Okay, Have you read the version of Cinderella by Brothers Grimm? Not the version by Disney?

Did you know its a tad more grusome? Theres no fairy godmother, either.

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Cinderella

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There really is no Grimm tale that was happy and wholesome..they are usually told to teach children lessons on how not to act.

You know the story of Sleeping Beauty? Not good either, the Prince rapes her while she sleeps. During that time she bores him twins....

Yeah. The Little Mermaid? She ends up dying, and after she's dead, the guy realizes who she was, and what he missed out on...

All of the Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales are morbid. It's all about perspective. Back in the day, they didn't have news reports of kids going missing or young women becoming street walkers, so they had to come up with something to make their children behave. (It must have worked, because we're all here today!)

Yeah Cinderella is one of the more grusome stories. The step sisters chop off their heels and toes to fit into the glass slippers but in the end they end up being crippled by their acts and have their eyes pect out by birds.

The Grimm brothes never actully had written any of their so called stories. They were folktales collected from around the country.

Hans Christian Anderson on the other hand had written all of his fairy tales. Yes The Little Mermaid has very sad ending. After chopping off their hair and giving it to the sea witch her sisters came too late to save her. The little mermaid had turned into sea foam in the end.

Snow white has another interesting twist to it. She doesn't actually wake up from the prince kissing her. While the drarwfs were taking her casket down the hillside all of the rocky terain causes the apple to become dislodged from her throat it flew out and she woke up.

i've never read the original versions of these stories. the only one i knew exactly what happened in it was the little mermaid. i really need to read them someday. i have heard that all the stories by the Grimm brothers were pretty gruesome.

Okay girls to meet your prince lay down and don't move, just fake being dead, they can not resist it. I love these books has anybody read the anoted books by Tuber? Ohh so good. I have only read the grimm one, but hope for the others in the set.

No, I have not heard of that series. I like twisted fairy tails but not ones that are groteques and distrubing. Something more light hearted I think but also not too serious. That's why I like the musical Into the Woods so much. It's just downright hilarious in it's dimentedness. The way the step sisters are depicted is hilarious. Blind with canes in the end with birds flying over head. hahaha

Originally Posted by amyrex2

I love these books has anybody read the anoted books by Tuber? Ohh so good. I have only read the grimm one, but hope for the others in the set.

what are they about?

I've read some of the Grimm's fairy tales. There are two different versions of Snow White aren't there? There was Snow White and Rose Red (Rose Red = wicked queen, punishment was the burning iron shoes that made her dance) and then I think there was another story in there with Snow White and the Dwarves.

I like the Grimm fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty getting raped, wasn't that Ana Rice (sorry can't spell)? I grew up with the Grimm fairy tales, in Germany......I missed when they read it to me. Not all the grimm fairy tales are grosh, they have a more darker tone, but then again, it was in German, and when things get translated words do get either lost or miss quoted, or there isn't a word for that other languish.

That makes sense, did they tell you the stories in German or English?

Originally Posted by Zero_Hawkins_Yuy

I like the Grimm fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty getting raped, wasn't that Ana Rice (sorry can't spell)? I grew up with the Grimm fairy tales, in Germany......I missed when they read it to me. Not all the grimm fairy tales are grosh, they have a more darker tone, but then again, it was in German, and when things get translated words do get either lost or miss quoted, or there isn't a word for that other languish.

That's interesting. Though I think the story of Cinderella originated in China. The glass slippers were gold and the Fairy godmother was a golden fish.

I love the Brother's Grimm Tales.

The story was good. Though I read a book on The Little Mermaid before about how she really didn't end up with the prince. Though I do like the Disney better. Happy endings are better. :D

Originally Posted by nette

That's interesting. Though I think the story of Cinderella originated in China. The glass slippers were gold and the Fairy godmother was a golden fish.

Actually, I'm pretty sure no one knows where Cinderella really originated. It's two versions of it found hundred of thousands of miles away from each other. Weird world, huh?

Yeah, I checked out a huge collection of most of the Grimm Brother's rehashings of German folklore and it's pretty hilarious.... and often a tad boring. My favorite work of theirs is "When Children Play Butcher with Each Other." Lovely, gory, hilarious. Everybody dies... Don't get me wrong, I'm not usually so dark, but, seriously, it's completely ridiculous.

There's a Cinderella story in many cultures, and China's isn't the original, they've developed by themselves. My sister has read pretty much every version. Her favorite movie version is Ever After. And the Hammerstein Cinderella.

Originally Posted by nette

That's interesting. Though I think the story of Cinderella originated in China. The glass slippers were gold and the Fairy godmother was a golden fish.

There could be many different versions of a cinderella around the world, but I can't tell you were and what country started the very first version of cinderella. All I know was the Bother grims were Germans who would travel around Europe (mainly Germany) collecting stories and writing it down. I was told both version (English and German)

It had been awhile since I read the Grimm version. I remembered the bit about cutting off toes because Queens have no need to go round on foot but most of the rest of it felt new again. I’d forgotten about the tree and Cinderella casting her own spells, with help from her dead mother rather than relying on the bibbity bobbity boo.

Love that the “ugly” stepsisters were superficially pretty. That the ugliness is within them. Much more realistic. I wondered why the father LET them treat his daughter that way an was astonished that he said "There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but…” Oh my gosh. How harsh.

Originally Posted by Zero_Hawkins_Yuy

I like the Grimm fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty getting raped, wasn't that Ana Rice (sorry can't spell)? I grew up with the Grimm fairy tales, in Germany......I missed when they read it to me. Not all the grimm fairy tales are grosh, they have a more darker tone, but then again, it was in German, and when things get translated words do get either lost or miss quoted, or there isn't a word for that other languish.

Yes Anne Rice did write a few books on Sleeping beauty, they were umm, "adult". A lot of bondage and ownership stuff was involved, also a LOT of sex. I don't really recommend it. Last I knew it was under an alias.

But Prince charming had sex with sleeping beauty and she woke up in labor with his twins. Since she was asleep for the conception, I would call that rape.

Haha, this was the version my grandmother used to read to me when I was a little girl. Love. It.

I think once you've read the original Grimm tales, it's hard to read or watch anything fluffy--for example, the Disney version of Cinderella. Ick.

when i was a kid the disney version of cinderrella was all i could ever think about. id have my sister play the evil stepmother and make me clean her room.but now as a teenager i prefer the grimm brothers' version.i wrote a report on them in my reading class and got 100 because i love all of their stories.