I went through my elementary years, hearing all folks pronouncing my name, ru-bi-li. And as I stepped in and out in my freshmen to senior years, I had this call, ro-bel. This rooted when my Filipino prof asked a suggestion of how she would address me, well, there goes a spark and just to get a fame, I answered, robel. (same name of the heartthrob senior guy in school)
Well, I guess, you can say my name now, very well.
Friday, July 19, 2013
I got this message from Sir Geoff of the Jesus Daily page. From the bottom of my hypothalamus, I thank him.
Hi Robele,
In the book of Matthew, it says that we are to seek God's kingdom first, and that He will take care of our needs....
"But
seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things
(what you will eat or drink or clothes) will be given to you as well."
Matthew 6:33
God tells us not to worry about what we will eat or
drink or wear. I know I find it hard not to worry about some things.
And I know also that God's word is true. So I pray that you will seek
his kingdom and righteousness first, and that God will provide for you.
I'd like to pray for you right now;
"Heavenly
Father, you are a gracious God who made each one of us, and loves us,
and who meets the needs of those who love you and seek after your
kingdom. I pray for Robeles, that you fill him with your Holy Spirit
and help him to seek after your kingdom and your righteousness, and also
that you meet his needs according to your perfect timing. I pray this
in the powerful name of Jesus, Amen."
This is taken from the book entitled Seeds of Revolution authored by Sonia S. Daquila, 2003 outstanding teacher of the Philippines.
Imagine yourself attending a philosophy class at the University of Santo Tomas; a professor talked about scholasticism or neoThomism. With much enthusiasm the professor cited protozoan which were struck by the radiation rays and evolved into what we are now, human beings.
She said, "...there is nothing now that cannot be reconciled between science and religion, and we call this scholasticism or neo-Thomism."
One curious student asked:
"Professor, how can we possibly explain parthenogenesis or virgin birth? Scientifically, we know that the sex of the fetus is determined by the intermingling of the mother's and father's chromosomes.
If the father yields Y (for a male has XY pair and so he gives our neither X or Y) and pairs it with mother's X (female has a constant pair XX and thus she gives out X all the time) it will be a boy; and if the father pairs his X with the mother's X, it will be a girl.
We also know that the only source of Y is man. Therefore, parthenogenic baby (which very rarely happens) develops without male intervention. Conclusively, parthenogenic baby ought to be female.
Now, could you reconcile science and mystery in the birth of Jesus Christ?
Remember Professor that Jesus is a male. Thus, the pairing is XY. Where do you think the Y came from?"
The professor turned red and started tongue lashing at the seemingly innocent probinsiyana.
Whenever I don't have someone to chat with, I always visit the Jesus Daily page in my social networking account. I have posted there things that bother me, things that I thanked for and things that had happened. I would love to share this comment from Kathy Sorrell. Thanks to her.
"I am getting really black...everytime I would look at the mirror and see my face...now, I am so conscious." i said
At length she said:
"But
you don't know that ... The Bible says we will have a new body. If we
do have color in heaven... you're going to love, love, love, it!
Everything in heaven will be "Out of this world!" lol It will be
wonderful! God made you and He thinks you
are beautiful and you are. So stop! Think about Jesus and get your
eyes off of yourself. Saying that in love.... Dive into the Bible and
get to know Jesus and how much He loves you. Start reading in the book
of Matthew in the New Testament. Read the Psalms is the book of prayers
when we don't know how to pray. Proverbs give us wisdom... how to act
in every situation. .... Genesis tells about God creating the heavens
and the earth, all of creation and the first man and the first woman.
Adam and Eve.... It tells that Adams son, Cain built the first city...
they didn't really live in caves. David lived in caves as he was
running and hiding from King Saul who was jealous of him and wanted to
kill him because David was to be the next king.... There are so many
wonderful stories in the Bible. Just dive in and start really
living... God has a plan for your life.. a wonderful plan for your life.
