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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

Dark as it is, the story features child abandonment, attempted cannibalism, enslavement, and murder. Unfortunately, the origins of the story are equally — if not more — horrifying. It opens on a pair of children who are to be abandoned by their starving parents in the forest. The kids, Hansel and Gretel, get wind of their parents’ plan and find their way home by following a trail of stones Hansel had dropped earlier. The mother, or stepmother by some tellings, then convinces

In today's installment of The Gruesome Origins of Classic Fairytales we are covering The Snow Queen. The story is loosely represented in the Disney movie Frozen. We obviously know what Frozen is about but the synopsis of it is; two sisters are living in Arendelle, the oldest Elsa always wears gloves as she has ice/snow powers and the youngest Anna dreams of getting married. The sisters parents died when they were young when their ship sunk during a storm. The movie follows El