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  • 8 Dark Facts You Didn't Know About Fairy Tales

  • In Disney's Snow White, The Queen died from falling off a cliff.

  • But originally, Snow white ordered that her mother wear red hot iron shoes, forged by the dwarves, and forced her to dance until she falls down and dies.

  • Also, the huntsman sent by her jealous mother was to bring back Snow White's lungs and liver, which she wanted to salt, cook, and eat.

  • In Aladdin, wishes had no limits and that there were two items that could grant unlimited wishes.

  • A ring inside the cavern had the same powers as the magic lamp.

  • In the original story of Sleeping Beauty the prince did not announce to his family about his bride. Instead, they waited until they had children.

  • Why? His mother was an ogress that planned to eat the children, but before she could she was eaten alive in a pit full of serpents.

  • In other folk versions of Sleeping Beauty, the prince finds her dead body being carried by little men in the forest.

  • The prince finds her beauty irresistible in death, and demands that they give him the body.

  • Later, one of the servants carry the coffin stumbles, dislodging the apple from her mouth; she wakes up, and then they marry each other as complete strangers, right on the spot.

  • In the Grimm Brothersstory, Frog Prince, he turned into a prince not through a kiss from the princess.

  • It was because she threw him against a wall in utter disgust.

  • Cinderella's stepsisters, beautiful and evil, like their mom, are given a knife by her to cut off parts of their feet so they can fit into the golden slipper.

  • The original story of Beauty and the Beast, Belle, or the beauty, had several siblings.

  • Upon going back home, they told her to stay and to never go back to the beast.

  • But she did, and when she arrived back at the beast’s castle, he was almost dead but recovered upon seeing her.

  • Rumpelstiltskin goes crazy, and in his rage he drove his right foot into the ground where it sank up to his waist.

  • In his rage, he then took his left foot and tore himself into two.

8 Dark Facts You Didn't Know About Fairy Tales

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