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Wildesheer9876 wrote: Roacher27 wrote: I heard a version where ravens swooped down and pecked the stepsisters to death, while the stepmother escaped and locked herself inside the house. Then Cinderella killed her. That stepmother part is right and the stepsisters part is correct that originally happened and the stepsisters cut their toes off in a attempt to fit in the slipper.

Here are some more gruesome things about Fairy Tales you usually don't hear.

1. While Sleeping Beauty was sleeping she was raped and when she awakes she has twins.

2. Red Riding Hood ate her grandmother and then the wolf eats Riding Hood

3. Goldilocks was originally a hag and there are two different endings to it. One she breaks her neck while running from the bears and the other is she is arrested

4. The frog didn't turn into a prince by a kiss, but by throwing it against a wall, burning it, and decapitating it

5. Rumplestiltskin rips himself in half even though that is in the episode quote in Nameless

6. Originally the mermaid in the Little Mermaid has her tongue and fins cut off in exchange for legs. Then the prince marries someone and she dissolves into sea foam.

7. The prince tries to kill himself after Rapunzel loses her hair. Instead he just becomes blind and wanders around eating grass.

8. Hansel and Gretel were sent into the wilderness to die so food could be saved during a famine.

9. The queen in Snow White is forced to dance in a pair of red-hot iron shoes until she eventually dies

10. And another Cinderella twist where Cinderella's father tries to marry her, but she was able to escape that fate

There is a reason that parents never told their kids the original story. Because the kids would probably have nightmares.

I still can't believe these are true. I guess those Brothers Grimm had some messed up thoughts. In that case, the grandmother was perfectly reasonable telling Wu her stories. They sound innocent.