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Originally Disturbing Fairy Tale Classics.

1. The Frog Prince.
   A prince was put under a spell that turns him into a frog. A princess comes along and breaks the spell by kissing him. Short and sweet.
   But in the original, the prince’s spell wasn’t broken with a kiss. It was broken when the princess violently threw him against a wall in disgust. That kind of kills the thought of the princess seeing his inner beauty, doesn’t it?
   In earlier versions, the spell is lifted when the frog gets the girl to cut off his head with a rusty sword.
   
   
2. Beauty and the Beast.
   In the Disney movie, Belle’s father is imprisoned for trespassing. Belle goes off looking for him and finds that he’s imprisoned for life by a beast. She decides to bargain with this monster and takes her father’s place. She develops a crush on him, he loves her, he turns into a prince. It’s along the same lines as The Frog Prince.
   All of this is consistent with the original, except in an early version he explains that he was turned into a beast because he seduced an orphan. Wait, he had sex with a child whose harsh life already involved not having any parents? That’s pretty unforgivable, right? Well, not according to Belle.
   
   
3. Little Red Riding Hood
   The sugar-coated version of this story even scared me as a child. This little girl wants to go to her grandmother’s house. On her way, she runs into a wolf that gives her wrong directions. He gets there first and eats the grandmother and then the girl. A hunter appears out of no where and cuts the wolf open, freeing the seemingly uninjured Red and her grandmother. There are nicer versions, but that’s the one I grew up with.
   
   You’ve probably guessed the horrible truth behind this story, right? Yep, more cannibalism, except this time it isn’t intentional. Earlier versions of this tale have the wolf leave the grandmother’s blood and flesh for the girl to eat, who then accidentally cannibalizes her own grandmother. Once the girl is in bed with the wolf, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape by telling him she has to take a shit (that’s not even a joke), but he eventually eats her anyway. No hunter. The end.

via: guywithglasses.

My favorite Grimm Bros. tale is “Faithful John.” I’m not sure it’s even possible to Disney-fy that.