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In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Hercules. We all know the Disney version, Disney tackles Greek mythology in this animated feature. Hercules, a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Hercules needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes, a

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we will be covering The Frog Prince. We all know the Disney version of this story, The Princess and the Frog. Set in the 1920s New Orleans, the film tells the story of a hardworking waitress named Tiana who dreams of opening her own restaurant. After kissing a prince who has been turned into a frog by an evil witch doctor, Tiana becomes a frog herself and must find a way to turn back into a human before it i

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Chicken Little or Henny Penny as it is otherwise known as. Chicken Little is based on the old English folktale sometimes called Chicken Licken or Henny Penny. When a piece of sky falls on the head of Chicken Little, no one believes him. However, his friends trust him and together they save the world from ending. In the Disney version Young Chicken Little throws his small town into panic by cl

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Little Red Riding Hood. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is pretty much common knowledge at this point, however it should be repeated in its more well-known version before diving into its original telling. Red Riding Hood is a little girl nicknamed such for the red jacket she always wears. On her way to bring food to her sick Grandmother’s house, she meets a cunning wolf who inquires about