Many fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were presented in a light version, for modern children. However, some of them are beyond all hope, and should only be read to those kids you hate wildly. Read and see for yourself. I remember that we gave you, in which Bazurka smashed this person to smithereens. Today we will do the same with the Grimm brothers. Enjoy:

1. "Blue beard". All of Bluebeard's previous wives died under strange circumstances shrouded in mystery. No one has ever seen their lifeless bodies. Perhaps the then law enforcement agencies worked like modern ones - they could solve a crime only when it happened before their eyes. One way or another, Bluebeard convinces another woman to marry him and takes her to his castle. Further, he announces that he must leave. As he prepares to leave, Bluebeard emphasizes that the wife can visit any place in the castle except the basement. He then gives her the key to the cellar. Just a holiday of logic, your mother!

Of course, the wife climbs into the basement, opens it, and inside finds the bodies of Bluebeard's missing wives. They are a little dead and hanging on hooks from the ceiling. Bluebeard returns instantly (probably waiting outside with his ear to the door). He announces his intention to kill her, but the wife is saved at the last moment, with the help of two brothers who killed Bluebeard.

What is in a fairy tale? Naturally, if you have just divorced, then you will say "you need to listen to the peasant and not go where they don't ask!". But, he asked. Indirectly, but the bitch asked! This short fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm tells us about how a serial killer, who loved to torture his wives before killing, got married, he was killed and the fairy tale ended (his fairy tale). But violence, cruelty and illogicality are deposited in the minds of children.
He was probably something like a modern deputy, because no one bothered to come and ask where he was doing with his past wives. Most likely, the brothers of writers had one goal - to describe the room where women died a violent death. Then our entertainment portal fully understands their popularity.

"Torture of women. Without reason or logic. It's wonderful!" Brothers Grimm.

2. "The thief in the thorn bush". Interesting facts associated with this tale begin right from the title. The fact is that its original name Der Jude im Dorn is practically the same, only not "thief", but "Jew". Which, by the standards of fairy tale translators, is almost the same. That is, with the correct translation, the name of the tale sounds like "The Jew in the Blackthorn". The plot of the tale is simple, a boy buys a magic violin that makes everyone who hears its sounds dance endlessly. The kid wasted no time finding a Jew (named "Jew") and uses a violin to make him dance in a thorn bush. Probably just because this story was written in Germany. He orders the Jew to hand over his money and then lets him go.

The Jew goes to the police, and the boy is sentenced to be hanged. But, standing on the gallows, the guy begins to play the violin. Probably, only after that they thought of searching the prisoners sentenced to death. He refuses to stop playing until the Jew confesses that he stole the gold, and the judge has the Jew hanged instead of the German boy, as he was not the thief. Surely Hutton Gibson made the right decision to put Grimm's fairy tales high on the shelf while little Mel was fast asleep. But someone did give him a Bible to read.

3. "Robber Bridegroom". The girl makes an unexpected visit to her fiancé, following a trail of ashes into the middle of the Wailing Forest (ah, youth!). But he is not at home, and suddenly an old woman appears who tells her that the groom is, in fact, a dangerous cannibal who preys on young women, kills and eats them. Probably no one explained to him that they perfectly replace the sock.

The old woman hides the girl. Further, the groom returns with various frightened ladies, whom he butchers and eats. Seizing the moment, the first girl comes out of hiding and runs away. Then, she invites him to her father's house for dinner (because there is nothing better than irony), where he is arrested. If you like horror films, the plot of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm will seem banal to you. Your child will be brainwashed.

4. "The Tale of the Juniper". The boy agrees to treat himself to an apple that his evil stepmother offers him. The only thing is, he will have to climb into the chest to get it and he immediately rushes into the chest. Do you keep your fruits in chests too? If yes, then we will write about you. Naturally, the lid slams shut and the boy's head is blown off. Why "naturally"? Just because this is a fairy tale about a juniper and these are the Brothers Grimm!

