crops a tree by her mom's grave and prays below it day by day. She finds her attire to put on to each ball below the tree (there are three in the story, not one like within the movie). She remains to be helped by animals, although particularly birds, not mice. Also, she does not just lose her shoe as a result of she is in a rush. The clever prince covers the steps in pitch to make her persist with them, but she only loses a shoe within the course of.
"The Little Mermaid":
Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale is a 180 from the Disney movie. Some parts align. She does see the prince from afar in his ship, and she does rescue him from drowning and fall in love with him. He doesn't see her. She does visit the ocean witch who takes her tongue in alternate for legs (and she does do it because the little mermaid has an amazing voice).
The deal is identical: The mermaid can solely remain a human if she finds real love's kiss and the prince falls in love with and marries her. Nevertheless, the penalty within the film is simply that Ariel will turn back right into a mermaid if she fails. Within the story, she's going to DIE if she fails. Additionally, while the prince stays a important motivator, the mermaid within the story is also motivated as a result of humans have everlasting souls, and mermaids don't. The Disney movie leaves out that the penalty the mermaid pays for having legs: every single step she takes will feel like she is strolling on sharp shards of glass. At first, it looks as if the plan is working, but then the prince finally ends up marrying one other, a girl he THINKS is the person who saved him (the mermaid can't exactly tell him the truth, since she will be able to't talk). She is instructed that if she KILLS the prince, then she will merely turn back into a mermaid and doesn't should die. She simply cannot do it, although. She throws herself into the ocean, and turns into sea foam (though it should be talked about that she then turns into a 'daughter of the air,' entering a form of purgatory the place she has to do good deeds till she POSSIBLY earns a soul, which can take about 300 years to happen). How's that for a happy ending?
"The Fox and the Hound":
The Fox and the Hound relies on a 1967 novel written by Daniel P. Mannix. Within the e book, the fox is raised by the dog proprietor's/hunter's family, however finally returns to the wild. He often returns to taunt the dogs, and flash his crafty fox skills. One of many canines breaks his chain, and chases him. That dog ends up getting hit by a train. The hunter is devastated, and vows revenge on the fox. He becomes obsessed, but can never catch him (although he does kill the fox's first mate, second mate, and children). Finally, Tod the fox DOES die, but of exhaustion from being chased so much. Copper (the canine from "The Fox and the Hound") is so outdated that he must be shot, and that's the finish of the book. Fairly different from the film, where a puppy and a baby fox become BFFL.
"Beauty and the Beast":
Beauty and the Beast is actually fairly correct, apart from some uninteresting details (like how Belle's father used to be rich, however got himself into major debt). There may be ONE unlucky detail that the story DOES miss. Within the first believed model of the tale (by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve), Belle has two depraved sisters (plenty of depraved members of the family in fairy tales, unfortunately). The Beast allows Belle to travel dwelling, as long as she is only gone for per week. Her sisters are extremely jealous to hear about her luxurious life, and attempt to persuade Belle to stick with them longer than every week, in the hopes that the Beast shall be infuriated with Belle and eat her alive upon her return. Yikes.
"Pinocchio":
Disney's "Pinocchio" got here from Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian traditional "The Adventures of Pinocchio." You would possibly suppose Pinocchio was mischievous in the movie, but he is much more so in the e-book. In the e book, he runs away as soon as he learns to walk. He's found by the police, who imprison Geppetto because they believe Pinocchio was abused. Pinocchio returns house, the place he kills a speaking cricket (sorry, Jiminy) who warns him of the hazards of hedonistic pleasures and obedience. Geppetto is released, and insists that Pinocchio goes to high school. Pinocchio sells his school books for a ticket to the Great Marionette Theatre. He encounters a fox and a cat, who steal his money and unsuccessfully try to grasp him. Luckily, after saving Geppetto from the terrible dogfish (you may understand it better as the gigantic, offended whale from the movie), Pinocchio shapes up and eventually turns into an actual boy (and, you understand, all that stuff about boys getting became donkeys after which offered to evil circuses did end up making it into the movie, surprisingly).
"Sleeping Magnificence":
In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Magnificence story), a king happens to stroll by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. When no one solutions, he climbs up a ladder through a window. He finds the princess, and calls to her, however as she is unconscious, she doesn't get up. Nicely, expensive reader, he carries her to the mattress and rapes her. Then he just leaves. She awakens after she gives beginning as a result of one of her twins sucks the flax (from the spindle) out of her finger. The king comes again, and regardless of him having raped her, they find yourself falling in love? However, another massive problem: the king is still married to another person. His spouse finds out and not only tries to have the twins killed, cooked, and fed to the king, but in addition tries to burn the princess on the stake. Luckily, she is unsuccessful. The king and the princess get married and stay fortunately ever after (even though he raped her). Perrault's adaptation of Basile's up to date adaptation of the story (a a lot tamer version) is probably what was used for the Disney adaptation, as they're much extra related.
"Tangled":
I do know, it is a pretty loose adaptation. However still, I feel it is value mentioning. Within the Brothers Grimm version, Rapunzel will get knocked up by the prince before they escape, and the evil sorceress figures it out. The sorceress cuts off Rapunzel's hair and throws her out into the wilderness. When the prince shows up to see her, the sorceress dangles Rapunzel's cut-off hair to lure him, and tells him he will never see Rapunzel once more. He jumps out the window in despair and is blinded from the thorns under. He wanders around aimlessly (he is blind). Rapunzel provides beginning to twins. He's ultimately guided back to her when he hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight. They return to the prince's kingdom and live happily ever after. (See? A few of these fairy tales actually DO have real completely happy endings, even when girls have babies out of wedlock!)
"The Lion King":
Oh, you didn't know that "The Lion King" was a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"? Effectively, fancy that. A jealous brother kills the king, the son finds out about it and desires revenge. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I imply, Timon and Pumba, distract him. But finally, the son kills the evil jealous brother. Effectively, truly, in Shakespeare's model everybody dies, not just the evil, jealous brother (formerly often called "Claudius").
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs":
Within the Brothers Grimm version, the evil queen stepmother asks a hunter to take Snow White into the forest and kill her (this also occurs in the Disney film). However, in the story, she asks him to additionally convey her again Snow White's lungs and liver. He can't kill Snow White, so brings back a boar's lungs and liver instead. The queen eats the lungs and liver, believing them to be Snow White's. Yuck. Within the ebook, the queen tries twice (unsuccessfully) to kill Snow White. The third time, when the queen provides her the apple (just like in the movie), Snow White faints and cannot be revived. She is placed in a glass coffin. A prince comes and wants to take her away (regardless that she remains to be asleep, which is pretty weird). The dwarves hesitantly enable it, and while she is being carried, the carriers trip, inflicting the poisoned apple to become dislodged from Snow White's throat. She and the prince, after all, get married. The evil queen is invited. As a punishment, she is forced to put on burning-hot iron shoes and dance until she drops dead.
CORRECTION: A earlier version of this article said that in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the evil queen asks the huntsman to bring back Snow White's "coronary heart and liver." It has now been updated to the proper "lungs and liver."
UPDATE: Additional details about the ending of Andersen's "The Mermaid" have been added to this text.
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