He even planned each day of your life before you were born. Ask Him
each day what are Your plans for today, Lord. Get in step with God and
start living that life He has planned for you. When things get tough..
run into His arms.. He will protect you and give you His perfect
peace... if you will trust Him. Lean hard on Jesus... He will see you
through all of the hard things in your life. Give them to God, your
heavenly Father... But first give your life to Jesus as your Lord and
Savior and He opens the door for you to know God. Now, chin up... and
just be your wonderful self and start looking forward to your new life
in Jesus... Don't look back anymore. Wipe the slate clean, forgive
those who have hurt you and start a new day, a new beginning, a new life
with Jesus. You will be amazed at all He has for you. The Bible says
His blessings are new every morning. They may be the kindness of a
friend, a smile of a child, the beautiful morning air and the sound or
sight of a bird in flight. Not all blessings are material. You will
even begin to love yourself and see yourself as God sees you. Ask Him
to help you to see yourself as He sees you. Ask Him to help you
understand His Word, the Bible. I am praying for you... now grow...
grow where you are planted. :)"
Another goth disney stories. I owe every bit of letters to Melita Linaker. Thanks to her.
10 Disney Movies With Horrific Origins
As many people know by now, some of Disney’s much loved
animated musicals, beloved and enjoyed by so many happy little children
for the past eighty years, have truly horrific origins involving rape,
cannibalism, torture and other very nasty happenings. Some people
believe Disney improved the original stories, making them more
accessible and enjoyable to the general public, others are of the
opinion that Disney mauled them, or at least failed completely to do
them justice.
Here are ten examples of some of the lesser-known origins of Disney’s
movies, some going back in history to sources that many people are
unaware of, others revealing origins that haven’t previously been
discussed in such detail on the internet.
Whatever your own personal opinions of these disturbing origins and
Disney’s popular renditions of them, I hope you enjoy reading this list
as much as I enjoyed writing it.
10
Pinocchio: Corpses and Murder
Original: Pinocchio Kills the Cricket, the Fairy is a Walking, Talking Corpse and Pinocchio Dies
In the very first version of Pinocchio, the marionette is punished by
death for being such a naughty boy. Pinocchio teases Gepetto
mercilessly and runs away, Gepetto chases him but is caught by a police
officer who throws the old man in prison, believing he is abusing the
puppet. When Pinocchio returns to Gepetto’s house he meets a hundred
year old cricket who tells him naughty boys turn into donkeys. Pinocchio
throws a hammer at the cricket and kills it.
Pinocchio ends up nearly getting burned as fire wood, he then bites
off an evil cat’s paw and meets a beautiful blue haired fairy who tells
him she is dead and waiting for people to take her body away. Pinocchio
then gets hung from a tree by the cat with the mutilated paw and the
cat’s companion the fox, and they watch as Pinocchio suffocates to
death. The End.
The editors weren’t too happy with this ending, so the author added a
second part to the story. Here, the beautiful dead fairy rescues
Pinocchio and they start living together, but Pinocchio takes up his
wicked ways again and eventually turns into a donkey. He is sold to the
circus, where he goes lame.
Pinocchio is then brought by a musician, who desires to kill him,
skin him, and turn him into a drumhead. The musician ties rocks to the
donkey’s neck and lowers him into the ocean to drown. As he drowns, fish
eat the flesh off his bones, and the wooden marionette skeleton is
left. Pinocchio swims away, but is swallowed by a giant shark, in whose
stomach he finds Gepetto sitting at a table trying to eat live fish
which keep wriggling out of his mouth. After they escape, Pinocchio
busies himself with caring for Gepetto, and eventually as a reward for
being a good lad, looking after his father and working hard, he is
rewarded by being turned into a real boy.
9
Dismemberment in Aladdin
Original: Cassim Gets Dismembered
Who the hell is Cassim you ask? Cassim is Aladdin’s long lost father
in Disney’s direct-to-video third Aladdin movie; Aladdin and the King of
Thieves. In the movie, Cassim, who is the leader of the infamous Gang
of Forty Thieves, gives up his wicked ways to attend Aladdin and
Jasmines long awaited wedding. Some concepts for the movie were inspired
by Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a tale from 1001 Nights.
In the original version, Ali Baba learns the secret words into and
out of the Forty Thieves magical secret treasure trove. Ali Baba reveals
the words to his brother Cassim, who rushes to the trove to greedily
collect as much gold as he can carry. In his excitement though, he
forgets the magic words to get out of the cave. The thieves return, find
Cassim and kill him. They divide his corpse into quarters and place the
dismembered portions outside the opening of their cave as a warning to
future robbers.
