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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

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