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While this fairytale doesn't really have gruesome origins, I thought I would share it anyway. Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a 19th century British fairytale. The later variations are all based on the initial fairytale. Version 1 By Robert Southey In Robert Southey's version of the tale, three anthropomorphic bears – "a little, small, wee bear, a middle-sized bear, and a great, huge bear" – live together in a house in the woods. Southey describes them as very good-natured,

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Puss in Boots. While this is not a stereotypical gruesome story but the actual story of this fairytale is rather interesting. The animated movie version synopsis is; Long before meeting Shrek, Puss in Boots -- just named a hero for saving a woman from a charging bull -- is run out of town on suspicion of bank robbery, even though the real villain is Puss' friend, Humpty Dumpty. Though there i

Here is another installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales; today we are covering Pocahontas. We all know the Disney version of this story. Pocahontas was a young native american living on the east coast of the USA, with her people. A English ship arrives and brings English settlers with it. Pocahontas meets English settler John Smith and eventually falls in love with him. John Smith is captured by Pocahontas's tribe, and when the tribe starts to prepare for wa

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