5 fairytales that have dark and disturbing origins
Fairytales are feel-good, often nostalgic of the happiness of childhood. But a surprising amount of these seemingly innocent tales have tragic backstories. Taken and adapted into the movies and stories we know today, origins of some fairytales are anything but happy ever after. Here are five of your favorite fairytales, and the frightening fables that inspired them. In The Little Mermaid , Ariel was felt as though she was walking on knives In the movie most people know and love, Ariel ended up marrying Prince Eric, and living happy ever after on land. But, in the original tale told by Hans Christian Andersen, each step on the legs she got from the sea witch felt like she was walking on knives, and she bled a lot. If the prince ended up marrying someone else, she would die and evaporate into sea foam. Of course, he did, and so the little mermaid died. Rapunzel become a homeless mother of two, and Flynn Rider was pushed off of her tower T...