5. "Poor fellow in the grave".The orphan gets to a rich couple who blizzard him for the slightest offense and torment him with hunger. (no, the owl from Hogwarts never flew to him). He decides to commit suicide, wine and honey with poison, justifying this act by the fact that his cruel adoptive parents will never be sent to school. Drunk and full, he lies down in the grave. Then he dies. Moral: stupidity

Educators and psychologists often complain that folk tales are too cruel. If they only knew what parents tell their offspring - how would you say it? - Heavily edited versions of the magical stories. The originals were much more, uh... naturalistic, or something...

For example, let's take the fairy tale about the dead princess, familiar to everyone from the cradle. Do you know that the beautiful maiden was not awakened at all by the kiss of the brave prince? The Italian version of this story, dated 1636, says that a passing young man raped a damsel sleeping in a dead sleep and went on without hesitation. The three connecting rods actually threw the old lady up the steeple of St. Paul's; Cinderella's stepmother chopped off a piece of her daughter's foot, and as for Snow White, let's say that the evil queen wanted not so much her heart as her tender body...

Many of you probably want to ask the same question: how could you tell such "fairy tales" to small children?! Folklore scientists explain this phenomenon as follows: fairy tales are part of oral folk art, and adults told not only children, but also adults what they themselves had heard somewhere.

In addition, in ancient times, adults treated children not as babies, but as future adults who needed to be prepared for adulthood. And yet, mind you, then the upbringing of the younger generation took place naturally - children and their parents slept in the same room, mothers gave birth to brothers and sisters in their own presence, and nothing to say about preparing breakfasts, lunches and dinners from bloodied skinned carcasses ...

Today, few people know about two people who made a huge contribution to the history of mankind, preserving for future generations excellent examples of "oral folk art". No, these are not the Brothers Grimm! One of them is the Italian Giambattista Basile, who wrote "The Tale of Tales" (it contained fifty Sicilian tales and was published in 1636).

The other is the Frenchman Charles Perrault. His book, containing eight fairy tales, was published in 1697. Seven of them have become classics, and among them are Cinderella, The Blue Bird, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Thumb. So, let's put out the lights, kids, and daddy will tell you a new story.

sleeping Beauty
Just gave birth to twins

When she was born, the sorceress predicted a terrible death for her - she would die from a prick of a poisoned spindle. Her father ordered all the spindles to be taken out of the palace, but the beauty - her name was Thalia - nevertheless pricked herself with a spindle and fell dead. The king, her inconsolable father, placed his daughter's lifeless body on a velvet-lined throne and ordered Thalia to be carried to their small house in the forest.

They locked the house and left, never to return.
One day a foreign king hunted in those forests. At some point, his falcon escaped from his hands and flew away. The king rode after him and came across a small house. Deciding that the falcon could fly inside, the cavalier climbed into the window of the house.
The falcon was not there. But he found the princess sitting on the throne.
Deciding that the girl had fallen asleep, the king began to wake her up, but neither pats on her cheeks nor screams awakened the sleeping beauty. Being inflamed by the beauty of the girl, the king, according to Basile, transferred her to the bed and "gathered the flowers of love." And then, leaving the beauty on the bed, he returned to his kingdom and for a long time forgot about the incident.
Nine months have passed. One fine day, the princess gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl, who lay next to her and sucked her breasts. It is not known how long this would have continued if one day the boy had not lost his mother's breast and had not begun to suck her finger - the same one pricked with a spindle.

The poisoned thorn popped out, and the princess woke up to find herself in an abandoned house all alone, except for the lovely babies who came from nowhere.
Meanwhile, the foreign king, suddenly remembering the sleeping girl and the "adventure", again gathered to hunt in those parts. Looking into an abandoned house, he found a beautiful trinity there. Having repented, the king told the beautiful princess about everything and even stayed there for several days. However, then he nevertheless left, however, promising the beauty to soon send for her and the children - in these few days they managed to fall in love with each other.

