by Stacy Conradt , Laurel Mills & John Green
ThoseDisneyendings where the prince and the princess stop up blissfully married ? Yeah , they do n’t really pass in the original tale . To ensure kid go home happy , not appall , Disney usually has to change the conclusion . Read on for the original endings to a couple ofDisney classics(and some more obscure story ) .
1. Cinderella
Do n’t break off out your violins for this gal just yet . All that inhuman treatment poor Cinderella endured at the hands of her overbear stepmother might have been well deserve . In the oldest versions of the story , the slightly more sinister Cinderella actually belt down her first stepmother so her father will marry the housekeeper alternatively . pretend she was n’t banking on the housekeeper ’s six girl moving in or that never - ending job list .
2. Sleeping Beauty
In the original version of the tale , it ’s not the osculation of a handsome prince that wakes Sleeping Beauty , but the nudging of her new-sprung twin . That ’s right . While unconscious , the princess is impregnated by a monarch and wakes up to find out she ’s a mom twice over . Then , in true Ricki Lake form , Sleeping Beauty ’s " child ’s daddy " triumphantly returns and hope to institutionalize for her and the nipper after , conveniently block to mention that he ’s already married . When the trio is eventually brought to the palace , his married woman tries to belt down them all , but is thwarted by the king . In the remnant , sleep Beauty gets to splice the guy wire who violated her , and they all survive happily ever after .
3. Snow White
At the end of the original German version pen by theBrothers Grimm , the sinful queen is fatally punished for trying to kill Snow White . It ’s the method she is punished by that is so foreign , as she is made to trip the light fantastic wearing a pair of red - hot smoothing iron shoe until she falls over dead .
4. The Little Mermaid
You ’re likely familiar with the Disney variation ofThe Little Mermaidstory , in which Ariel and her sassy crab louse champion , Sebastian , subdue the wicked ocean witch , and Ariel swims off to marry the homo of her pipe dream . InHans Christian Andersen ’s original tale , however , the title character can only come in on land to be with the handsome prince if she drinks a potion that makes it finger like she is walking on knives at all times . She does , and you would expect her altruistic enactment to stop with the two of them getting wed . Nope . The prince hook up with a different adult female , and the Little Mermaid hurl herself into the sea , where her body dissolves into sea froth .
1. The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter
When the King ’s married woman become flat , he depose he will never marry again unless he finds a fair sex who fits dead into his dead Queen ’s wearing apparel . Guess what ? His girl does ! So he insists on marry her . Ew . clearly , she has a problem with this and render to cypher out how to avoid nuptials dear honest-to-goodness dad . She allege she wo n’t marry him until she gets a trunk that locks from outdoors and inside and can move around over land and sea . He start it , but she says she has to verify the pectus works . To rise it , he locks her inside and floats her in the sea . Her plan work : she just keep back floating until she reaches another shore . So she escape marrying her dada , but end up figure out as a scullery maid in another commonwealth . From here , you may follow the Cinderella story : She cope with a prince , leaves her brake shoe behind , he kick the bucket around trying to see who it belongs to . The End .
2. The Lost Children
This French nance tale start out just like Hansel & Gretel . A pal and sister get lost in the woods and get themselves pin in cages , getting plumped up to be consume . Only it ’s not a wicked hag , it ’s the Devil and his wife . The Devil makes a sawhorse for the lilliputian boy to bleed to death on ( severely ! ) and then go for a walk , telling the girl to get her buddy situated on the sawbuck before he return . The siblings pretend to be confused and ask the Devil ’s wife to demonstrate how the male child should lay on the sawbuck ; when she demonstrate them they draw her to it and slice her throat . They slip all of the Devil ’s money and scarper in his passenger car . He trail after them once he discovers what they ’ve done , but he die in the process . Yikes .
3. The Juniper Tree
Cannibalism , murder , anddecapitation ? Freakiness abounds left and right in this unearthly Grimm story . A widower gets remarried , but the 2d married woman loathes the son he had with his first married woman because she wants her daughter to inherit the family wealth . So she offers the little male child an apple from inside a chest . When he lean over to get it , she slams the lid down on him and chop his head off . Well , the woman does n’t require anyone to bed that she wipe out the male child , so she puts his head back on and twine a handkerchief around his neck to conceal the fact that it ’s no longer attached . Her daughter stop up knock his caput off and getting blamed for his death . To hide what happened , they hack up the organic structure and make him into pudding , which they feed to his poor father . Eventually the boy is reincarnated as a shuttle and he drops a rock on his stepmother ’s head , which kill her and take him back to life .
4. Penta of the Chopped-off Hands
These erstwhile fairy tales certain do savour a level-headed Zen of incest . In this Italian tale , the Billie Jean King ’s wife dies and he falls in sexual love with Penta … his sister . She tries to make him come down out of sexual love with her by chopping off her hands . The Billie Jean Moffitt King is pretty upset by this ; he has her locked in a chest and flip out to ocean . A fisher tries to save her , but Penta is so beautiful that his jealous wife has her thrown back out to sea . Luckily , Penta is rescued by a Martin Luther King Jr. ( who is n’t her brother ) . They get marry and have a baby , but the infant is stomach while the tycoon is away at sea . Penta tries to send the male monarch the good news of the sister , but the covetous fisherman ’s wife stop the message and change it to say that Penta give birth to a puppy . A puppy ? ! The evil wife then constructs another fake message , this time from the king to his servants , and enounce that Penta and her baby should be burned alive . OK , tenacious story myopic : the king figures out what the jealous wife is up to and has her glow . Penta and the B. B. King live merrily ever after . I ca n’t really figure out what the moral of this story is . Chopping hands off ? return nascence to a dog ? Help me out here , citizenry .
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