What captivates children's imagination in fairy tales? Can these fairy tales hide a terrifying truth? Did you know that the most famous anecdotes are based on real and true stories.

Cinderella
The story of Cinderella is very famous and has a happy ending, but the real story is not so beautiful. It revolves around a super-beautiful girl in ancient Greece called Rhodopes, men fall in love and seduced her with extravagant gifts. From which he had a pair of gold shoes.

One day, one of the kings saw her wearing this shoe, and he married her, but he mistreated her and lived under slavery throughout her life.

The beautiful Cinderella did not lead a happy life with the prince

snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The true story of Snow White is horrific. It is set in the 16th century in Bavaria, Germany, about a young woman named Margaret von Waldeck, whose brother uses young children to work in his mine.

Because of catastrophic circumstances, these children become frighteningly mutilated, so that the locals call them dwarfs.

The author explained that Margaret was beautiful exceptional beauty, which angered her stepmother, and sent her to Brussels for disposal.

Hence, Margaret began an affair with Prince Philip II, son of the King of Spain, whose father, the King of Spain, strongly opposed the relationship and planned to kill Margaret, and soon after the girl died of poisoning.

Beauty and the beast
The writer pointed out that the true story of the story of "beautiful and the beast" occurred in 1537, when a young boy named Gonsalfos, a ten-year-old, from his home in Spain to the French royal court.

This child was suffering from a condition called hyper hair or "wolf syndrome", causing hair growth throughout his body.

The king considered him a small monster, so he took care of him, taught him and made him a noble man. When the king died, the queen initiated the marriage of the "beast"; despite his appearance, he lived a happy life with his wife and had seven children.

Monster was just a young man with wolf syndrome (websites)

Rapunzel
The writer said Rapunzel's true story is based on the story of a red-haired girl who lived in the third century, and her arrogant father was a wealthy merchant who travels all the time, and since he did not find a perfect man for his daughter, he decided to lock her in a tower when he was not at home.

During those times she spent inside the tower, the Christian girl embraced the religion and the unity of her unit, reciting her prayers loudly until the whole city heard him, but her Christian prayers angered her pagan father so much that he forced her to appear before the Roman consul to abandon her religion.

The consul asked the merchant to either give up his wealth or behead his daughter if she refused to give up Christianity. The result was that the man refused to give up his wealth, and his daughter was beheaded, and after her death she was called Saint Barbara.

Blue beard
Davies reported that the story of the blue beard is as horrifying as a famous fairy tale. In the tale, a king named Blue Beard marries a beautiful young princess and takes her to his magnificent castle, then gives her the keys to all the rooms in the castle but tells her not to open the last door in an underground room.

Out of curiosity, the Queen opens the room to find the king's ex-wives dead and hung on the hooks.

She tries to wash the key to no avail, and fortunately her brother rushes to save her by killing the blue beard before hurting her.

The writer explained that this fictional story is based on two figures of reality, the first is Kunomur Damned, a 16th-century governor in Bretten, Germany, received a warning that one of his sons will be killed. As a result, he killed all his pregnant wives.

In the story, the ghosts of the murdered wives warned Trevin's last wife of the same fate, leading to her escape from the palace. But Connomore found her beheaded, and miraculously brought back to life by a sacred monk and returned together to the Governor's Fortress, to collapse the walls around him.

The second realist is the fifteenth-century murderer Gil de Reis, who was killing children. He was nicknamed the Blue Beard because of his horse's seemingly blue mane in the day, and Gilles de Rice was one of the most nefarious mentally ill in the world.

Piper Hamlin
The writer relayed the story of Zammar in the German city of Hamelin, who had the ability to play hypnotic music and charm some animals.Therefore, in 1264 the villagers asked him to play his pipe to get rid of all the rats that plagued the region and promised him a lot of money for his service.

In fact, the boy saved them from all the mice, but the villagers broke their promise, which angered the musician, so he went out again and played the oboe, but this time it was the children who fell victim to the hypnotic music, so they followed the player and left no trace.