Returning home, the king could not forget about the meeting with the princess. Every night he left his royal bed, went into the garden and remembered the beautiful Thalia and her children - a boy named Sun and a girl named Moon.
And his wife - that is, the queen, whom he somehow did not find time to tell about the newborns - suspected something. First, she interrogated one of the royal falconers, and then intercepted the messenger with the king's letter to Thalia.
Meanwhile, the unsuspecting Thalia quickly gathered the twins and went to visit her lover. She did not know that the queen ordered all three to be seized, the babies killed, cooked from them several dishes and served to the king for dinner.

At dinner, when the king praised meat pies, the queen kept muttering: "Mangia, mangia, you eat yours!" The king was tired of listening to his wife's mutterings, and he abruptly cut her off: "Of course, I eat mine - after all, your dowry was worth a penny!"
But this was not enough for the evil queen. Blinded by a thirst for revenge, she ordered that the princess herself be brought to her. "You vile creature!" said the queen. "And I will kill you!" The princess sobbed and screamed that it was not her fault - after all, the king "broke her fort" while she slept. But the queen was adamant. "Start a fire and throw it in there!" she ordered the servants.
The desperate princess, groaning, asked to fulfill her last wish - she wanted to undress before her death. Her clothes were embroidered with gold and adorned with precious stones, so the greedy queen, after thinking, agreed.
The princess undressed very slowly. She let out a loud and plaintive cry as she took off every article of her dress. And the king heard her. He broke into the dungeon, knocked the queen down and demanded the return of the twins.

"But you ate them yourself!" said the evil queen. The king sobbed. He ordered the queen to be burnt in an already lit fire. Just then the cook came and admitted that he disobeyed the queen's order and left the twins alive, replacing them with a lamb. The joy of the parents knew no bounds! Having kissed the cook and each other, they began to live and make good. And Basile ends the tale with the following moral: "Some are always lucky - even when they sleep."

Cinderella
When the sisters tried on the shoe, they had to chop off their legs
The first European fairy tale about Cinderella was described by the same Basile - however, that original Cinderella did not lose her glass slipper at all. The little girl's name was Zezolla, short for Lucresuzzia, and she had already shown a homicidal inclination as a child. Having agreed with her nanny, she ruined her evil stepmother by inviting her to look at her mother's chest. The greedy stepmother bent over the chest, Zezolla with force lowered the lid - and broke her stepmother's neck.
After burying her stepmother, Zezolla persuaded her father to marry her nanny. But the girl did not feel better, because her life was poisoned by six nanny's daughters. She continued to wash, wash, clean the house and shovel ashes from stoves and fireplaces. That's why they called her Cinderella.

But one day, Zezolla accidentally stumbled upon a magical tree that could grant wishes. It was only necessary to cast a spell: "O magic tree! Undress yourself and dress me!" Near this tree, Cinderella dressed up in beautiful dresses and went to balls. Once the king himself saw the girl and, of course, immediately fell in love. He sent his servant to look for Zezolla, but he could not find the girl. The enamored ruler became angry and cried out: "By the souls of my ancestors - if you do not find a beauty, then I will beat you with a stick and kick you as many times as there are hairs in your vile beard!"
The servant, protecting his own ass, found Cinderella and, grabbing her, put her in her own cart. But Zezolla called out to the horses, and they rushed off. The servant fell.

Something else that belonged to Cinderella also fell. The servant returned to the master with the acquired object in his hands. He jumped up, happily grabbed the object and began to cover it with kisses. What was it? Silk slipper? Golden shoe? Glass slipper?
Not at all! It was a pianella - a stilted galosh with a cork sole, just like the women of Naples during the Renaissance wore! These galoshes on a high platform protected long women's dresses from dirt and dust. The height of the platform usually reached 6-18 inches.
So, imagine a king tenderly pressing to his chest such a large and awkward object as this very pianella, and not only pressing, but also cooing over him like a dove: if, they say, it’s not my destiny to find you, my love, then I will die in my prime. But I will still find you, my love, no matter what it costs me! And the young king sent messengers who traveled all over the kingdom and tried on the found pianella for each woman. So Cinderella was found.