When Ali Baba discovers the macabre warning sign, he collects the
portions of his brothers’ body and carries them home with him. He asks a
slave girl, Morgiana, to make it look as if Cassim died of natural
causes. Morgiana finds a skilled tailor, who expertly sews the pieces of
Cassim’s corpse back together. The thieves discover where Ali Baba
lives, but the slave girl ends up tricking them into killing two of
their own, and she kills the rest by pouring boiling oil into the jars
where they are hiding. The leader is the only one left, and Morgiana
stabs him to death during dinner at Ali Baba’s house. Now that’s one
loyal slave!
8
Murderous Cinderella
Original: Cinderella Kills Her Step-Mother
By now, most of us know about the Grimm’s version of Cinderella,
where the Prince spreads tar on the palace steps in the hopes that
Cinderella will get stuck as she tries to flee. His plan fails however,
and only her shoe is left sticking in the tar. Her sisters, who are
“beautiful but black of heart” both attempt to fool the Prince into
marrying them. One sister slices off her big toe so that she may fit the
slipper, the other slices off her own heel. Their deceit is unmasked
when Cinderella’s enchanted birds point out the blood on their stockings
to the Prince. The sister’s eyes are pecked out as punishment for their
cruelty and deceit. Though this is an excellent version of Cinderella,
this is not the version Disney actually based their movie on.
Disney’s Cinderella was based on a very tame story by Charles
Perrault, published 1697. Perrault’s version plays out almost exactly
like the Disney version. However, both Perrault’s and Grimm’s versions
contain elements from The Cat Cinderella, published in 1634, by
Giambattista Basile. Though tame for a Basile fairy tale, it is worth
noting that in this version, Cinderella confides in her seemingly kind
Governess about the cruelty of her step-mother. The Governess tells
Cinderella that to fix her problem she will need to kill her step-mother
by slamming the lid of a large wooden chest down on her step-mothers
throat, which will break her neck.
Cinderella must then convince her father to marry the Governess.
Cinderella kills her step-mother and the marriage goes ahead. It turns
out though that the Governess was hiding her own seven beautiful
daughters out of sight, and when she produces them, Cinderella’s father
loses interest in his own daughter. They all start to mistreat
Cinderella, abusing her and calling her names, and she is sent to the
kitchens to work as a servant (she is now given the name ‘Cat
Cinderella’. previously her name was Zezolla). The rest of the story
carries like a traditional Cinderella tale, and actually has a happy
ending all round, but it’s nice to know that Cinderella wasn’t always so
innocent.
7
Sleeping Beauty Sleeps Amongst Corpses
Original: Sleeping Beauty Slumbers Amongst Hundreds of Rotting Corpses Trapped in a Briar Hedge
In the Brothers Grimm tale of Briar Rose, a wise woman curses the
baby princess so that in her fifteenth year she will prick her finger on
a spindle and fall down dead. Another wise woman weakens the curse so
that, instead of dying, the princess will fall asleep for a hundred
years. Surely enough, in her fifteenth year, the girl pricks her finger
and falls into a deathlike sleep, which quickly spreads throughout the
entire kingdom until even the flies on the wall slumber. A briar hedge
grows up around the castle and, over the years, hundreds of young men
from faraway lands try to make their way through the brambles to ‘gaze
upon’ the sleeping princess.
However the brambles are so thick that the young men get trapped in
the thorns and die slow miserable deaths. On the hundredth year a prince
rides by and the brambles turn into flowers and open for him because
the curse has finally run out. The prince finds the Sleeping Beauty and
kisses her as she awakens.
As mentioned in a previous Listverse list,
the Brothers Grimm took inspiration for Briar Rose from Sun, Moon and
Talia, written by Giambattista Basile. In this tale, a king rapes the
princess as she sleeps. She is impregnated and gives birth to twins. One
of the babies sucks the enchanted splinter from beneath her fingernail
and she awakens. The queen attempts to have the babies slaughtered and
fed to their father, and attempts to burn Talia alive, but the king
saves the day just in time, the queen is burned in Talia’s place, and
they all live happily ever after.
Original: Snow White is Tortured and Made into a Slave
In the brothers Grimm tale of Snow White, the evil Queen orders a
hunter to bring back Snow White’s lungs and liver as proof of the
Princess’s demise. The huntsman brings back the entrails of a pig and
the Queen, believing them to be the liver and lungs of Snow White,
greedily devours the glistening organs.
The Queen tries to kill Snow White three times: First she pulls Snow
Whites corset so tight that she passes out. Second she brushes Snow
Whites hair with a poisoned comb, which causes her to fall into a
deathlike sleep, the dwarfs remove the comb and she awakens. Finally,
the Queen poisons an apple which Snow White eats and apparently dies.
