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Disturbing Origins of Fairy Tales and Their Dark Themes
TLDR Fairy tales were originally filled with dark and disturbing elements such as rape, murder, cannibalism, and incest before being sanitized by Disney. Stories like Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood served as cautionary tales, warning children about sexual predators and evil stepmothers.
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The hosts discuss their selective approach to watching TV shows and their willingness to bail on a show if it starts to suck.
04:13
Fairy tales originally had a lot more death, destruction, cannibalism, murder, rape, incest, torture, kidnapping, sex with the comatose, necrophilia, and other disturbing elements before they were sanitized by Disney.
08:53
Pinocchio kills the cricket, gets hanged and killed by his enemies, and there is a statue of The Little Mermaid in Denmark that is not the Disney version.
13:36
In the original version of Cinderella, the evil stepmother tells her daughters to cut off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper, and the pigeons later pluck out their eyes.
18:03
In the original version of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf eats her grandmother, dresses up in her clothing, and then eats Little Red Riding Hood as well, with the moral of the story being to not expose oneself to sexual predators.
22:27
The story of Little Red Riding Hood warns children, especially young girls, not to listen to strangers, as they could be sexual predators, while the story of Hansel and Gretel teaches children to be cautious of evil stepmothers and witches.
26:42
The story of Rumpelstiltskin involves a miller's daughter who is forced to spin straw into gold by an imp named Rumpelstiltskin, who eventually asks for her child as payment.
31:25
Rumpelstiltskin gets angry when the miller's daughter correctly guesses his name and tears his body into two pieces in the 1812 version of the story.
35:48
In the original version of Sleeping Beauty, the prince rapes the unconscious woman.
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In the original version of Sleeping Beauty, the princess becomes pregnant while still asleep and is raped, and in another version, a king rapes a maiden and the queen orders her and her children to be killed and cooked.
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