Basile's tale is full of romanticism and speaks of a somewhat strange kind of fetish - shoes. However, the Northern European versions of Cinderella are much more gory.
Let's compare the Italian version with Scandinavian and Norwegian. Let's take the third act. The prince ordered to smear one step of the palace porch with resin, and the shoe of the local Cinderella - in these places she was called Aschen puttel - stuck to her. After that, the prince's servants went around the kingdom to look for the owner of such a small foot.

And so they got to Cinderella's house. But besides the poor thing herself, two stepmother's daughters still lived there! First, the eldest daughter tried on the shoe - locking herself in the bedroom, she pulled on the shoe, but in vain - her thumb interfered. Then her mother told her, "Take a knife and cut off your finger. When you become a queen, you won't have to walk much!" The girl obeyed - the shoe fit.

The delighted prince immediately put the beauty on a horse and galloped to the palace - to prepare for the wedding. But it was not there! As they passed the grave of Cinderella's mother, the birds perched in the trees sang loudly:

"Look back, look back!
Blood is dripping from the shoe
The shoe was small, and behind
It's not your bride sitting!"
The prince looked back and indeed saw the blood dripping from the girl's shoe. Then he returned and gave the slipper to the second stepmother's daughter. And that one turned out to be too thick a heel - and the shoe did not fit again. The mother gave the second daughter the same advice. The girl took a sharp knife, cut off part of the heel and, hiding the pain, squeezed her foot into the shoe. The joyful prince put another bride on a horse and galloped to the castle. But... the birds were on guard! Finally, the prince, returning to the same house, found his Cinderella, married her and lived in complete happiness. And envious girls were blinded and subjected to flogging - so as not to covet someone else's.

Yes, it was this version that served as the basis of the modern fairy tale - only the publishers, taking pity on the little children, crossed out even the slightest hint of blood from their version. Incidentally, the fairy tale of Cinderella is one of the most popular fairy tales in the world. She has been living for 2500 years and during this time she received 700 versions. And the earliest version of "Cinderella" was found in ancient Egypt - where mothers told their children at night a story about a beautiful prostitute who was swimming in the river, and at that time an eagle stole her sandal and took it to the pharaoh.

The sandal was so small and elegant that the pharaoh immediately announced a nationwide wanted list. And, of course, when he found Fodoris - Cinderella - he immediately married her. I wonder what number the wife of the pharaoh was this Cinderella? ..

Three Bears
An old woman breaks into the bears' house
She was an old ragged beggar, and it took almost a hundred years for the old woman to turn into a little thief with blond curls (by the way, if we were talking about a young girl, did she really break into the bears' house? Maybe it was still three filming one bachelor's apartment?)
The English poet Robert Susie published this tale in 1837, "equipping" it with phrases that since then have been successful for all parents without exception: "Who was sitting in my chair ?!" "Who ate my porridge?" As Susie wrote, the old woman broke into the house, ate porridge, sat on a chair, and then fell asleep. When the bears returned, she jumped out the window. "Whether she broke her neck, froze to death in the forest, or was arrested and rotted in prison, I don't know. But since then, the three bears have never heard of that old woman."

The British can be proud - for many years this version of the tale was considered the first. True, in 1951, in one of the libraries in Toronto, they found a book published in 1831 with the same tale. It was written for her nephew by a certain Eleanor Moore.
Mrs. Moore's tale is rather strange. According to her version, the old woman climbed into the house of three bears, because shortly before that they offended her. And at the end, when the three bears caught her, they slowly and in detail discussed what to do with her now:

"They threw her into the fire, but she did not burn; They threw her into the water, but she did not sink; Then they took her and threw her on the steeple of St. Paul's - and if you look carefully, you will see that she is still there! "

The version of the tale, edited by the poet Susie, existed for quite a long time, until in 1918 someone replaced the gray-haired old woman with a little girl.

