*I can explain the first entry about Cinderalla's Sisters:* The reason why Cinderella's sisters cut off parts of their feet in order to fit into the glass slipper (One cuts off her heel, the other one or more of her toes) is because the writer was communicating the fact that woman will go to extremes in order to look beautiful. I'm guessing the prince "cutting out their eyes" is supposed to symbolize that beauty is not always _eye-candy_ what we see on the outside. Their is outer beauty no doubt! But inner beauty is more important-something Cinderella's sisters did not possess.
Fairy tales don't really have writers. The Grimm brothers or Perrault simply put down on paper a definitive form from the multiple oral ones that were in circulation. And, if I may, I think you're looking at this from a modern superficial standpoint. You gotta take into consideration the context when these fairy tales appeared and how it influenced the meaning of the symbols in them.
Cris05 I thought about what you said yesterday. I didn't know all fairy tales were not written down before the Brother's Grimm or Perrault (although that's hard to believe). I should have said "... the creator(s) was..." What do you say was the meaning of the symbols I talked about, Cinderalla's sisters cutting off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper? I think mine is an accurate interpretation because it is timeless.
Many historical fairy tales have writters. Yes, such as Grimms were collectors, but for example Beauty and the Beast is well known story written by Gabrielle Vileneu (there are some letters missing, sorry, don´t know french really).
The beauty and the beast is NOT in the collection of the brothers Grimm fairy tales. In fact, none of their stories have anything to do with love. The youngest princes ( obviously the useless ones as they don't inherit any wealth), the simple men and whoever is the main character does a task and gets half a kingdom and a princess. Emotions like love are never in the game, not even love for the children. Or how would you explain that the mother of Rapunzel, craving a certain salad growing in her neighbours garden during her pregnancy and which her husband steals at night for her, agrees to give the baby to that neighbour once they are caught stealing?
I thought the stepsisters are ugly, only beautified on the lavish look-dos. in Shrek 2 the Cinderella stepsister is a big guy with legs hair dressing as girl to describe how not beautiful it is. Cinderella is the beauty one inside and outside, only less furnishing and made deprived
Rapunzel actually fell pregnant by the prince, and they planned to escape, but one day when the adoptive mother was with Rapunzel, Rapunzel had requested for new dresses as her current ones were too small. The adoptive mother realised this was because she was with child, and grew angry as she found out about the prince. Like said, Rapunzel was cast into a desert, and the prince does fall into thorns and gets blinded, except that Rapunzel gives birth to twins while in the desert. The prince, wandering the earth blind, comes upon Rapunzel. She recognises him and weeps because she has found him but also because he is blind. Her tears fall onto his eyes as she hold him, and his eyes are healed. My English might not be so good, so sorry if there are mistakes
One that I had in a children book that terrified me was Bluebeard. A man with a Bluebeard marries a young woman. He gives her the keys to all the rooms including a key on a red string. He tells her open any door you like but don't open the door that this key opens or you will die. She opens the door to discover the bodies of his dead wives. The key then has a blood stain that refuses to come off. He asks her where the key was and she says I lost it. He knows the truth and says now you will join them. She begged him to spare her but he refuses he allows her to pray right before he is going to kill her her brothers show up and kill him. The pictures were terrifying.
In another version it's an evil sorcerer who kidnaps three sisters in turn. The first two fall into the trap and he chops them up and puts them in a blood bath. It is an egg, not a key, that gives them away by getting bloodstained. The sorcerer trapped them by telling them to take their eggs everywhere. But the third sister avoids the trap by not carrying her egg around. And she rescues her sisters by putting them back together and they all escape.
Oh please, ladies and gentlemen, you're childhood is not ruined or you don't turn out to be a complete lunatic when you listen to the true versions of the fairy tales. in germany they are told exactly this way, almost every child has heard them that way. and what you feel, when the witch is dying in the glowing hot iron shoes is not horror but comfort. comfort that the evil has been destroyed and punished. the world is alright again and all your fear is gone. for a child, nothing horrible about that.
