Dark Origins of Disney Fairy

Tales
ruining your childhood
The Little Mermaid
Disney version: Ariel can keep her legs, has her voice
back and marries Prince Eric.
The Little Mermaid
Original version by Hans Christian Andersen
The prince falls in love with another woman
The mermaid has to kill him
She can’t do it so she turns into sea foam
Tangled
Disney version: Rapunzel runs away with Flynn Rider,
finds out she is a long lost princess and defeats her evil
stepmother.
Rapunzel
Original version by Grimm Brothers
Rapunzel’s farmer parents exchange her as a baby for
some food with a witch
Rapunzel and a prince becomes a couple before they run
away and wants to get married
The witch throws the prince out the window and is
blinded by thorns
The prince spends months in the woods when he hears
Rapunzel’s voice and she heals him with her magic tears
He finds out Rapunzel has two children from him
Cinderella
Disney version: Cinderella marries the prince and they
live happily ever after.
Cinderella
Original version by
Charles Perrault (most
famous)
The stepsisters cut theirs
toes off when their feet
don’t fit in the glass shoe
At the wedding they are
blinded by pigeons
The Sleeping Beauty
Disney version: Aurora pricks her finger and falls
asleep. A prince wakes her up with a kiss.
Aurora
 Original version by Giambattista Basile
 The prince gets Aurora pregnant and leaves because he’s
married
 Aurora is waken up with the birth of her twins
 The prince’s wife tries to kill her bit she marries the prince
Beauty and the Beast
Disney version: Belle saves the beast with a romantic
kiss and the beast turns back into a prince
Beauty and the Beast
Original version by
Gabrielle-Suzanne
Barbot de Villeneuve
Belle wants to visit her
stepsisters
They get envious and
convince Belle to stay
longer than she’s allowed
to
The beast devours Belle
Peter Pan
Disney version: Peter escapes with Wendy and they go
to Neverlands and defeat Capitain Hook with the Lost
Boys.
Peter Pan
Several original versions
Wendy falls in love with Peter but he doesn’t feel the
exact same thing towards her
Peter Pan is dead
Tinker Bell convinces one of the Lost Boys that Wendy
is a bird and makes him shoot her with an arrow.
Wendy doesn’t die but the boy wants Peter to kill him
because he feels guilty
Peter Pan kills the Lost Boys when they grow up
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGoqGKeVxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWMqNhVTD8