I'm bored, I can't sleep, I'm going to teach you all about fairy tales.

Warning: It's a long post, baha!

Lately I've been thinking about the pre-Disney versions of fairy tales. The original fairy tales were pretty awful (interesting, but awful). Sometimes even before the Brothers Grimm's versions, you trace any fairy tale back to it's roots, and you get a pretty scary story.
Examples? I have plenty (due to the fact that I have: a twisted mind that needs twisted facts, as well as friends with equally twisted minds, eheh). Note that there are many different versions, but these ones seem to be consistant.
In the modern Sleeping Beauty, she is awoken by a kiss from a prince, and they live happily ever after! Aww, how sweet! But that's not how it's meant to be. In the original, Sleeping Beauty (named "Talia") isn't simply kissed, oh no. She is RAPED by said prince (yes, that's right, while she was technically dead). Several times. And because, y'know, there wasn't any good contraception back then, she got pregnant and woke up with a couple of kids. And in some versions, there's also child-eating involved. Lovely.
Even the scarier movie version of Snow White (the one with the girl who plays Lana from Smallville) fails to mention that the evil queen is forced, as punishment, to wear burning irons on her feet, and dance until she dies.
The original Hansel & Gretel is either not much different or VERY different. I've heard two things about the original: that it is the same as the modern, except the witch died when her throat was slit by H&G; OR the children end up being killed by the witch. Why? Because THEY led their STEPMOTHER out into the woods to die - not the other way around!
Cinderella? Her stepsisters were so desperate for the prince to marry them, that they cut off their own toes to try to fit into the glass slipper. And it worked. Crazyyy!
In Rapunzel, the prince often climbs up her hair, not because he is so desperate to see his love, but so he can get laid. Typical.
The Little Mermaid (which is one of the Disney movies I actually do like) doesn't involve true love, either. The non-sea dwelling man she is obsessed with ends up going with an evil sea witch, resulting in (depending on what you read) the Little Mermaid's suicide, or her murder of the man. Oh, and, for her legs, she gives up her voice (via cutting off her tongue), and she must feel like she is walking on knives all the time.
Little Red Riding Hood is probably the worst. Originally, Lil' Red is a bit (actually, a lot) of a whore. That red riding hood she wears? Old French symbol of prostitution. But wait, there's more! The Wolf (who actually is a werewolf) tries to rape Little Red Riding Hood (but she escapes), or, in some versions, Lil' Red tries to seduce Wolfy. Uh, creepy!

So there you have it. Fairy tales were meant as either warnings - mainly "Don't have sex! You'll dieee!" haha; or as stories meant as entertainment for ADULTS, not children!
There's probably a lot more out there; I just wrote down some stuff I remember.
You've probably been scarred for life by this long, disturbing blog post, hahaha!
But think twice when watching the Disney animations, mmkay?