Well the world was a lot smaller then. You lived in your little village, everyone is tucked in safe in their cottage, and life was a lot more realist then. But you DID not want kids going into the woods. Forget slender man there were real predators out there. But I get what your saying. Even Harry Potter, a lot of people die. Kids can handle a lot more than they get credit for.
arielbenitez your observation might carry more weight than you think. The thing that is common amongst most of these stories is complete self righteousness of the protagonists and utter lack of empathy towards the “evil” antagonists. Very similar to the holocaust shit. “Oh she’s a self-centered bitch? Pluck her eyes out and let her live out her life as a beggar in the slums.” “Oh she tried to kill Snow White a couple of times? Let’s see her dance in red-hot iron shoes.” But then again, it may be more of a medieval thing than a German thing.
This is just an interpretation of the story and not what the text says.We, grown-ups, assume the wolf is a symbol of a raper.In the same way we could assume the wolf is a human organ seller, hahaha (not so much), having eaten the girl's flesh.
+Matina TheArtOfRolling I once heard that the Master of the Macabre, Vincent Price once retold Little Red Riding Hood as a werewolf story. There wasn't a dry fly in the house! (EVIL LAUGHTER)
Few things were wrong or just left out. The pied piper was literally an event that happend in the germany toen called hamlin. They had a rat problem. A man said he would rid them of the rats but the town couldn't pay him the amount he wanted so he literally drowned the childern in the water. This town never saw there childern again thenpied piper did leave 3 childern with disablities. Still to this day music is banned in some streets. Some feel this fairy tale is really about the plague killing childern. Also red riding was made to tell childern not to go into the woods or stay on the path because in middle ages misfits,murders, pedos, and theifts lived in the woods. So childern were supposed to avoid that. In the 1st telling of red riding hood the wolf doesn't just eat granny he fixes the meat of granny in a pot and makes red riding hood eat it. She thinks its beef but really its granny so the wolf is tricking her into cannibalism. And the main moral to red riding hood is "sweetest tongue means sharpest tooth." So this means men will try to sweet talk young girls before harming them.
The brothers grimm only wrote the story down. Changed it so it would be appropriate for kids and they could get more money. They never made the story....
@@d.chaudry3708 You act like they were unimportant figures in history, only did it for the money and don't deserve the credit. They did more than Perrault ever were able to do
In the version of Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm, the stepsisters are described as "Fair and beautiful of face, but vile of heart." The slipper is also different, in the known version by Perrault, the slipper is glass, but in this one it's made out of gold. There was also no fairy godmother, the dresses that she wore were given to her by the two doves living in the tree on her mother's grave. After the self-mutilation and attempted deceit of the stepsisters, the doves later blind them. Also, I don't know the whole story of this one, but my friend went on a graduation trip to Europe, and one of the places they went to was Notre Dame. She took pictures of the many, many gargoyles that decorate the outside, and on a far corner is a little statue of the hunchback as a child. She was told that the legend says that no one knows why, or who made the statue of the strange child, and that part of the story is that his only friends were the many gargoyles around him, inspired by the way that he is hidden in the back like that. His origins are still a mystery to this day. Cool, huh?
Not just break in in a unknown place, but help yourself with whatever you like. Me thinks fuvking goldilocks deserves to be torn apart after that. But today, so many people are still just as stupid as that, and then lament about their bad luck. I'd say they had it coming.
Interesting video. Many of the old fairy tales weren't treated as tales for children in the time when they were created, but rather as stories for adults, similar to the way we treat fantasy today. When modern culture started treating them as children stories, they had to be get rid of the adult elements.
many like Anderson were made to scare children into behaving, the red shoes and the girl that trod in a load are tortured for many years for misbehaving until they die to escape their suffering
Just read The Red Shoes. You might not be okay, but eh! But really, Andersen has the saddest and quite weird fairy tales. Just read The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, The Girl With Matches or anything else from him. Even most remakes are quite sad. But the originals are still the best. Or read Pinocchio. That is a very terrifying story!
