meaning behind the fairytales. scay versions?

It is true that when the fairy tales originally came about, they weren't meant to be for kids like we've made them to be today. (Just to be clear, it wasn't Disney who made them for kids, it was when people started thinking using science instead of religion and folklore.) They were told to instruct and entertain, but mostly instruct on how to live good lives.

Yes, in the original story of Snow White written by the Brothers Grimm, the queen tried to kill Snow White three different times. With a belt tied too tightly around her waist, with a poisonous comb, and of course, a poisoned apple. And when she dies, it was because she was invited to Snow White's wedding, and she was forced to wear red-hot iron shoes, and dance in them until she died, which she did. And on top of all that, Snow White was only 7 when the Queen tried to kill her, and she slept in the glass coffin for 7 years before a Prince found her in the woods with the dwarfs. In the earliest known version of the story, it wasn't Snow White's stepmother who tried to kill her, it was her actual birth mother, but the Brothers Grimm changed that, and made her birth mother a good person, who died in childbirth. The lesson being to be wary of envy, for it will bring about your own downfall. And to always be kind to others.

In Sleeping Beauty, the thing about her being raped, that was actually an older story that Charles Perrault drew from when he wrote it down and it became the story we know of today. In the earliest version of the story, Briar Rose's father wakes her up after she bore him two children (in one version twins, in another two different children), and when one sucked on her finger, she drew out the piece of flax from the spinning wheel that had put her to sleep, thus waking her up. But then Charles Perrault wrote his own version of the story that we know today. The only difference between his story and the one we know today is that in the Perrault version, the prince already was married (to a female ogre) when he woke Briar Rose, which led to Part 2 of the story. Which can be read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty#Part_...

Oh, and when Prince John woke her up, he didn't do it with a kiss (though some will tell you he did), but, in reality, it was his presence alone that woke her. See, the good fairy prophesied that a prince would come, and left it at that, and since he did come, everything fell into place for him because of her magic; the thorns in front of the castle fell away, he was guided to the Princess by a light, and when he looked upon the sleeping Princess Briar Rose she woke up.They were married and had two children, a son named Jour (Day), and a daughter named Aurore (Dawn). And then the drama for Part 2 happened, but it is a happily ever after. The lesson being to obey your family, and that every one of us has a love of our life somewhere if we are willing to wait for it to find us.

Oh, (this wasn't on the list, but it does qualify) in the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, which came after Charles Perrault (who wrote the story we know today), when the stepsisters tried on the slipper, the stepmother cut off ones heel to make the shoe fit. And when the prince saw all the blood, he knew she wasn't the one. And then the second stepsister had her toe cut off to make the shoe fit. And when the Prince saw all the blood, he knew she wasn't the one. And there was no fairy godmother in the Grimm version, she got what she needed for the ball from the spirit of her mother through a tree she planted when her mother died. And at the end of the Grimm version, to pay for their wicked behavior, the step family had their eyes pecked out by Cinderella's bird friends. As opposed to the Perrault version where the stepsisters apologized, and Cinderella married them off to handsome and successful men. But we have stuck to the Perrault version. The only real difference between the story today, and the original Perrault version is that she didn't go to the ball only once, she went twice. The first time, and then again the next night where she lost her slipper.

In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf represented sexual predators, and Little Red represented innocent girls.The most noticeable was when the wolf asked Little Red to get into bed with him when he was dressed like grandma. The lesson being, to listen to your parents, don't listen or talk to strangers.

But you don't need to let these facts bother you. These stories were written to teach children to listen to their parents, and wives to listen to their husbands, (because at the time women weren't viewed as equal to men) And warned men of the curse that comes with adultery and lechery, etc.

That was then, and this is now. I've known these things for quite some time, and I love fairy tales anyway. They're full of magic, adventure, mystery, history, and some life lessons.

in sleeping beauty, the father actually rapes her while shes sleeping. she gets pregnant. and gives birth while shes still sleeping.. to twins. then she wakes up to all of this. no prince.. no kiss. nothing.

little mermaid, she was actually supposed to kill the prince with some magic knife, but she couldnt, so she threw it in the water, and jumped in there too. ended up dying and turning into mist.

red riding hood.. its real meaning is a girl that is going through puberty, the red hood means her period started. then some evil person comes around, and steals her virginity (the wolf)

My brother- I can one-up you where the Shining is concerned. I was married at Mt. Hood Lodge in Oregon (external location for the Shining) and we showed the Shining on the big screen in the movie room at the after-the-official-reception party. It was a huge hit! Oh, the avatar... I like the 'stache. It reminds me of my own 'stache, allowing me to live vicariously through my own impression of my 'stache.

look up grimes tales, there online, but cinderella her step sisters cut off there toes and the other cuts off her heel to fit into the glass slipper, in red riding hood the wolf actually gets red riding hood to unknowingly eat her dead grandmother, then the wolf rapes the girl

* fairy tales really started out as cautinary tales for children, thats why they were so morbid and painfull and scary, disney changed them to make into widley avalabile for children

Haha innocent. Look up the grimms brother orginal fairy tales, in google.

This site is an excellent resource: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

The prince raped Sleeping beauty? Dayum he was a date raper. He didn't have to waste a roofie on her...lolzzzz!!!