The Dark and Gruesome Origins of Fairy Tales

Classic fairy tales were never the wholesome stories Disney sold us. In this episode we dig into the original dark and gruesome versions of 10 of the most famous ones — kids drowning, wolves eating girls, queens dancing to death in red-hot iron shoes, and far worse.

We cover the real Pied Piper, Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Some of these origins are legitimately disturbing.

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0:3535 secondswelcome to another episode of the worst of the best podcast I'm your host with me today is my brother Jason Jason how you doing today I'm doing good how are
0:4444 secondsyou brother I'm doing fairly well fairy tales Jason do you remember we're jumping right into it eh well I mean what do you want to say I mean well you
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1:081 minute, 8 secondsthat we're doing okay and all that good stuff yeah so we're doing fairy tale Today Jason and fairy tales of course have been around forever and I think
1:151 minute, 15 secondspeople basically know that the fairy tales that we see today are here today or read today
1:211 minute, 21 secondsare sanitized updated versions of old I think most people would know that but I don't think everyone actually knows the
1:301 minute, 30 secondsreal or the original fairy tale stories would you say that's accurate yeah and I would suspect most stories and legends
1:381 minute, 38 secondsand myths they're passed down from generations to generations and generations and they morph over time
1:451 minute, 45 secondsthey change over time I mean our own lives do that right we retell our fishing stories or whatever and things
1:511 minute, 51 secondschange as uh as the years go on the details change so yeah I would suspect those same stories change over time as
1:591 minute, 59 secondswell uh we know we know stories of course we're going to talk about them every fairy tale or that we bring up you'll be like oh yeah I know that story
2:072 minutes, 7 secondsand I would say for me personally yeah I admit it's the Disney Vibe versions I know or just the sanitized versions from my childhood I think I'm really excited
2:152 minutes, 15 secondswell sorry I should say I am really excited to share with the audience and of course with each other the true Origins some of them are pretty dark and
2:242 minutes, 24 secondsgruesome that's the title of this episode dark and gruesome Origins to these are fairy tales and the idea behind fairy tales back in the day was
2:312 minutes, 31 secondsto teach children of course stranger danger essentially but what I loved about these olden times is they talk about the dangers of this or being
2:392 minutes, 39 secondsdisrespectful to your parents or whatever it might be I love how kids died we'll get to these stories when they didn't they didn't pull any punches
2:472 minutes, 47 secondsyeah you know hey if you do this you'll get your end Trails pulled out of you it's funny how we use the threat of well
2:542 minutes, 54 secondsI guess in these stories like the threat of death to stop them from behaving a particular way will scare you into comply
3:073 minutes, 7 secondsall right so these are the best fairy tales quite frankly I think these are the top ten I mean there's many fairy
3:143 minutes, 14 secondstales out there there's many stories children's stories so we'll get to each one so I think each one would fall into the category of the best known you know so this is the best known
3:233 minutes, 23 secondsmost popular type fairy tales that we've heard over the years the Jason I independent of each other at the end of the episode we'll pick what we think is
3:303 minutes, 30 secondsI think for this one which one do you think is maybe the most gruesome so which one is the worst which one is truly the worst of these best origin
3:393 minutes, 39 secondsstories we'll go with that right now yeah we'll see which one maybe disturbs us the most so it is the worst but these are the best dark and gruesome origin
3:473 minutes, 47 secondsstories of fairy tales okay the first one Jason the Pied Piper now this one I kind of knew a little bit about its dark history Jay imagine a small town
3:543 minutes, 54 secondsinfested with rats and the townspeople are desperate to get rid of them that's fair right so suddenly a man appears dressed in color for clothes and he's
4:024 minutes, 2 secondsknown as the Pied Piper he offers to help the town get rid of the rats in exchange for a large sum of money makes sense right the town's infested rats
4:104 minutes, 10 secondscall the Exterminator we expect that the people should pay the Exterminator I think that's a fair exchange the towns people agree and the Piper plays his
4:174 minutes, 17 secondsmagical pipe to lure the rats out of the town with a captivating tune but when the piper returns to collector's payment
4:244 minutes, 24 secondsthe towns people refuse to pay him in Revenge the Pied Piper decides to take something even more precious from them they're children in most versions of the
4:334 minutes, 33 secondsstory The Pied Piper leads the children to a cave outside of town but in the original darker version he leads them to a river where they all drown except for
4:424 minutes, 42 secondsa lame boy who can't keep up foreign I'd like to know the story of that lame
4:514 minutes, 51 secondsboy and what he does with the rest of his life does he have that remorse yeah survivors everybody dies in a plane crash except for one person they like feel guilty that they didn't die with
5:005 minuteseverybody else I I just love that image the pied Pipers playing this magical too and all the kids are skipping out you know they're skipping listening to their music of the Pied Piper you get a little