Sad but not scary or horrible. Andersen's tales are mostly longer than Grimm's or Perrault's and got deeper, heartwarming meaning to it. The Danish probably need it up there to heat
I also remember reading "The Little Match Girl" as kid, and the story was basically about a poor girl trying to sell match sticks during a cold winter evening, and she was so afraid of not bringing home any money that she dies from the cold that evening trying to keep herself warm with lighting those match sticks one by one... no greater moral or symbolism, no magic that saves her... just a starving poor girl freezing to dead in a winter street on a cold winter evening. story: On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor, young girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is already shivering from cold and early hypothermia, and she is walking barefoot after losing her two large slippers that had belonged to her mother to an impertinent pedestrian.[2] Still, she is too afraid to go home, because her father will beat her for not selling any matches, and also as the many cracks in their shack can't keep out the cold wind. The girl takes shelter in a corner formed by two houses projected further out into street and sits down.[3] The girl lights the matches to warm herself. In their glow she sees several lovely visions, starting with a warm stove, then a luxurious holiday feast where the goose almost jumps out at her, and then a magnificent Christmas tree larger than the one at the rich merchant's house. The girl looks skyward and sees a shooting star; she then remembers her late grandmother saying that such a falling star means someone is dying and is going to Heaven. As she lights the next match, she sees a vision of her grandmother, the only person to have treated her with love and kindness all through her life. To keep the vision of her grandmother alive for as long as she can, the girl lights the entire bundle of matches at once. After running out of matches, the child dies and her grandmother carries her soul to Heaven. The next morning, passers-by find the girl dead in the nook, frozen with a smile on her face, and guess the reason for the burnt-out matches beside her. They feel pity for her, although they had not shown kindness to her before her death. They have no way of knowing about the wonderful visions she saw before her death or how gloriously she is celebrating the New Year in Heaven with her grandmother.[4]
I could be wrong but I think I saw a short animation exactly like the story you just mentioned besides her dad beating her because I’m pretty sure she was homeless in the animation. It really broke my heart:(
Little Match girl (Hans Christian Anderson) she lights the first match to keep warm but she sees a vision of a better "life" so she strikes 2 more matches. The third match shows her grandmother and she lights a dozen more to keep seeing her grandmother. But even after the last match burns, her grandmother stays because she returned to Bring the matchseller "home" to the afterlife
p sure the moral in Goldie Locks is not to break into peoples houses/take things that arent yours. the bears are pretty justified, just as they would be any home invader. and the reason theyr bears and not other people, is because it would be dehumanizing to kill a child- even thoughthe idea is that shes cute enough to get away with anything. Its a play on hubris I think
Actually, Cinderella's stepsisters mangled their feet in the Brothers Grimm's version and they have their eyes chopped by the birds who want to punish them for their evil and greedy nature. In the original version by Charles Perrault, they are just left bitter by Cinderella's wedding. Some versions even said they ask Cinderella for forgiveness and eventually married two noblemen. I admit I have never heard this version of Aladdin before. Red Riding Hood is eaten and digerated with her grandmother in Perrault's version but saved by the hunter in Grimm's version. The Little Mermaid is quite sad as well.
I always knew Goldilocks and The Three Bears as she get torn to shreds, I never heard the one where she escapes. I guess the moral is to not break into other peoples houses
They are meant to be dark, either as cautionary tales for children or because they have a lot of symbolic value they can serve the same purpose as mythology for adults. I read somewhere that the Pied Piper of Hamlyn might have been part inspired by the children's crusade; a medieval campaign to the holy land in which thousands of European children left to march on Jerusalem, never to be seen or heard of again. Was it a genuine cause, or a scam to kidnap children?Also, I would of thought the moral of Goldilocks and the three bears is obvious. Is it not a straight up cautionary tale not to hang out where bears live? Interestingly, unlike a lot of European folk tales, it's exact origins have yet to be pinned down which has left some folklorists to speculate it might extend all the way back to prehistoric times...
