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Before going to sleep every night, those words were the magic key through which the warm voices of our mothers and grandmothers brought us into the worlds of myth and fantasy. Where the beautiful princesses in distant castles, the cavalry knights roam the woods, and the brave children are engaged in adventures with terrifying monsters and dangerous gazelles and triumph over them. We grew up on these stories and formed an important part of our childhood and our collective memory. It seems to be a thread that connects us to something common to all of us, before us, and will remain after us.

But many of the stories in its original version were not quite a moment, and a happy ending did not end. It was filled with bloody details, and there was a very gloomy atmosphere. Here we will review some of these famous stories, in their original version, before making them modify and change much nicer than they were.

The lady in red

The end of the Red Riding Hood was not quite happy. The little girl who always wore a red robe when she went to her grandmother's house in the woods one day was not saved, and ended up as a delicious meal for the hungry wolf, or so the story goes in the version of Charles Pero. In that version, the red-haired wolf precedes her grandmother's house and begins to devour her, and then, dressed and lying in bed waiting for the small to come. Up to that point, the story is similar to the one we used to, but when the same red robe arrives, something strange happens. The wolf orders the girl to take off her clothes and share the bedding. Naked, the girl enters the bed where the wolf devours it.

The tafsila sheds light on one of the symbolic meanings that the story conveyed in the time of Peru. In addition to the usual moral value derived from the story of the need not to talk to strangers and obedience to parents, there is another value specifically addressed to young girls. The wolf here is not a real wolf, but a symbol of the ill-intentioned youth who wants to manipulate girls. "The children, especially the beautiful girls, should never talk to outsiders, so they do not become a meal for the wolves," he says, "but there are different types of wolves, there are wolves, Quiet, nice, they follow young girls in houses and on the streets, and unfortunately these gentle wolves are the most dangerous. " [1] This meaning also coincides with the common French expression in that period of the girl who lost her virginity without marriage. It was said of her: "You have seen the wolf." [2]

Sleeping Beauty

The first written copies of the 17th-century Sleeping Beauty are included in the book "The Sun, the Moon and Thalia". From that version, Charles Perot and the Brothers Grimm took their stories alike, changing many details of the Italian story. The narration goes through the first half of the original story without much variation from subsequent versions, but in the second half, the events take a completely different course. During the next sleep, the name of the beautiful sleeping here, does not pass by coincidence a prince, but a king, and when he sees and astonishes her beauty, does not print on her lips a kiss as thin as we used, but rapes. The sleeping princess does not wake up, not even during pregnancy and childbirth, because of what happened, but when one of her infants sucked the finger that the spindle had hit and sucked with the venom he had sent to sleep all these years.

The king, who was still dreaming of Talia and his two sons back to them, thinks of taking them to his palace, but there is one obstacle to this: the king is in fact married. But this does not detract from what I intend to do, and he and his two sons, Sun and Moon, will join his kingdom. As expected, his wife does not receive the news in the best way. The wife grabs the sun and moon and gives them to the cook until they slaughter them and cook them until the king takes them for lunch. But the good-hearted cook hates the two boys, hiding them and slaughtering a pair of sheep instead of them and giving them to the king.

As for the revenge of Talia, the wife gets a great deal full of snakes and poisons to sink in. But the next scream comes to the king and comes to save her, and when the wife reveals that she has fed him and his son, revolts and orders to bring the cook to throw in the pot. Then the chef tells him that his child is safe. As punishment for her, the king casts his wife in [3] fate and then married from Talia, where he lives in his palace accompanied by a companion and has a happy life.

Charles Piro's version changed a lot of details about that version. He eliminated the fact of rape, and the fact that the king - in the Peruvian version - becomes a prince - is married. Instead of the king's wife being the main villain in the second half of the story, instead of the prince's mother, which she made in her own version of Gula, this explains the fact that children will be followed later. The Brothers Grimm, however, have spent the second half of the story completely, ending the first half of the story with rape as a thin kiss. It was the version, which was incomparably nicer than all the previous versions and more child-friendly, that was famous for its fame and spread, and that Walt Disney later turned [4] into his famous "Sleeping Beauty."

