+540 The original stories from the Brothers Grimm are actually a bit shocking, especially when you've only known the Disney versions, like how Pocohontas actually dies in England from syphilis because she was forced to prostitute herself instead having a happily ever after, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh God.. One childhood story ruined.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Tell me about it. When my history teacher told me this I was shocked.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, seems that some teachers are intent on spoiling precious childhood stories and memories.. Oh history teachers and their factuality D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh yeah, and in the original version of sleeping beauty, the first thing the king does when he wakes up is rape his daughter.. while she's still asleep. :u

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Pocahontas is not from the Brothers Grimm. It's a Native American story whereas the Grimms were German story collectors.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its not really a story because she was real.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh yeah, i forgot! thank you!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and actually what happened was that she died because of pneumonia or something else that had to do with the lungs

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@650991 (Danica): Yeah I just realized that Pochontas isn't from the brother's grimm, sorry about that ! But nonetheless, the other stories that really are from them are shocking lol.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

umm...you make it sound like pocohontas was a brothers grimm story..just btw..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a few really disturbing fairytales from when I was a kid. In the 3 Little Pigs, the pigs cooked and ate the wolf. And in Snow White, the evil queen had to dance in shoes of molten lead until she died.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also in Snow White didn't Snow White die from being smothered by an enchanted corset (I remember it being pretty gory, intestines spewing and whatnot)?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And they all lived happily, ever after, except for Pocohontos. The end. Sounds pretty solid to me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is that what actually happenned!?!? :(:(:(:(:(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well I mean its not really anybodies fault for ruining Pocahontas since thats how it ended in real life. She wasn't some made up princess.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also Pocahontus was 11 years old and John Smith was in his 50s/60s. So they weren't lovers either. My history teacher told me this and everyone started freaking out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ariel was ripped limb from limb by her sisters, I believe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was reading up on it and actualy well her tail got ripped in two from the potion and the prince was like going to marry someone else and she ends up disolving haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

She died and turned to sea foam coz the prince married someone else.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Cinderella's step sisters cut bits off their feet to try and get the slipper on.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh yeah, I think I read that in the German version of Cinderella (Aschenputtel).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHAT!?!?!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In the Hunchback of Notre Dame novel, he dies and Esmerelda dies as well. But Disney thought it was too sad ;p

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Esmeralda actually gets hanged :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think Aladdin was a story from the Brothers Grimm, but it actually took place in Muslim China, and the princess was Asian.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

aladdin was an iraqi or middle eastern story not a chinese one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin It's a middle eastern folk tale that took place in China. derp.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Iraq? It was definitely middle eastern,I think Jordan.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Alddin was from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights a collection of stories from the Islamic Golden Age. Fun fact, Princess Jasmine's orginal name was Princess Badroulbadour, but I call her Beyonce for short

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What are you smoking? "101 Arabian Nights". It took place in Saudi Arabia. Where else would you have a Sultan?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just read a biography on Pocahontas in my American Women's history class (studying for my history minor) & pocahontas was a real girl, she married John Rolf, travelled to England & died there of a European disease (probably smallpox) when she was only 19. She wasn't a whorem the other Native Americans who travelled with her got sick and a majority of them died as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ariel's tongue gets cut out, its not a magic potion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's right. So there's no chance of her EVER getting her voice back. And hers give their hair to the witch so they can go up and give Ariel the knife to kill the prince. But she can't do it, so she dies.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The Grimm brothers fairy tales were originally intended for drunken men in taverns. It was for entertainment. Hence the gore the innuendoes and such.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It was actually a collection of stories that had been passed down for generations through families that had never gotten written. They were story collectors. If the stories were intended for drunk men in taverns, there would have been WAAAAYYYY more sex.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Holy shit O.O All of this information pretty much killed my childhood.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I really hope you don't REALLY think that Pocahontas was written by the brothers grimm...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

actually, the grimm stories were written to educate children

by Anonymous 13 years ago