Forgot to mention, most of the princess / blood magic / awakening kiss motifs symbolise a young woman's coming of age through mensuration and sexual awakening...
Yeah. I read one where after finding Goldilocks in baby bear’s bed they let her leave. She runs back to her mum, and swears to never ever enter a stranger’s house again. I believe it was a Little Golden Book version of the tale.
Well, for me, the moral of Goldilocks and The Three Bears is this: DO NOT go into someone's property and meddle with things that are not yours, especially without permission.
No no no, the Prince never punished Cinderella's stepsisters. It was her bird friends who sang to him about their trickery and then at Cinderella's wedding, they blinded the stepsisters. The Prince was quite a doofus in this version. Also, the Prince in Snow White received her as a gift from the dwarfs since he begged so hard. The creepy thing is that she's seven years old for most of the story. Aladdin never went like that either..... Rapunzel's Prince eventually finds her in the desert and her tears bring back his sight. They and their children head back to his kingdom to live happily ever after.
Nightmare Tomb The Dwarfs told him that no amount of money could part her body from them so they eventually gave Snow White as a gift out of compassion
Nightmare Tomb I'm going by the Grimm's version, the one most everybody knows. Not Nourie Hadig, not Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, The Young Slave, etc.....I'm going specifically by "Snow White" aka Schneewittchen.
+Timothy Yang the Grimms told that version at first, they then heavily edited everything and eventually published about four different versions of the stories
Haha number 3: "A family of bears living in a house for some reason"." The bears leave their house to do bears things for a while". "I’m not quite sure what the moral of this story is"
my childhood isn't at all ruined, it perfects them more. safe and beautified when you're a kid and grown up discover its dark origin. what surprised me at first was just to find the stories we grew up with weren't the original ones. This is like the 10th video of childhood stuffs dark origin anyway but I'd say this is the first I saw with best animated version picks... thank God no Disney. So is the narrating and caption (switched on) well done. some of the animations are creepy like ( Hansel and Gretel & Red Riding Hood.).. but been yearning to see something like that again and never knew how to describe and it's not something in today's TV... late 90s. Glad to see them again. I remembered really love watching such animations or puppets play like of fairy tales when I was little...that nostalgic feel in it.
Grimm Fairy tales. The Cinderella's step-sisters were not ordered to be blinded. The girls stand on each side of the happy bride and groom. Birds came out and plucked out an eyeball each. THey switched sides, birds came back and plucked the others.
Fun fact: the red riding hood is also a metaphor for rape. Her cape is a metaphor for periods. The more you know (It describes the """"wolf"""" telling her to joking her in the bed, getting undressed and shit, and describes the bed moving and shit.)
The hood is her vagina. Red because she is menstruating... The wolf is an older predatory male, that she may be attracted to anyway. Some folklorists identify this with a grandfather complex...
Aryane Poulin In the version I heard, after eating her grandmother, wolf gets in bed and waits for the girl. She comes into the house and gets in bed with the wolf wearing the gradmother's jammies. She asks why are your eyes so big, grandma? Wolf: To look at you better. Girl: Why are your hands so big? Wolf: To hold you tight, my darling. Girl: Why is your mouth and teeth so big? Wolf: That's to eat you and eats her.
I don't really remember reading a version of the pied Piper of hamelin where the children were returned. the only version I read was when the pied Piper lures them into the river. the moral was to always keep a promise.
I remember reading one version where Rapunzel was taken because when her mother was pregnant she wanted to eat turnips (I think) and the dad would steal them from the witch's garden. and also that the prince would visit Rapunzel, (I think it said that they did the do?), witch found out, prince got blinded, don't remember what happened to Rapunzel, Rapunzel found the prince cried into his eyes which made the thorns fall out and his eyesight was restored (and I think Rapunzel also had children idk?)