5:085 minutes, 8 secondsTimmy on his crutches but he's still digging the music though he's like digging the music but he can't
5:165 minutes, 16 secondsquite he can hear it like it goes painter how far do they travel at some point he gets out of earshot of the Pied Piper
5:255 minutes, 25 secondsmaybe that's how he's yeah he got out of your shot he couldn't hear it anymore so he breaks the spell is broken from Timmy but this Pied Piper I love how he leads
5:335 minutes, 33 secondshim into the river like a bunch of lemmings that's fantastic so in the originals I don't remember the story as well as you do the cave what did he do
5:405 minutes, 40 secondswith them in the cave maybe putting them in the cave and then the townspeople were like where are our children he says well give me the money I'll give them back to you probably something like that
5:485 minutes, 48 secondsthat some models also suggest that there may be a deeper darker meaning to the pied Piper's actions there's hints of maybe a possibility of pedophilia in the
5:585 minutes, 58 secondsstory making that truly haunting disturbing tale now I don't want to dig too deep into that I want to be careful with my Google machine I mean sure sure
6:056 minutes, 5 secondsthat could be the Cave Story who knows Jared from Subway was in the cave I don't know yeah there you go that's the origin story there so at least the
6:136 minutes, 13 secondsoriginal origin story Pied Piper led the children to a river and drowned the kids you know if you ask for a service and that person provides the service I would
6:236 minutes, 23 secondssuggest pay for it honest day is Labor honest days Pace Pied Piper escalated things a little quickly that escalated quickly yeah what do you think of the
6:316 minutes, 31 secondsmessage of the tale so that lesson is more for adults than it is for the children I mean something to learn when they get older like this is a lesson I
6:386 minutes, 38 secondsdon't have my kids drown by some magical Pied Piper so if I pay someone to build me a home in whatever town they lived in back in the day you know you better pay
6:466 minutes, 46 secondsthe construction workers I think it's a fair list I like that one sure well next on the list is Little Red Riding Hood so we all know the story Little Red Riding
6:546 minutes, 54 secondsHood a girl on her way to visit her sick grandmother who is swallowed whole by a Wicked Wolf but did you know the original French
7:027 minutes, 2 secondsversion of the tale by Charles Perrault was much more sinister in this version Red Riding Hood is well
7:107 minutes, 10 secondsbred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks for directions to her grandmother's house
7:177 minutes, 17 secondsignoring the warning signs Red Riding Hood follows the wolf's advice and ends up being devoured by the deceitful
7:247 minutes, 24 secondscreature no heroic Woodsman no grandmother just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood this chilling story
7:337 minutes, 33 secondsholds an important lesson you know before we get to the lesson of the story I like stories or a movie that suggests
7:417 minutes, 41 secondsa legitimate ending to the story that not everything has a happy ending not everything works out in the favor of the
7:507 minutes, 50 secondslead actor or or whatever I appreciate the ending of the original story those who join late I apologize the link I
7:577 minutes, 57 secondssent out I guess wasn't very good so really quickly to recap we are doing dark origin fairy tale stories we've already covered Pied Piper and now we're
8:068 minutes, 6 secondson Red Riding Hood so Jay you asked me what was the question you did ask me about whatever oh yeah so I was talking about how I'm thankful that this story
8:138 minutes, 13 secondsdidn't have the Hollywood finish or the Polish finish where the bad guy the wolf goddess do justice Little Red Riding
8:228 minutes, 22 secondsHood was saved by The Wiz men just in time and killed the wolf I actually appreciate that and find that type of
8:308 minutes, 30 secondsending more satisfying and realistic I didn't have that polished ending that so many of her Hollywood movies have between the original and the one that we
8:398 minutes, 39 secondsgrew up listening to I kind of like right well that's goes for a lot of these I guess a lot of these origin stories for these original fairy tales is that the endings aren't yeah the
8:488 minutes, 48 secondsHollywood feel good stories this being Red Riding Hood gets devoured by the wolf like I I kind of like that where she's taking advice from a wolf which is
8:568 minutes, 56 secondsI guess this indicates some creepy kind of clever a wolf but why do you think she did I'm curious I wonder why she
9:049 minutes, 4 secondswell she's lost the woods or whatever and she's asking advice if you're lost in the city maybe go to a police station or a hospital to ask for directions
9:119 minutes, 11 secondsdon't go to the street corner careful who you get directions from is it the wolf is a dangerous creature it's a cunning creature it's it can look
9:199 minutes, 19 secondsharmless almost like a dog but it's a dangerous cutting creature she didn't ask directions from an owl right you know it if you're going to really have to talk to a stranger because you're in
9:279 minutes, 27 secondsa bind find something that looks gentle that's the lesson I think don't talk to a wolf that's the old saying the wolf of sheep's clothing right so wolves are
9:359 minutes, 35 secondsdangerous they can be clever they're cunning Riding Hood ask for directions from the wolf to Grandma's house and he let her somewhere private yeah I mean
9:429 minutes, 42 secondsthe wolf killed her but there could be other implications to the story right of course Red Riding Hood's a female young girl a lot a lot of different things right yeah all right good stuff okay the
