General research on Twisted Tales

Little Brother Little sister - Grimm's fairy Tale

This story starts out with a brother talking to his sister about how their parents are dead their stepmother abuses them and they only get bread crusts while the dog gets the good stuff. So he takes his sister and runs away.

Eventually, the brother drinks from a stream that was cursed by his stepmom, who is also a witch, and he turns into a buck. His sister bawls her eyes out and they go to live in a cottage. They are discovered by a king who marries the sister and lets the deer run around the palace.

When the witch stepmom hears about this, she’s not too happy. And neither is her birth daughter — who, by the way, is hideous and one-eyed. Somehow, she devises a plan to lock up the sister in a bathroom shortly after she gives birth. The witch lights a fire and the sister suffocates. The witch then turns her own daughter into an image of the queen, except for that missing eye. It won’t go away.

Unfortunately for her the true sister/queen’s ghost visits the baby, and the king sees her. He has the one-eyed bride torn up by wolves and the stepmother burned alive.

Then the sister comes back to life and the brother turns back into a human. They lived … happily ever after?

Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood) —Grimm’s Fairy Tales

We all know this story, but this is a little more gruesome. Basically, Red loves anyone and everyone who looks at her, and they her — her granny most of all. Granny had made for her the beautiful red velvet cap (or cape, as it became) she was known for.

On her trip to grandmother’s house, she runs into a wolf. Immediately trusting, she tells the wolf where her grandmother lives and he devises a plan to eat them both. He heads to granny’s and devours her, then puts on her clothes. Unfortunately, when Red arrives, he eats her, too. Luckily, a passing huntsman thinks Granny is snoring too loudly and goes to investigate.

Once inside he realizes something is wrong. With a pair of scissors, he cuts the wolf’s belly open. Luckily, Granny and Red are fine, of course. They fill the wolf with rocks (he sleeps through this) and sew him up. When he wakes up later, he tries to stand but falls down — and that’s when he actually dies.

Later, another wolf tries to eat them. But they trick him into drowning himself. So that’s great.

And this is not all.... In most of the Grimm's Tales were noticed:

• Premarital sex

In the original version of “Rapunzel,” published in 1812, a prince impregnates the title character after the two spend many days together living in “joy and pleasure.” “Hans Dumm,” meanwhile, is about a man who impregnates a princess simply by wishing it, and in “The Frog King” a princess spends the night with her suitor once he turns into a handsome bachelor. The Grimms stripped the sex scenes from later versions of “Rapunzel” and “The Frog King” and eliminated “Hans Dumm” entirely.

• Child abuse

Even more shockingly, much of the violence in “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” is directed at children. Snow White is just 7 years old when the huntsman takes her into the forest with orders to bring back her liver and lungs. In “The Juniper Tree” a woman decapitates her stepson as he bends down to get an apple. She then chops up his body, cooks him in a stew and serves it to her husband, who enjoys the meal so much he asks for seconds. Snow White eventually wins the day, as does the boy in “The Juniper Tree,” who is brought back to life. But not every child in the Grimms’ book is so lucky. The title character in “Frau Trude” turns a disobedient girl into a block of wood and tosses her into a fire. And in “The Stubborn Child” a youngster dies after God lets him become sick.

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