“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”- Albert Einstein

Everyone grows up watching fairy tale movies made by Disney, but do people really know the dark realities behind them? Most of the fairy tales people are familiar with today are actually decorated versions of uncomfortable historical events. Most of them originally containing: rape, cannibalism, and a lot of violence.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The fairy tale is based on a life of a 16th century noblewomen whose brother used small children to work his copper mine. Disney left out the part that the queen send the huntsman to bring back Snow white’s liver and lungs, for her to eat. And for revenge, Snow White forces her evil stepmother to dance to death on her wedding day.

Sleeping Beauty

In the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, the princess is cursed when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She then sleeps for a hundred years until a prince finally finds her and she wakes up after a magical kiss. But the original tale wasn’t so appropriate. In the original tale, she was found in the woods by a king while hunting. She gets raped while unconscious, and then gives birth to two children who then suck the splinter out of her finger.

Cinderella

In the Disney adaption of the Cinderella, she eventually forgives her evil stepsisters and marries the prince and lives happily ever after. But the Grimm brothers tell a totally different story. In their version, the nasty stepsisters chops off parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the slipper. And later gets their eyes pecked out by pigeons and end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars.

The reason why these stories were adjusted are easily understood. The message behind these stories are far more important than the events themselves. These Disney fairytale movies are meant to bring a positive impact on the children usually inspiring and leaving them in a world where stories always ended with “…they lived happily ever after”.