Though nowadays many fairy tales have been altered to be more kid-friendly, children's stories used to be quite gruesome. They were only altered by Disney because they were afraid they wouldn't get any child audience if they actually animated gore. However, we see many of these original tales in the Grimms' Fairy Tales. The following are some examples I noticed in many famous children's stories.
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The original "The Little Mermaid" had some gruesome scenes that I read about the mermaid pondering whether or not to stab the prince with a dagger. In the end, the mermaid committed suicide. It was first published as a children's fairy tale in the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Same with Snow White - parents are fine with innocent children watching someone getting poisoned by an apple and falling into a state of pseudo death...?
Yet again we see this display of death in Little Red Riding Hood - just because people aren't chewed and minced into little bits when they're swallowed by a wolf doesn't lessen the impact of pseudo death.
Something even more gruesome and just wrong showed up in the original version of Cinderella. In an attempt to fool the prince, the stepmother cut off parts of the stepsisters' feet to fit them in the shoe.
Rapunzel is another example. Firstly, why do parents have no problem with allowing their children to watch movies about kidnapping babies? Secondly, in the original, Rapunzel was cast out into an unforgiving desert by the witch after the witch discovered her attempt to escape the tower with the prince. The prince himself was BLINDED and landed on a conveniently positioned thorn bush after falling all the way down from the tower's sole window - then promptly was thrown into the nearby forest with his horse to survive by foraging for berries, etc.
If you dig carefully and even shallowly, there are many more. Baba Yaga, Hansel&Gretel, etc.
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To sum it up, I feel that many children's stories/movies are in actuality PG13 or INAPPROPRIATE for children to read/hear/watch... The sole thing I could think of after reading that book of Grimm's fairy tales for children was "WTF!?!?!???!!!!!!" Sometimes, I wonder what the world has come to. I am writing this so everyone reading this knows about the true face of fairy tales!
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