9:529 minutes, 52 secondsnext fairy tale is The Little Mermaid right away we think of Disney I didn't grow up listening about a little mermaid are you familiar with an original like
10:0010 minutesdid we grow up somebody reading a story about the little mermaid I don't think I think when The Little Mermaid came out as a film I think it was 89.90 I think
10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsit was one of the first the stream of Disney films Disney Animation was at a low point I think in the early 80s late
10:1410 minutes, 14 seconds70s it kind of stagnated and I think it was a little mermaid if I remember correctly that was kind of that
10:2210 minutes, 22 secondsrebranding or was it or was it the Lion King no actually I think it was Little Mermaid then I was being the Beast then it was Lion King but there was this real
10:3110 minutes, 31 secondsResurgence of Disney Animation I think it started with Little Mermaid anyway so I think when this movie came out no I don't think even when it came out when I was a teenager I said oh they're
10:3910 minutes, 39 secondsupdating but it was a original story so and trust me this one's no fishtail oh really I'm
10:4810 minutes, 48 secondsI'm intrigued actually okay we all know the Disney version where Ariel and Eric live happily ever after but did you know that the original story by Hans
10:5510 minutes, 55 secondsChristians that's who wrote it is a real doozy we're talking love triangles Revenge plots and even a knife-wielding
11:0211 minutes, 2 secondsmermaid it's like a soap opera Under the Sea so in the original tale our mermaid heroine Falls head over fins for a
11:0911 minutes, 9 secondsprince but when he marries someone else she's offered a knife to take revenge talk about a drama queen so instead of
11:1811 minutes, 18 secondstaking the violent route she decides however to end it all by turning into Sea Foam so she committed suicide oh
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsyeah so thankfully Anderson's softened the blow in this updated version where the mermaid becomes a daughter of the air and gets to hang out in heaven but still it's not exactly the fairy tale
11:3311 minutes, 33 secondsending we're used to it sounds like they kind of ripped off Romeo and Juliet a little bit so Romeo Juliet probably
11:4111 minutes, 41 secondswould be before the origin how far back does this mermaid story go when was
11:4711 minutes, 47 secondsShakespeare was he 1700s well he was before photographs were
11:5811 minutes, 58 secondstaken I can go back that for a boy I'm gonna guess he seems like a 1700s guy I was right David in her chest is 17th
12:0712 minutes, 7 secondscentury okay so 1600s okay anyway so the point being now one of his hands Christian answer writing fairy tales I don't know maybe around the same time I
12:1412 minutes, 14 secondsactually don't know let's just wait for somebody to Google it for us yeah yeah somebody just Google it for us but having said that he probably is ripping
12:2112 minutes, 21 secondsoff for Romeo and Juliet Juliet's relationship with the dude didn't work out and then she decides to commit
12:2812 minutes, 28 secondssuicide yeah suicide's usually not done in fairy tales very often the updated versions is there a lesson in this one like usually there's a moral what would
12:3612 minutes, 36 secondsbe the lesson in this that's a good question Red Riding Hood of course with strangers the Pied Piper was you know pay what you asked for you know pay for
12:4312 minutes, 43 secondsthe work given to you that's obvious Little Mermaid what would the angel species marriage is it bad I don't marry your dog yeah that's a good question
12:5212 minutes, 52 secondswhat would be I guess you could say the lesson could be that people love who they love and just because they don't love you but what's the purpose of
12:5912 minutes, 59 secondscommitting suicide to end well it's a tragic ending that's the whole point of this gruesome episode I think this lesson here is
13:0713 minutes, 7 secondsshe you know shouldn't have done that and the lesson to the child will be look if you fall in love with somebody that you can't marry you know or whatever be
13:1413 minutes, 14 secondswith don't end your life because then it's over and that's a horrible way to be so you can be I don't know like I guess don't commit suicide even though
13:2213 minutes, 22 secondsthat's what the mermaid did I don't know good question okay so Snow White is the next one here okay we got an update from
13:3013 minutes, 30 secondsDavid 16th century and he died oh 1616. wow you know those rumors that
13:3713 minutes, 37 secondshe didn't write what he you know have you heard that I'm sure there's ways to confess like you know maybe there's ghost writers pretending to be
13:4413 minutes, 44 secondsShakespeare but they write you know under maybe Shakespeare's name or people conglomerate stories they don't sure they don't know who the authors are
13:5213 minutes, 52 secondsnothing's clear-cut anymore no he even Shakespeare's not the author of his own work you got the moon landing and then you
14:0014 minutesgot Shakespeare yeah check out our Moonlighting episode everyone it's a great episode of moon landing episode keep on plugging old episodes okay sure
14:0714 minutes, 7 secondslet's talk a little bit about Snow White that is not the tale that is a sweet and innocent as Disney might have you believe you know these Disney took on
14:1614 minutes, 16 secondsthese fairy tales they did I didn't realize Snow White was a story that they adopted did you yes I think so I think
14:2514 minutes, 25 secondsyeah I would say yeah not to make you feel bad but I did know that any of those I think a lot of these Disney films I think the majority though wasn't
14:3214 minutes, 32 secondsuntil stuff like Pixar really entered the picture that they started to do kind of Their Own I had no idea like Toy Story and