Good god, the nostalgia! I owned that cartoon of Rumpelstiltskin on VHS. All I really remember is a messenger bird being attacked by a hawk, Rumpelstiltskin singing a song around a fire (through which he divulges his name) and him stamping his foot and screaming in rage when the lady says his name before bursting into a quick flash of flame smoke, leaving nothing.
Like Peter and the wolf? Many people think it's all Grimms tales, when in fact there are so many different children's stories told in different parts of Europe. The Ones told in the Alpine regions are quite misterious, too.
Little red riding hood has another story too, where The wolf eats the grandmother and little ride. later a woodsmen finds the wolf fat and sleeping with the bodies inside. The woodsmen cuts open the wolf and saves the girl (I don't think the grand mother made it but I can't remember) after he puts rocks in the wolfs stomach and sews him up. The wolf wakes up and dies, I'm sure it's from the rocks ripping through he's stomach but once again I can't remember exactly.
Do I have the only mother who told her child the t original versions of most of these fairy tales? I'm not positive I was told those first but I don't remember a time when I knew the homogenized versions and not the more brutal ones.
'Bears who live in a house for some reason... They leave to do bear things for a while... They return to find the tiny home invader.' I'm crying, that description was too much, I love it
The moral in the story of "Goldilocks and the 3 bears" is simply not to trespass into homes. She used their things and consumed their food without permission for crying out loud.
I don't remember how or where i got a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales as a little girl, but i do remember my mother refusing to read them to me because she thought they were too gory. This was back in the middle 50s.
As a small child, my Mum used to read the original version of these stories to me at bedtime. NO WONDER she ALWAYS ad-libbed the endings. They sound like something out of 'Tales From The Crypt'. I should talk; at one point I read 'Hamlet' as a bedtime story. LOL! Frightening children half to death, kissing their forehead and wishing them "sweet dreams" seems so utterly cruel today. Almost as cruel as the stories themselves. TY so much Eskify. Subscribing now.
That's not how the Goldilocks story goes; the three bears have porridge for breakfast, but it's too hot, so the mother bear says "let's go for a walk whilst the porridge cools down" whilst the bears are gone Goldilocks is passing and decides to go in, there are 3 bowls of porridge and Goldilocks is hungry so she try's them, mammy bears porridge is too hot, and daddy's porridge is too cold, but baby bears porridge is just right, so she ate it, then she wants to sit down, so she looks for a chair, there are 3 chairs, but daddy's chair is too big and mummy's chair is too hard. However, baby bears chair is just right, so she sits in it, but she's to heavy and the chair breaks, but then she's tired, so then she goes for a lie down but daddy's bed is too hard, and mummy's bed is too soft. However baby bears is just right, so she goes to sleep. However, the bears come back whilst Goldilocks is asleep, and find the state that the place is in. Then they scare off Goldilocks. The End
The origin for the Piper is the Children's Crusade in 1212. Also in some of the earlier versions of Cindarella it was not a glass shoe, but a fur slipper. And when the prince went out to try on the fur slipper of every girl in the kingdom they where not talking about any footwear...
If you ever watch the 1972 movie version of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" with Jack Wild and Donovan as the Piper at the end he took the children and never returned them and even creepier is that at the very end of the movie they show subtitles saying that it was the beginning of the infamous Black Death that attacked Europe in the Middle Ages
I am suddenly tempted to tell the originals to my nieces and nephew... if I do though, I'll probably be found in the back alley of my local movie theater with no pulse... xD
In Cinderella "dancing on hot coals" refers to the method of torture called foot roasting, in which a prisoner was bound to a rack, and hot coals pressed against oil or lard smeared feet in order to literally cook their feet on their body.