The dwarfs place her corpse in a glass coffin where a passing Prince
finds her and decides to take her home with him. As the coffin is moved,
the piece of apple falls from Snow Whites throat and she awakes. At the
wedding, the Queen is put into red hot iron shoes and made to dance
until she dies.
Grimm’s borrowed ideas for their tale of Snow White from a story
called The Young Slave, written by Giambattista Basile in 1634. In this
story, a baby is cursed to die in her seventh year by a fairy. When the
girl turns seven, her mother is combing her hair and the comb becomes
lodged in the girl’s skull, apparently killing her. The mother places
the girl into seven crystal coffins, placed one inside the other, and
locks her in a chamber in the castle. The mother eventually dies of
grief, and entrusts the key to the chamber to her brother, telling him
never to unlock the door. The brother’s wife gets hold of the key, opens
the door, and finds a beautiful young woman inside the glass coffins
(the girl continued to grow as she slept).
The wife thinks her husband is keeping the girl locked in the room to
have sex with her, so drags her out by her hair, which dislodges the
comb and breaks the spell. The wife cuts of the girl’s hair off and
whips her bloody with the tresses. She then makes the girl her slave and
beats her daily, giving her black eyes and making her mouth so bloody
it looks as though she’s been “eating raw pigeons.” The young woman
decides to kill herself but as she is sharpening the blade she tells her
story to a doll. Her uncle overhears and the plot is revealed. He sends
his wife away, gets medical attention for his niece, and then marries
her off to a rich man.
4
Hercules Self-Immolation
Original: Hercules Burned Himself Alive
Zeus, God of the sky, disguises himself as a man called Amphitryon.
Why? So Zeus could have sex with Alcmene, Amphitryon’s hot wife! Zeus
impregnates Alcmene after raping her. The real Amphitryon has sex with
Alcmene the same night and also impregnates her, thus, she is pregnant
with two babies both from different fathers! (This is physically possible incidentally.)
One of the twins (Zeus’s son) is Heracles (this was the original
spelling, which means “Glory of Hera.” He was given this name pretty
much just to annoy Hera).
When Heracles grows up he becomes a great warrior and marries the
beautiful princess Megara. They have two beautiful babies whom Heracles
then slaughters when he is driven into temporary madness by Hera. Some
mythologies say Heracles also killed Megara, others say he gave her to
Iolaus, who was not only Heracles nephew, but also his young lover!
(Heracles was a symbol of sexual prowess, having love affairs with
multiple men and women.)
Later, when the centaur Nessus tries to rape Heracles fourth wife
Deianeira, Heracles shoots him with arrows poisoned with the blood of
the Hydra. As he dies, Nessus tells Deianeira to collect his spilled
blood and semen and use it as a love potion. When Deianeira eventually
begins to worry about Heracles faithfulness, she smears the potion onto a
sacrificial tunic which Heracles then dons.
The venom of the Hydra (which entered Nessus’s blood when the
poisoned arrow pierced him) begins to burn Heracles skin and he tears
the shirt off but his skin rips off as well, exposing his bones.
Deianeira hangs herself in horror. To end his excruciating agony,
Heracles has a funeral pyre built and his friend Philoctetes lights the
fire. Heracles burns himself alive, but instead of dying, the immortal
part of his body is left after his human flesh burns away and Heracles
returns to Olympus as an immortal, reconciles with Hera and presumably
lives happily ever after.
3
Fox and the Hound Deaths
Original: The Fox and the Hound: They All Die Miserably
Copper hates Chief; a younger, faster hunting dog who is taking
Coppers place in the pack. After Chief saves their Master from an
attacking bear during a hunt, Coppers hate and jealousy grow steadily
stronger. The Master heaps praise on Chief but ignores Copper, who
cowered in fear when the bear attacked. Tod is a fox who delights in
taunting the chained dogs and driving them into a frenzy. One day Chief
breaks his chain and trails Tod. Tod leads the dog onto a railroad track
and Chief is hit by a train and killed. The Master swears vengeance and
trains Copper to ignore all other foxes except Tod.
Tod meets an older vixen and they have a litter, but the Master and
Copper find the den and gas the baby foxes. The vixen is then caught in a
leg trap and killed.
Tod meets another vixen and has more babies, but again his family is
slaughtered by the Master. One winter, there is a rabies outbreak among
the foxes, who are now scavengers. One of the infected foxes attacks a
group of human children and the Master puts poison out to try and kill
as many foxes as possible. A human child eats the poison and dies.