14:4014 minutes, 40 secondsMonsters Inc and all these these early animation stuff a lot of them were just updated yeah updated fairy tales for Disney five children's audience yeah oh
14:4714 minutes, 47 secondsinteresting okay so the original story The Wicked Queen doesn't just want Snow White dead she wants her insides served
14:5614 minutes, 56 secondsup for dinner yeah she wanted liver and lungs on the menu fortunately the Huntsman can't bring himself to kill Snow White and brings back the heart of
15:0515 minutes, 5 secondsa boar instead in the original story Snow White doesn't wake up from a magical kiss like in the movie It's the prince's horse
15:1315 minutes, 13 secondsthat jostles her awake as he carries her to his castle and honestly we're all left wondering what the prince plan to
15:2115 minutes, 21 secondsdo with the dead girl's body so in the Grim so that's g-r-i-m-m the Grim version of the tale the queen is forced
15:2915 minutes, 29 secondsto dance to death in Red Hot Iron shoes okay that's kind of brutal yeah the prince does go to rescue her per se
15:3915 minutes, 39 secondsfinds her sleeping doesn't kiss her or he does kiss her and but it didn't work and she is only awakened by the Jocelyn
15:4715 minutes, 47 secondsof her being carried back and not through the kiss the magical kiss is there any moral to the story I don't know if there's one here I don't know if
15:5515 minutes, 55 secondsall these have morals I would I don't want to get too uh down that Wormhole necessarily I mean I don't know if every fairy tale has but the general idea of
16:0416 minutes, 4 secondsthese early fairy tales were to tell kids some sort of metaphorical lessons through grim and dark tales what would this one be um so the queen doesn't want
16:1316 minutes, 13 secondsjust Snow White dead she wants to eat her innards okay cool husband can't do it so she you know he brings her the heart of a boar I kind of like that he's
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondslike I can't kill her but then Snow White doesn't wake up from the kiss like in the movie She's jostled by the horse fair enough he's bringing the princess
16:2716 minutes, 27 secondsor snow white back to the castle maybe just to see you know they could wake her up there maybe but the queen
16:3516 minutes, 35 secondsshe's still breathing I love how the queen is forced to dance to death so she got what was coming to
16:4316 minutes, 43 secondsher so maybe the moral here is karma Karma yeah the queen got killed but I love the imagery the idea that she was
16:5116 minutes, 51 secondsforced to dance she was wearing red hot eye like they put these think about this they put these red hot iron shoes on her feet I love how the idea that she was
16:5816 minutes, 58 secondsdancing like there's I would just be rising and pain on the floor I don't know if I could get up and like do a jig oh you'll be forced to do that I'm
17:0617 minutes, 6 secondsalready in excruciating pain I'm not gonna get up and dance for you yeah the idea of those shoes I think that's the gruesome part I think as per our title
17:1317 minutes, 13 secondsof our episode that is a gruesome origin the queen though she was wicked well even the details of wanting to eat snow
17:2117 minutes, 21 secondswhite oh for sure yeah I think a lot of people get Snow White and Sleeping Beauty mixed up but they are two different things but
17:2817 minutes, 28 secondsthey're very similar stories so here's the original story Jason of Sleeping Beauty it's not the sweet fairy tale that you might have heard before so in
17:3717 minutes, 37 secondsthe original version our princess didn't fall into a deep Slumber because of a curse or some Wicked spell instead it was due to a prophecy it seems like the
17:4517 minutes, 45 secondsuniverse had other plans for her and she had to pay a price for it but that's not the worst part so you know on the classic version a handsome prince
17:5317 minutes, 53 secondsarrives to wake her up with the true love's kiss and they all live happily ever after well in the original version it's not quite the same thing you see
18:0118 minutes, 1 secondit's not a kiss that awakens the princess instead she is sexually assaulted by a king who just happens to pass by and sees her
18:1018 minutes, 10 secondssleeping this is actually Bill Cosby's favorite Bill Cosby's favorite fairy tale this is taught him actually this taught Bill
18:1718 minutes, 17 secondsCosby when he was a kid read me that story again so the king rapes the Sleeping Princess
18:2518 minutes, 25 secondswow and if that's not shocking enough she wakes up not to find her true love standing by her side but rather Define herself
18:3318 minutes, 33 secondspregnant with not one but two kids so she gave birth no she gave birth to kids at two different times one of her
18:4118 minutes, 41 secondschildren was sucking on her finger the kid was sucking on her finger for nourishment and in the process removed the piece of flax that was keeping her
18:4918 minutes, 49 secondsin Slumber so there was a piece of flax around her finger that was holding the curse keeping her asleep she delivered obviously this is a story not a true
18:5718 minutes, 57 secondsstory but somehow she delivered a couple kids by the king during her sleep so she wakes up yeah finds out she has a couple
19:0419 minutes, 4 secondskids wow yeah that one's brutal so what would be the lesson here don't take a drink from Cosby number one I think
19:1119 minutes, 11 secondsthat's just a nasty story I'm not sure there's really any lessons in this one well if you think about Sleeping Beauty I would assume back when this was written out you know that people drank
19:2019 minutes, 20 secondsalcohol and people might have dozed off and I would assume that people were sexually assaulted when they were look it happens today let's just be honest I