The Little Mermaid

There may be no more sad story in the children's stories than the story of the bride. The story, as written by Dutch writer Hans Christian Andersen in the 19th century, goes far beyond what we saw in the famous Disney movie Happy End. Even the point where a little mermaid goes from the depths of the ocean to its surface and her eyes are on the prince to fall in love with him and save him from the storm, the two stories do not differ significantly in the outlines. But then the scene, each going in ways far apart, the original version of Anderson takes the most sad way.

The bride of the sea, who can no longer afford the life of water and swim in a fish tail while walking from above the surface of the earth, goes to the ocean floor to make her legs and body like humans, so she can approach the prince more and make him love her as much as she loves him. But the witch to answer her request, asking for a very high price: the voice of the most beautiful mermaid in the land and ocean. The magic drink, which will give it two feet, must cut the charming tongue of the bride of the sea and put it in it. These two feet will never feel that they are walking like any other human being without pain. Every step you take will feel as if you are walking over sharp blades cut off with blood. Above all, if the bridegroom failed to make the prince love her and take her as his wife, she would become a butter floating on the surface of the water on the morning of his marriage to another and disappear completely from existence; then lose both the human spirit that distinguishes them from all other creatures and gives them immortality in the kingdom of heaven, Long sea creatures spanning 300 years.

In Disney, it was the moment when the Mermaid saved the Prince from drowning to open his eyes and find in front of him something that greatly facilitated her mission when she turned to humanity and went to the surface of the earth. In Andersen's story, the moment of rescue was the first thread to weave the tragedy of the bride and the sea; the Prince had never seen her, and when he opened his eyes, he saw another girl who thought she had saved him and fallen in love with her. It is also difficult to lose the voice of the bride of the sea things on them, Prince, who later discovered that he is practicing the sound of beautiful singing, does not know that she had the most beautiful voices and sacrificed for him. Having lost her tongue, she can no longer speak to him and communicate with him and tell him everything she has gone through, so that her sad eyes look at him in the hope that he will understand them.

The most feared of the bride of the sea, the prince traveled to neighboring countries and saw her princess, and she was the girl who saw her first opened his eyes after the drowning and thought she saved him. The Prince's intention to marry her, and after the wedding over a luxury ship, stood the mermaid contemplating the water that would become butter floating above it with the first sunbeam. And transformed it into one of the girls of the air, it became an ethereal object that floats among the beings and is seen by no one, living for 300 years, and in its good work, will give its spirit of immortality and live in the kingdom of the Lord forever.

As a girl of air, this was the first thing she did: "The little bridegroom lifted her transparent arms to the sun of God in her eyes, and for the first time she shed tears, and in the ship the life and movement returned, and she saw the prince and his tender bride looking for her. She threw herself in the sea and accepted the bride's brow as she was invisible and smiled at the prince, before I went up with the other children of the air to the air in the pink clouds.

Why all those bloody?

In addition to these three stories, there are many other stories that we have heard as young people, and we never imagined that they already had such horrific details. In some versions, Snow White's exile to the forest and trying to kill her jealous of her beauty is not her father's wife, but her mother. After the prince loves her and marries her, her father's wife - or her mother - is punished by making her dance in their wedding, wearing a flared, iron-clad shoe, until she stumbles and dies. In Cinderella, the father's wife orders her daughters to cut off their toes in the hope that one shoe will suit them. After the marriage of Cinderella of the Prince, the birds punished the two girls for their cruelty with Cinderella, and their eyes pecked with dowry. Perhaps you find yourself wondering now a very legitimate question, which is: Why all those bloody?

The answer to this question may lie in the fact that these stories actually come back to the times of the past. In a study published by the Royal Society of Science, scientists refer to some of the popular stories of prehistoric times, many of which are older than thousands of years, making them older than some of the living languages ​​we speak today.

In those old times, much of what we now see as brutal and bloody was happening in a permanent and usual way. The punishments that were applied to the outlaws included: murder by trampling elephants or biting from the hands and feet of snakes, shedding and gutting, salting in a bowl of molten lead, pushing from the top of a mountain and of course cutting off the head and separating it from the body through the guillotine, What was a common punishment was until the French Revolution. In that context, everything that we consider bloody in popular stories does not become separate from the reality it came from. Here, because of the flexible nature of folk tales that always make them subject to change as a natural consequence of their verbal transmission across different times and cultures, the modern-day adaptation of these stories and its origins to Disney's cinematic quotations is quite natural and indeed very welcome. [7] It would have liked to grow up on a story where the wolf with the red robe had eaten and raped the sleeping beautiful prince.