Tod escapes many more attempts on his life, but one day Copper hunts
Tod so relentlessly that Tod drops dead of exhaustion. Copper is almost
dead himself, but the Master nurses him back to health. They enjoy some
new found popularity, but the Master starts drinking again and
eventually ends up having to go into a nursing home. The master takes
his shotgun and shoots Copper dead, weeping as he does so. The End.
2
Torture and Death in the Hunchback
Original: Quasimodo Gets Tortured, Esmeralda Gets Tortured and then Everybody Dies
Frollo doesn’t try to drop the deformed baby down a well like in the
Disney movie. In Victor Hugo’s dark original Frollo actually rescues the
baby from being burned alive by four women who think it is a demon.
Frollo adopts the baby and names him Quasimodo. Frollo is eventually
driven mad with lust to dominate a beautiful fifteen year old gypsy girl
called Esmeralda and makes Quasimodo kidnap her.
Quasimodo is caught in the act and arrested by the handsome soldier
Phoebus, whom Esmeralda falls in love with. Quasimodo is publicly
tortured and left exposed in the pillory. Phoebus (who’s already engaged
but he’s a total slut) arranges a ‘private rendezvous’ between him and
Esmeralda, but Frollo pays Phoebus to let him hide in the shadows and
spy on them. Esmeralda, overcome by lust, gives up her vow of chastity
to Phoebus, who gets right down to business. Overcome with jealousy,
Frollo emerges from the shadows, stabs Phoebus in the back and flees
into the night. Esmeralda is charged with the attempted murder, tortured
into giving a false confession in a subterranean dungeon, and sentenced
to hang.
Quasimodo rescues her as she is led to the gibbet and hides her in
Notre Dame, where Frollo tries to rape her. After Quasimodo again
intervenes, Frollo gives Esmeralda up and there is a brief and bloody
battle during which Frollo tells her he will rescue her if she will
‘give her love’ to him. She refuses and he hands her over to the troops.
Frollo watches as Esmeralda is executed, and laughs hysterically as she
writhes at the end of the rope. Quasimodo then throws Frollo from the
heights of Notre Dame.
Quasimodo then crawls into the crypt where the corpses of executed
criminals are left to rot and wraps himself around Esmeralda’s decaying
cadaver. Eventually their two skeletons are found, wrapped in an eternal
embrace.
1
Pocahontas Raped and Killed
Original: Pocahontas was Kidnaped, Raped and Murdered
The two Disney movies about the curvaceous, scantily-clad Native
Indian beauty are based on sterilized and falsified English accounts of
the early history of the Virginia Colony. Pocahontas was only around ten
years old when Smith first made contact with the Powhetans. It is true
that he was captured by the tribe, but in his original account of the
event Smith relates that he was treated very kindly. It wasn’t until
many years later, when Pocahontas’s name became known in England, that
Smith fabricated the story about her rescuing him from execution.
When Pocahontas was seventeen, she was captured by the English and
held for ransom. Her husband Kokoum was killed and Pocahontas was raped
repeatedly and consequently impregnated. She was forcefully converted to
Christianity, baptized Rebecca, and quickly married off to an English
tobacco farmer named John Rolfe to make the pregnancy appear legitimate.
In 1615 the Rolfe’s travelled to England and Pocahontas was laced into a
corset and presented to the public as a ‘symbol of the tamed Virginia
savage’.
After two years in England the Rolfe’s had begun their journey home
to Virginia when Pocahontas suddenly started to vomit violently after
dinner, she then began to convulse. Before they had even sailed off the
river Thames Pocahontas had died, horribly and painfully. English
historical accounts are ‘unsure of the cause of death’, speculating that
she may have succumbed to pneumonia, tuberculosis, or even smallpox.
However, in their book The True Story of Pocahontas; The Other Side of History
Linwood Custalow and Angela L. Daniel postulate that during her time in
England, Pocahontas learned of the English intentions to obliterate the
Native Indian Tribes and forcefully take their lands. Afraid that
Pocahontas might reveal their political strategies, her murder was
swiftly plotted and she was poisoned before she could reach home and
report what she had learned. Pocahontas was only twenty-two years old
when she died.