19:2819 minutes, 28 secondsmean people are saying men and women of course people are sexually assaulted and make poor choices if you're knocked out cold blackout drunk people have been
19:3519 minutes, 35 secondsassaulted and they're continuously assaulted I think daily this is a real thing old joking aside so I would suspect that then this also happens so this could have
19:4419 minutes, 44 secondsbeen a cautionary Tale specifically maybe to the ladies because men are often the ones who do the assaulting that hey don't get so drunk
19:5119 minutes, 51 secondsthat you don't know what's happened to you the problem that's probably what it is drunkenness yeah all right that's a a lesson to
20:0020 minutesto learn through a fairy tale not through life right so Rumpelstiltskin yeah this particular fairy tale takes a unique turn from the usual sanitized
20:0820 minutes, 8 secondsversions of folklore as it is the author himself who modified it to be more gruesome rumpelstilskin the notorious character
20:1720 minutes, 17 secondsis known for his ability to spin straw into gold the young girl in the story is faced with the daunting task of spinning straw into gold
20:2620 minutes, 26 secondsa rumpelstilskin offers to help her in exchange for her first born child the girl agrees but when the time comes to
20:3320 minutes, 33 secondshand over her child she cannot bear it apart with it Rumpelstiltskin then gives her a chance to guess his name as she does so correctly he will release her
20:4220 minutes, 42 secondsfrom the agreement the girl overhears Rumpelstiltskin singing his name by the fire and correctly guesses it causing him to become Furious and run away
20:5120 minutes, 51 secondsnever to be seen again so that's that's the original tale so there you go nothing really crazy or bad right you know that's okay now a couple things from the story though Rumpelstiltskin
21:0021 minutesnumber one why does he want to have a kid so bad come on man you're a bachelor you got all this gold see I always knew
21:0921 minutes, 9 secondsthat he was a little bit of Nefarious individual like he was a little bit but what do you want to do with the kid I didn't recall that he would want the
21:1721 minutes, 17 secondsgirl's baby do we find out whose baby that actually was like how was she pregnant I'm sure in the original yeah this is just an overview of the fairies
21:2421 minutes, 24 secondsyeah but so let's just say she got married or whatever so when she has the kid she gives it to Rumple and one thing we
21:3221 minutes, 32 secondsdon't know quite what rompo wants to do with the kid probably eat it I would suspect or something to that effect back in these fairy tales I'm just assuming
21:4021 minutes, 40 secondshe can make gold so he could literally buy a kid on the market back then let alone and then I love how he's singing and his name how many times have you
21:4821 minutes, 48 secondsever sung in your life Jason you say your name I am Ryan and I'm so fantastic my name is Ryan let's he's singing his
21:5621 minutes, 56 secondsname it's such a weird and she's like hey that's his name and how would she know that he's actually singing about so hit the song that he's singing not only
22:0422 minutes, 4 secondsincludes his name but references it as if it is him so the song has his name in it with identifying that me the singer
22:1322 minutes, 13 secondsthe song is thinking about myself yeah yeah well she gets correctly she figured it out so this is the one that's a little bit backwards so that was the original story but the updated version
22:2122 minutes, 21 secondsso it would be uh yeah so the updated version yeah it does take a darker tone rumpelstilkin's anger consumes him to
22:2922 minutes, 29 secondsthe point where he drives his right foot so deep into the ground that he becomes stuck in a desperate attempt to free
22:3622 minutes, 36 secondshimself he grabs his left leg and rips himself in half resulting in his death the gruesome ending is a far cry from
22:4522 minutes, 45 secondsthe sanitized versions of the fairy tales that we are used to but it serves as a reminder that folklore was not always meant to be a children's story
22:5322 minutes, 53 secondsthere you go so there's an example of maybe no real moral here for kids it's just a stand-alone mini tale like a
23:0223 minutes, 2 secondsStephen King type tale sure so he was such a strong guy then right he was able to slam his foot into the Earth so hard he got it stuck here's what's odd the
23:1123 minutes, 11 secondsphysics don't make sense because he's driven his leg into the ground so hard but he also has the strength to rip himself in half which is odd that he'd
23:2023 minutes, 20 secondsrip himself and have trying to pull his leg out why wouldn't his ankle just disengage from his leg why did his body rip a nap to the weakened part of the
23:2723 minutes, 27 secondstear was his the Torso and not his leg he's also so angry that he doesn't have a child from her what you can offer this
23:3623 minutes, 36 secondsto somebody else I wish I was his friend like dude look let's make some gold I'll show you a life that we can enjoy with gold just relax you don't want kids
23:4423 minutes, 44 secondsor kids ruin everything relax yeah he really wanted a kid yeah he did if I can't have a kid I'll kill myself yeah
23:5323 minutes, 53 secondsall right we all know I mean I don't think there's anyone here that doesn't know the story of Goldilocks and Three Bears this charming story we are introduced to the sweet and innocent
24:0224 minutes, 2 secondsGoldilocks who stumbles upon the home of the Three Bears now she enters their Abode she indulges herself in her food seating and bedding finally dozing off
24:1024 minutes, 10 secondsin the little Bear's bed however when the Bears return home she and find her slumbering she wakes up at a frenzy and makes a Quick Escape through the window
