Sleeping Beauty.

The original Sleeping beauty was heavily edited, even cut into 2 seperate stories. The latter half "The Stepmother," was disguarded in most latter versions.

The girls's name was Talia, not Rose. Rose came from 'Brier Rose' wich is supposed to mean "blossoming girl," or something like that. Rather than invite fairies to bless the princess, he ordered wisemen & Seers to predict all her fortunes. One old seerer predicted that's she'd be poisoned by a sharp piece of flax (more likely, deadly allergic to flax). Rather than ban all spinding wheels, flax as banned from the kingdom.

At somepoint in puberty (wich could be very early, knowing archaic law) she chanced upon an old seamstress, who was not a witch or pixie, who was spinning cloth from blackmarket flax. She gleefully insisted the old lady fork it over & within minutes cut herself with a little splinter of flax & fell flat on her face. The old woman ran away (not likely to tell the king she had flax).

He put her on a huge canopied velvet couch like she was taking a nap. It's not implied anywhere that the king ordered the castle abandoned, but he clearly abandons the place shortly after.

Another king on a hunt comes across the still unconfirmed abandoned castle when his hunting hawk darted in through one of the windows, went in looking for it, & finds Ms. Sleepy all alone. Having either a fetish for screwing sleeping women, or being a necophilliac, he does the wild thing & runs back home. Nine months latter Talia wakes up with 2 infants suckling her hands apparently, cuz one manages to get out the splinter & I KNOW he didn't poke her breast. (Apparently babies can be born without the mother's help). Finding herself abandoned, she quickly comes to enjoy having children. Mr. Horny pops in & finds her awake with kids & decides to take responsibility for his happy pants, because god wouldn't have it any other way, but apparently his wife didn't agree.

In some versions the wife is replaced by a stepmother who is in fact an Ogress. But in the original version she's a wife. This part is also coincidently similar to a part of Snow White Disney left out.

Apparently the poor princess is SO confused, she makes friendly with her silent assailant. They name their daughter Luna & their son Sole. He spends a few days with her before returning to the old ball & chain. The wife or in-law orders her or the king's servant to send for the king's illigitimate children after threatening information out of him. The queen then orders the cook to kill & prepare a meal made of the children to serve to the king, though in "The Stepmother," the woman planned to eat them herself. In one version the chief replaces them with lambs, but in another, he kills 2 random children & makes food of them. The king came home & ate, then he & the queen get into a fight about who brings home the bacon.

The king took off for a rest in a villa. The queen was still possed off & sent for Talia in the king's name. The queen told Talia she was a slut for covorting with a married man, Talia said the king raped her. Even more pissed at the king, the queen decided to destroy all that made the king happy & ordered Talia to be burned alive. The king comes in after hearing the commotion, the wife tells her prank, the king orders her to be tossed in the fire, the cook spills the beans, the kids come out, happily ever after, blah blah blah. It doesn't say if they actually burn the queen though. In "the Stepmother" the king pushes her into the cauldron she was planing to boild the children alive in, but I don't think he eats her.

Despite the dumb moral they GIVE, the REAL messages the story sends are "marry your rapist" & "cheat on your wife, you can always kill her latter."

Disney was WAY off.

Aladdin & Robin Hood.

Originally, Aladdin lived with his mother, not by himself. The mother sucks up to the king with gifts, not "the geenie throws a big town party," plus a male geenie is a djin. The princess never has any prior meetings with Aladdin & marries the Vizir's son, not the "Vizir tries to marry her to be king." Also, it was Aladdin's african uncle wo tried to use him to get the lamp, not the Vizir. Lastly, Aladdin stole the princess from her bridal bed & claimed her for himself...real romantic.

Disney's Robin Hode is a far cry from any version of Robin Hood I've ever read. Firstly, in the old Robyn Hoode ballads & books, here was NO MAID MARRIAN. She was created a good 300 years latter to make Robyn look less gay by order of the church. She was inspired by the May Queen & the virgin Mary. In the versions that DO have Marrian, she's usually a tomboy who joins the Merry Men in drag.

In some " ye olde" versions, I feel that Robyn seems to respect the Sherrif. It's really gay how he likes to tease him. Where the hell is Sir Guy of Gisborne? He's an important enemy! & where did Prince John come from?

Most books told about Robyn's death. Some say Little John was there, some say a nun related to the late sherrif poisoned him when he came to the church in grief, & older versions simply state that he commited suicide in the church shortly after disbanding his men for hanging the sherrif (even gayer still. Would have made a great homosexual Romeo & Juliet with an Eroica Yori Ai wo Komette twist).

Little Red Riding Hood.

