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In today's installme nt of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Beauty & the Beast. We all know the Disney version; Belle is a girl living in France, the whole village thinks she is strange because she reads all the time. She takes her father's place at the beast's castle after he was caught taking a rose. She eventually falls for the beast who turns into a prince. They end up getting married etc. Basically like every other Disney movie. The live-action

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we will be covering Snow White. Disney's version very closely resembles the early versions by Giambattista Basile and the Brothers Grimm. However small changes to the originals change this story from gruesome to the charming Disney version. We all know the Disney version Snow White's stepmother hates her and tells her huntsman to take her into the forest and kill her. Snow White runs into the forest and find

Today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering Sleeping Beauty. We all know what the Disney version is, Briar Rose grows up in the woods with the three fairies and then she gets stuck by a magic spinning wheel and falls into a sleep, when this happens the whole castle sleeps. Eventually vines cover the castle and its hidden from view. A wandering prince finds the castle and eventually gives Briar Rose a kiss which wakes her and everyone else

Today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering The Little Mermaid. We all know what the Disney version is, Ariel falls for Prince Eric and signs away her voice to spend time on land with him hoping he falls for her. Obviously the ending is a happy because it is a Disney movie. Which can't be said about the Hans Christian Andersen original. There are still lessons to learn from the movie. One lesson that I take from this movie was that don't

Good Morning! I would like to start this post off by saying that I was sent this book by A.M. Westerling to give my honest review. Enjoy!...

The start of the new year means that we are starting a new series. The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales will dive into different fairytales and we will see how they were originally written compared to the Disney versions that we have come to know and love. Original One of the most well-known early versions of “Cinderella” was recorded by the Brothers Grimm. The key differences are that while in the Disney version Cinderella lives with only her stepsisters and stepmother