24:1724 minutes, 17 secondsthe original version of this tale which dates back to 1837 so it's actually not as old as I thought features two possible enemies both of which are quite gruesome and the first variation the
24:2624 minutes, 26 secondsBears find Goldilocks and of course rumpelstilts costell they tear her apart and the Devourer so I love it that's
24:3424 minutes, 34 secondslegit if a bear finds you in their home you're done in the second Goldilocks is portrayed as an old Hague who jumps out
24:4224 minutes, 42 secondsof the window in Terror just like in the sanitized version however the story concludes with the Revelation that the old had either broke her neck during the fall or was apprehended for vagrancy
24:5124 minutes, 51 secondssubsequently sent to the house of correction she's a homeless hag yeah yeah vacancy is well is vacancy that you're homeless necessary or and or that
24:5924 minutes, 59 secondsyou're just wandering aimlessly without a residency yes just so she was arrested for vagrancy the Bears press charges hey
25:0825 minutes, 8 secondsthis old hag broke into her house could you take care of her they're like yeah we got a three bears go back to your house Goldilocks uh either broke her neck went to jail or got torn apart the
25:1625 minutes, 16 secondsone I would like is just baby going to jail because eventually you get out I don't think vagrancy is a life sentence depends on how old the old hag is five
25:2425 minutes, 24 secondsyears could be a life sentence for somebody older in their years okay yeah so the story of Hansel and Gretel is beloved classic that tells of two young
25:3325 minutes, 33 secondssiblings who get lost in the woods and come across a gingerbread house owned by a wicked witch the children are held captive by the witch who plans to eat
25:4225 minutes, 42 secondsthem in a Darren escape the children push the witch into the oven and flee back into the home so in some ways this is kind of a gruesome ending but no one
25:5125 minutes, 51 secondsreally feels pity or no with the wicked witch being burned in the oven and died in the oven even the popular modern day
25:5925 minutes, 59 secondssanitized version of this tale that the witch did want to eat them because the kids were excited because the house is made out of candy so they're oh this is
26:0626 minutes, 6 secondsamazing being here the witch is like yes yes eat everything yes yes fill your bellies fill your bellies and she was preparing to eat them and preparing the kitchen to eat them and when they
26:1426 minutes, 14 secondsrealized that that's when they shoved her into the oven and slammed it but you're right we don't feel bad for the woods because she was going to self-defense on the kids part for sure yeah but in the original version of the
26:2326 minutes, 23 secondstale is a different name called The Lost Children it has a much dark yeah that's a that is a great title has a much
26:3026 minutes, 30 secondsdarker and gruesome ending the children encounter a devil inside of a witch the devil captures the children but they
26:3726 minutes, 37 secondsoutsmart him using their wits and trickery leading the devil to build a sawhorse to bleed one of the children kids in a surprising turn of events
26:4626 minutes, 46 secondsslash the throat of the devil's wife while she is demonstrating how to use the sawhorse and they make their escape
26:5326 minutes, 53 secondsthis version of the story is not for the faint of heart and highlights the darker nature of traditional fairy tales don't mess around with these kids these are
27:0127 minutes, 1 secondlike the Home Alone kid what's that kid's name again Macaulay Culkin he forget his name in the movie these were the original Macaulay Culkin's from Home
27:0827 minutes, 8 secondsAlone they weren't messing around they either way they either burnt The Witch alive or they slash the devil's wife's throat that's awesome we're not having
27:1627 minutes, 16 secondsany of this took matters in their own hand and they're like I like that one I don't really like that one in a real life situation you have to fight back or you're going to be consumed by whatever
27:2427 minutes, 24 secondsdanger you're eating because people at a certain point you can't go along with what's happening because you're dead either way so you must to fight and get
27:3227 minutes, 32 secondsyour way out I think I just thought the sanitized version I thought that was the original version it's just a dark story to begin with the idea that they were that's what I'm saying like when I was
27:4027 minutes, 40 secondssaying it earlier like it's a kind of a dark fairy tale anyways to begin with cool I I always enjoyed that one
27:4627 minutes, 46 secondsRapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair all right we all know that line so in the Grim version Rapunzel under Prince faced
27:5427 minutes, 54 secondsnumerous hardships before they could finally be together Rapunzel was banished by the angry witch who threw her out into the Wilderness while she was pregnant
28:0128 minutes, 1 secondmeanwhile the prince was blinded after falling from the tower and into the thorny brambles quite the Romantic tale isn't it but wait there's more the
28:1128 minutes, 11 secondsItalian version written by in 1600 takes an even darker turn this version of Rapunzel was sold to an ogre
28:1928 minutes, 19 secondsas a baby because her mother stole some parsley from a garden she was locked in a tower for her entire life and forced to give away her first
28:2728 minutes, 27 secondsborn child so Jason now the original story that inspired all versions of the fairy tale brace yourselves instead of
28:3428 minutes, 34 secondsan evil witch or ogre Rapunzel's captor was her own father her controlling father locked her up in a tower leading