So two stories from the first edition of the Brothers Grimm collection that got cut from subsequent editions: "How Some Children Played at Slaughtering" and "The Starving Children", both of which are about exactly what they sound like. Have fun, kids!
Should have talked more about Quasimodo. Like how Esmeralda and him WEREN'T saved and were hung at the end of the story on the contrary to the movie. Frolo still dies but it is a story in which the villain wins. Anyone else felt like the clips made the stories THAT MORE disturbing?
Regarding the Pied Piper: The real background for this story was that in the middle ages wandering singers came to towns to tell the people of thriving cities they have visited. In the case of the german town Hameln it is apparent that he was playing a flue and sining to the young adults of the good life they can have elsewhere, hence many of the followed him, causing the older generations to tell stories of a piper stealing their 'kids', even though they went with him of their free will.
I figure the moral of the story of the piper is that people should pay the services of others, or greater loss could come to them. After all, the piper had rid the city of Hameln of the many rats by leading them into a. River and drown them all, and then they thought because he's just one man, that they could get away with framing him? So he did the same with all their children...
My dad always told me made up versions of Goldilocks and I always laughed so hard. Goldilocks in these made up versions would always get killed. What made the original version dark to me when you mentioned it is the films in the background. They are so creepy.
The original Grim's and Anderson's fairy tales are still available in their original forms. Most are not this drastic. The Girmm's of LRRH for example; sees both the granny and the little red riding hood eaten by the wolf, but a hunter does save them by performing some abdominal surgery, the two get out free, and then the wolf's abdomen is filled with stones and sewed tight. Upon waking up he dies from attempting to run with all those stones inside him. Almost all the Rapunzel versions, and the Grimm's one in particular, have a happy ending and are positive though. Prince's sight is restored by Rapunzel's tears when they are reunited, but what is REALLY disturbing about that fairy tale is that in the most versions a 12 years old Rapunzel gets pregnant. Awful.
You left out a few details, there. (At least, from the versions I remember.) Snow White's step mother made several attempts on her life and she ate the heart the Huntsman brought her as supposed proof that Snow was dead. Rapunzel's mother/witch found out that she'd been lying to her when Rapunzel started gaining a bit of weight and the witch realized she was pregnant. In Red Riding Hood, some of the later versions were actually more gruesome, where the wolf tricks her into drinking her grandmother's blood and eating a stew he made from her flesh. He also replaced the rope used to lift the door latch from the outside with granny's entrails. (I still say it's a werewolf, walking on two legs and talking like that.) In Sleeping Beauty, her rapist comes back to "visit" her again only to find her awake with his two children, she actually falls for the very married creep and goes off with him to be his mistress. When his wife finds out, she tries to have Sleeping Beauty and her children killed, planning on having the children baked into a pie to feed to her unfaithful husband as revenge. Lovely stories, aren't they? My guess as to the moral of the Goldilocks story is, "Don't be a thieving, disrespectful little @$$hole because karma is a cold, cruel bitch."
I've heard of the Hansel and Gretel one where they pushed her dead.I have also heard the Cinderella one.Also the Rapunzel one when he is blinded and he finds her.But all of the ones I heard already were told at my school!
I read a version of the pied piper where he takes all the kids into a mountain and traps them in there, I've also read the version of snow white where the prince simply takes her body, the original rapunzel where the prince gets his eyesight back, the version of Cinderella where her sisters are blinded and I think killed?? and a version of rumplestlitskin where rumplestiltskin tears himself in half after the queen figures out his name, and this was all when I was little, no wonder I enjoy darker stories
when I was a kid I had a tape with fairy tales on it, I would listen it before sleeping. The last fairy tale of the tape was 'bluebeard' , a story about a serial killer who killed all his wives and put them in the closet.... good night :p
Some original versions of Red Riding Hood don't end with her just being eaten. The woodsman is actually a werewolf, hence why the wolf could speak, which forces her to eat portions of her slaughtered grandmother before killing her.