This has GOT to be the most edited short story in history. It's hardly surprising that the original was the true inspiration for Merry Melodies' Red Hot Ridinghood.

Originally, LRRH is really not so little (well, she's at least the 'legal age' for 1700s). Her mom sends her out to give her sick grmma a healthy meal of wine & sugary cake, in anothe rit's butter instead of wine, just as healthy). She meets a warewolf in the woods, & blabbermouth that she is, tells him where she's going & how to get htere. He takes the quickest route & beets her there, kills the grandmother, draws her blood into a wine pitcher, cuts her flesh into meat & puts it on a platter (no mention of cooking), puts on the nighty & cap, makes a mask of the old lady's face, & crawls into bed expectantly.

LRRH pops in & the gramma-faced warewolf tells her to eat the flesh & drink the wine, wich she does, & the cat (who appears out of nowhere & can magically talk) calls her a slut (when he should have called her a cannible). Then the warewolf makes her do a strip-tease & tells her to throw them in the fire cuz she won't be needing them. (this would have been a better time for the cat to call her a slut). The girl catches on & does the eyes-nose-mouth bit. In the lame ending to the french tale, she then makes an excuse to leave, & the wolf ties a string to her so she won't run away. Of course she ties the string to a tree & rns off. Lame ending. In a latter pre-Grimm story, there's no cat, but the wolf eats her, & there's no hunter or woodcutter to save her.

That ending always reminds e of the ending to the 3 little pigs. The wolf decides to go down the chimmeny of the brick house & lands in a boiling kettle. The last pig seals him in the kettle & latter eats the wolf that ate his brothers. Both had a wolf & a cannibal.

Cinderella.

Cinderella: An old sory told all over the world. The original version of Aschenputtel is very similar to the 2ed half of Allerleirauh (aka Princess in Disguise, aka Cap'o'Reeds), & the first half or the original Beauty & the Beast. Originally, Cinderella's father was still alive & when he went into town for business, he'd ask her & the stepdaughters what gift they'd like from town. She'd ask for something stupid like "the first twig that hits you on the way." Ironically, when she plants the twig he brings her into the ground, it grows into a freaking tree! This part is like Beauty & the Beast, because Belle asked her father to bring back a simple rose when her sisters ask for jewelry & clothes.

Now it gets into Allerleirauh. The king's wife is dead & it's time for him to choose a new bride....not the prince, though he Grim's change that latter on, & the ball lasts 3 days. There's no fairy godmother in this old story, but the tree has a dove living in it that magically can cary 50 times its own weight & can apparently understand human language. After reciting a whiny pom, the dove carries her a different dress & a pair of shoes every night. It's not explained who does her hair. The shoe she's wearing on the 3ed day is made of solid gold & she steps in some pitch the prince purposely spilled on the stairs.

Apparently her foot is so freaking small that no girl over the legal age except her has the same sized foot. By the time the prince gets to her house, the stepmother convinces the girls to lop of their toes & heels to get into the shoe, but the magical talking dove always comes over & tells the prince that there's blood in the shoe. When the prince asks for the cinder wench, it's the father who insists that she's not worth trying, but the shoe fits. Another version has the prince returning from months of searching for princesses, countesses, etc. & runs into her on the way home & discovers she has the other shoe. Durring the wedding, doves gouge out the sisters' eyes...as if missing foot parts weren't bad enough. In the Chinese version, the mother & sisters are either crushed by a boulder or sealed in a cave.

In Allerleirauh, the king wanted to marry his own daughter, who resembled his late wife. She had him make her 3 dresses among other things, before she ran away. The king has a shitty memory & it's his own hunters discover her in a coat of many furs & drag her ass in as a trophy. She ends up working in the kitchen for food & shelter & slips her wedding gifts into the soup she makes for him. Always he asks to see her & where she got the stuff, apparently too farsighted to recognize his own flesh & blood, but she lies & says she doesn't know. He throws 3 balls, she always shows up, he finds the last gift on her...his late wife's wedding ring, & finally realizes it's her & marries his own daughter. In Cap'o'Reeds, the girl is thrown out by her own father & has a coat made of Reeds & marries a king she's NOT related to.

Prologue.

When we're kids, we grow up with the bullshit happy endings Disney throws down our throats. At least their old shit is better than the new shit under the shitty new owner. What's with all this musical BS & why are the character designs always the same now? Girls who grow up thinking their special & that everything will have a happy ending are doomed to live unhappy relationships while in denial. Long ago, even durring the time of the Grimms, fairy tales were gossipy housewife stories & latter, stories women told their kids to scare them into behaving or teach life's mean little lessons. So how different is Disney etc. from the originals?