28:4228 minutes, 42 secondsto her eventual demise so next time you hear the story of Rapunzel remember that the truth is often much darker than fiction and while we may enjoy the Whimsical version we know and love it's
28:5028 minutes, 50 secondsimportant to acknowledge the roots of the tale and the real life struggles that inspired it so what do you think the lesson there was I don't know the father locking her dog You could argue
28:5828 minutes, 58 secondssomething metaphorically again the father locking the child into the home maybe the fear of the father letting her
29:0629 minutes, 6 secondsdaughter grow up out in the world because of that controlling Behavior she doesn't get to be herself so she ends up killing herself probably something to
29:1429 minutes, 14 secondsthat effect of controlling parents who don't like yeah I was just gonna say like you try to control the outcome of of your children often to the detriment
29:2329 minutes, 23 secondsof their own growth your own growth yeah I was gonna say like they're stunted their ability to find out for themselves who they are what they want and allow
29:3129 minutes, 31 secondsthem to grow and expand on their through their own experiences in life you got the last one Jay this is uh the very popular one of course okay Cinderella I
29:4029 minutes, 40 secondshad no idea that these are not Disney movies so you thought Disney created these stories most of them are most of
29:4829 minutes, 48 secondsthese are not I mean of course like I don't know if there was ever a Rapunzel Disney movie or anything but I remember growing up with Hansel and Gretel like I
29:5529 minutes, 55 secondsremember that story a week yeah we knew that as a story We that was never Disney film I don't think but Cinderella of
30:0230 minutes, 2 secondscourse was and the Rapunzel I think they did do a Disney version as an updated like a CGI like it's one of those
30:1130 minutes, 11 seconds2010s 20 I never saw it but yeah she has big blonde hair and there's like Adventure it's a woman empowerment type
30:1930 minutes, 19 secondsfilm I think you know one of those the idea she's not a dabbling stress if I remember the trailers correctly it's like the prince I thought that was Rapunzel that's what I said didn't I say
30:2730 minutes, 27 secondsRapunzel I was just referring to the previous story that oh uh Rumpelstiltskin oh no you just do
30:3430 minutes, 34 secondssorry I'm I'm that's okay okay so yeah let's uh tell the story of yeah so anyways Cinderella uh one of the most iconic fairy tales of all time we all
30:4430 minutes, 44 secondsknow the story the beautiful young women forced to live with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters who gets her chance at a better life when a prince
30:5330 minutes, 53 secondsfalls in love with her after a ball but did you know that the original tale was far from the sanitized versions we know
31:0031 minutestoday in fact the Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella is downright gruesome so interesting another Grim family story I
31:0831 minutes, 8 secondslike to know what their upbringing was like to come up with some of these that may be something worth searching for what their life was like in this version
31:1531 minutes, 15 secondsthe stepsisters go to extreme lengths to fit into the glass slipper including cutting off parts of their own feet and
31:2431 minutes, 24 secondswhen the priest discovers their deception it's not a happy ending for them two pigeons swoop down and Peck out their eyes meanwhile Cinderella gets to
31:3231 minutes, 32 secondslive the luxury of the prince's Castle well so that's a good version still for Cinderella right that version of Cinderella isn't the oldest one and this
31:4131 minutes, 41 secondsstory has roots that date all the way back to the first century when the Greek historians strabo wrote about a woman named rodopus
31:5031 minutes, 50 secondswho was a slave in Egypt and married the king and while the details of the story have changed over the centuries the core
31:5731 minutes, 57 secondselements of beautiful women overcoming adversity to win the heart of a prince have remained the same so the next time you watch a version of Cinderella
32:0532 minutes, 5 secondswhether it's a classic Disney movie or a more recent adaptation remember that there's a darker side to the story and the history that stretched back
32:1332 minutes, 13 secondsthousands of years I find that interesting the concept of that story is as old as it is yeah I do too it is
32:2032 minutes, 20 secondspretty gruesome just the idea of the sepsis sisters were so desperate to get out of their situation as well to marry this Prince with the money that they
32:2932 minutes, 29 secondschopped up their feet to fit the slipper did they try to put it on like okay I need to take a little bit off on the side I could just see them kind of just
32:3632 minutes, 36 secondslike shaving a little bit twice caught one twice yeah measured twice good job that's a good one note the
32:4532 minutes, 45 secondsmessage here is a modern day message that even the Grimm Brothers couldn't have imagined Jason not to say that women are the only ones who do this but
32:5332 minutes, 53 secondsthey're kind of the the main people that do this plastic surgery stepsisters and Cinderella's original story they were so
33:0133 minutes, 1 seconddesperate to have a life as they saw it of luxury and beauty and and being taken care of by a man or whatever money and
33:0833 minutes, 8 secondsriches that they were willing to chop up their feet to fit what they needed to fit into woman today a lot of women you
33:1633 minutes, 16 secondsknow whether it's filth even filters on Instagram or Tick Tock or plastic surgery to conform to fit in to what