Melita Linaker
Melita is a 24-year-old 100% authentic home-grown
Kiwi. She is an obsessive fairy tale fanatic and a social hermit who
loves nature. Passionate about all things mysterious, she enjoys reading
and writing about the bizarre, the unexplained, the macabre and the
fantastical.
I would like to welcome everyone to the stunning truth about fairytale. I am deeply indebted to the LISTVERSE blog of Jamie Frater and to my friend Nicole Corpus. My optimum gratification from both of you.
Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins
Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and
gruesome twists and endings. These days, companies like Disney have
sanitized them for a modern audience that is clearly deemed unable to
cope, and so we see happy endings everywhere. This list looks at some
of the common endings we are familiar with – and explains the original
gruesome origins. If you know of any others, be sure to mention it in
the comments – or if you know of a fairy tale that is just outright
gruesome (in its original or modern form), speak up.
10
The Pied Piper
In the tale of the Pied Piper, we have a village overrun with rats. A
man arrives dressed in clothes of pied (a patchwork of colors) and
offers to rid the town of the vermin. The villagers agree to pay a vast
sum of money if the piper can do it – and he does. He plays music on
his pipe which draws all the rats out of the town. When he returns for
payment – the villagers won’t cough up so the Pied Piper decides to rid
the town of children too! In most modern variants, the piper draws the
children to a cave out of the town and when the townsfolk finally agree
to pay up, he sends them back. In the darker original, the piper leads
the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who
couldn’t keep up). Some modern scholars say that there are connotations
of pedophilia in this fairy tale.
9
Little Red Riding Hood
The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with
Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But
in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale
was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well bred
young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the
way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the
wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no
woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood.
The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers.
8
The Little Mermaid
The 1989 version of the Little Mermaid might be better known as “The
big whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the
mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in
a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very
first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince
marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to
stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the
sea and dies by turning to froth. Hans Christian Andersen modified the
ending slightly to make it more pleasant. In his new ending, instead of
dying when turned to froth, she becomes a “daughter of the air” waiting
to go to heaven – so, frankly, she is still dead for all intents and
purposes.
7
Snow White
In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen
asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead,
the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of
a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this
tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the
original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs –
which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original,
Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he
carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the
prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your
imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen
being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!
6
Sleeping Beauty
In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep
when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred
years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They
fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after.
But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read
this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep
because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a
prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather
fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to
two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her
finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep.
She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
5
Rumpelstiltskin
This fair tale is a little different from the others because rather
than sanitizing the original, it was modified by the original author to
make it more gruesome. In the original tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins
straw into gold for a young girl who faces death unless she is able to
perform the feat. In return, he asks for her first born child. She
agrees – but when the day comes to hand over the kid, she can’t do it.
Rumpelstiltskin tells her that he will let her off the bargain if she
can guess his name. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so
she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never
to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little
messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep
into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half.
Needless to say this kills him.
4
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
In this heart warming tale, we hear of pretty little goldilocks who
finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their
food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the
littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep – she
awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which
actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first,
the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the
second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized
version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story
ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was
arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”.
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Hansel and Gretel
In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two
little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their
way to a gingerbread house which belongs to a wicked witch. The
children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for
eating. They figure their way out and throw the witch in a fire and
escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost
Children), instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil
is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel)
but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the
children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The
children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s
wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat
and escape.
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The Girl Without Hands
Frankly, the revised version of this fairy tale is not a great deal
better than the original, but there are sufficient differences to
include it here. In the new version, a poor man is offered wealth by
the devil if he gives him whatever is standing behind his mill. The
poor man thinks it is an apple tree and agrees – but it is actually his
daughter. The devil tries to take the daughter but can’t – because she
is pure, so he threatens to take the father unless the daughter allows
her father to chop off her hands. She agrees and the father does the
deed. Now – that is not particularly nice, but it is slightly worse in
some of the earlier variants in which the young girl chops off her own
arms in order to make herself ugly to her brother who is trying to rape
her. In another variant, the father chops off the daughter’s hands
because she refuses to let him have sex with her.
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Cinderella
In the modern Cinderella fairy tale we have the beautiful Cinderella
swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying
two lords – with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has
its origins way back in the 1st century BC where Strabo’s heroine was
actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to
the modern one with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin
coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation
by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off
parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper –
hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two
pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the
rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge
about in luxury at the prince’s castle.
Contributor: JFrater
Jamie Frater
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fascinated with all things morbid and bizarre.