33:2533 minutes, 25 secondsthey feel is a vision that men or the world needs to see them and they're willing to chop themselves up and I actually heard a rumor a little
33:3233 minutes, 32 secondscelebrity gossip if you will that Madonna apparently regrets doing the plastic surgeon interface and she's trying to reverse it
33:4033 minutes, 40 secondsshe's trying to undo it to go back to her natural look it is really unfortunate but I do think the last time I saw her I
33:5033 minutes, 50 secondsthought it looked a little less bizarre well I think when you first have it your face does get puffy I think that's part of the problem oh yeah yeah
33:5833 minutes, 58 secondsokay so yeah they're saying that maybe she's unswollen right let that be today's modern day fairy tale lessons all you young ladies out in men of
34:0634 minutes, 6 secondscourse anyone a young person out there that just to be authentically who you are yeah just be who your age just age well no one's looked at I hate these
34:1534 minutes, 15 secondsMadonna's example but it sounds like she's regretting what she did and no one looks at Madonna goes boy what a what a young looking woman that is it's
34:2234 minutes, 22 secondsjust a weird looking woman yeah is weird looking better than an old that's I guess that's it for you to decide I guess but we as people can
34:3134 minutes, 31 secondsrecognize we can see when things aren't normal you see like oh that you know say somebody has an eye that's kind of off
34:3934 minutes, 39 secondsto the side or whatever we recognize just intuitively instinctively that things aren't that way yeah patterns and it's just part of our
34:4834 minutes, 48 secondsso when we see somebody like a Madonna and you're just like that's not what we I I get what you're trying to do but all
34:5534 minutes, 55 secondsI see is somebody trying to do something that right right it's like a bad toupee it's like a bag I was just gonna say a toupee it's like we're in a toupee it's
35:0335 minutes, 3 secondslike I understand why it is that you're doing what you're doing right you want to have hair nice we get we get you want to have hair but it looks like you're wearing a dead animal in your head okay
35:1135 minutes, 11 secondsI don't see I don't see you as somebody who doesn't have no hair well I don't want to say that I know but the point is
35:1935 minutes, 19 secondsI don't see that I just you have a nicely shaped head and you take care of yourself so you got a good jawline all this good stuff and what I'm getting at is if you were to pay I was like oh what
35:2835 minutes, 28 secondsare you doing you're accentuating this yes yes you're amplifying what it is that you don't have I know that is right
35:3735 minutes, 37 secondsno that's that's truly a good observation about trying to fit in to a mold fit somebody's else's expectations you
35:4535 minutes, 45 secondsactually are willing Force you can't force a relationship you can't force somebody like you you can only pretend so far and it eventually it would fall
35:5435 minutes, 54 secondsapart they will recognize the deceit they'll recognize you're not representing who you actually are all right well this was this was a fun
36:0136 minutes, 1 secondepisode as always let's just do a quick recap Pied Piper killing the kids in the river A Little Red Riding Hood she was
36:0836 minutes, 8 secondseating little mermaid she committed suicide Snow White well the Snow White she wasn't the victim but the queen who
36:1636 minutes, 16 secondswas the bad person she actually ended up being killed by dancing in red hot shoes Sleeping Beauty her version was she was
36:2536 minutes, 25 secondssexually assaulted and bore two children while asleep Rumpelstiltskin tore himself in half Goldilocks either was eaten torn apart
36:3436 minutes, 34 secondsand or in jail and or broke her neck Hansel and Gretel the kids were badass they killed the Witch and killed the devil's wife
36:4236 minutes, 42 secondsRapunzel she was just basically a prisoner either from an ogre or her father all the same she was a prisoner of the Tower and her husband Prince was
36:5236 minutes, 52 secondskilled and lastly Cinderella she ended up finding all the versions she ended up okay but her stepsisters were willing to
36:5936 minutes, 59 secondschop up their feet to fit the slipper okay so those are the gruesome stuff that the kids don't hear today or at least seeing the Disney films I'm
37:0737 minutes, 7 secondsgoing to go with what I think is the most worst slash deplorable origin story we'll probably get this
37:1337 minutes, 13 secondssoon well I have to go good old Bill Cosby's favorite story exactly that's crazy I mean there's no way
37:2237 minutes, 22 secondsaround it I mean that is a really morbid and wonder who wrote this if they were taking some sort of pleasure from
37:2937 minutes, 29 secondsthat it's so sexually explicit Sleeping Beauty was sexually assaulted at least twice if she bore two kids and the idea
37:3737 minutes, 37 secondsthat the kid was so hungry for nourishment of course a kiss sucking on the finger for nourishment that pulled off the enchantment and woke her up very
37:4637 minutes, 46 secondsodd yeah Sleeping Beauty yeah so Sleeping Beauty for me as well I mean you can't really pick another yeah
37:5237 minutes, 52 secondsdeplorable scenario than that so these were the best fairy tales in history or some of the best and we picked the worst
38:0038 minutesorigin stories there you go thanks for listening yeah send us an email like us on your iTunes or whatever give us a review it's been a while since we've had any of those and we will do a buyer
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38:1738 minutes, 17 secondsfront of every Silver Lining there's a cloud and today it was Sleeping Beauty and her gruesome
38:2538 minutes, 25 secondstrue origin story that the fairy tale was that we don't thankfully kids don't hear anymore