Scary tale for children
About the swing

One boy had a long nose. And his name was Yegor. Somehow Egor came out into the yard and immediately sat on the swing. And began to swing - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. He rode for two hours and everything was not enough for him.
Other children in the yard began to ask:
- Yegorka! Let us ride!
But Yegor did not answer, but only began to sway even more - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. Only the long nose flickers. Then other children joined hands and began to sing a teaser that they themselves composed:
“Egor is a long nose,
I've grown to the swing!
Yegor was offended, but he did not cry from the swing. And the children were also offended and went to eat pancakes with sour cream. Egor still swayed and decided that it was time to go home and eat something, but he couldn’t stop - the swing didn’t want to let him go! Already he was spinning and shouting - nothing helps. The swing swayed even harder and creaked so much that other children had sour cream on their pancakes.
Then the Little Witch came out into the yard and shouted:
- Yegorka! Let's ride!
- I would give, - Yegor answered, - but I can’t get off the swing!
- Why? What happened?
- Yes, I swayed, swayed, and other children began to tease me with a Long Nose and also that I had grown to the swing. Help me-e-e!
- You've been bewitched! exclaimed the Little Witch.
- Nu so disenchant me!
- It's not so easy, you have to come up with a spell that will stop the swing, - the Little Sorceress answered and sat down to think on the edge of the sandbox.
And Yegor kept swaying and yelling.
At this time, a policeman was walking by, who immediately realized that something was wrong. The policeman grabbed the swing to save Yegor, but he only stuck to it and they began to swing together.
“I think I’ve come up with it,” the Little Sorceress said quietly, “let’s try it now.” - And quickly, quickly muttered:
"Swing-swing, Egor sorry
And let me go home as soon as possible."
Then something tinkled, and the swing stopped. Yes, so quickly that the policeman from surprise fell on the flower bed, and Yegor - on him. Then Yegor jumped up and ran home to eat pancakes with sour sour cream. And the policeman smiled and went to his office to write a report on the boy's rescue.
And the Little Witch sat on the swing and began to swing - up and down, up and down. And back and forth. And when the next morning Yegor went out into the yard, she immediately gave him a place. Well… almost immediately.
Vyacheslav Svalnov

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Very scary story
In one Sicilian city, boys began to disappear at night (girls if you tell girls in the ward), and only boys disappeared (girls if you tell girls in the ward), who did not sleep after moonrise.
Many tears were shed by mothers and fathers until the terrible secret was revealed.
The fact is that at night a ship with blood-scarlet sails entered the bay. From it at night sailors went to the shore in boats. Having found an awake boy / girl on the shore in some house, they lulled the child and took him away.
The crew of the ship was cursed, and to get rid of the curse, it was necessary to collect a collection of 239 brushes from small children.
On the ship, a terrible doctor, while the child was under anesthesia, cut off his hand.
The child, waking up from anesthesia and not yet understanding what was happening looking at the stump, asked the doctor:
- Uncle, where is my pen?
To which the doctor replied:
- Here she is.!!! Here she is!!! Here she is!!!

The last line is staged to the closest child... You just shake your brush in front of his face.

The kids are scared at first, but then they start laughing.

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Carnation
There lived a mother and a daughter. Nobody went to them, because they had a nail sticking out of the floor. He stuck out in the middle of the room and the girl had to go around him all the time. The girl often asked her mother:
- Mom, let's pull out this nail!
- What are you daughter! Never, ever touch that nail. And never invite anyone to your house.
- And why?
- Because someone wants to pull out this nail, and then trouble will not be avoided!
- And what will happen?
- Better not ask me, daughter. There will be a terrible, terrible misfortune.
And the girl stopped asking. So the years passed. The girl grew up, and she wanted to invite guests.
And then one terrible, terrible autumn evening, the girl's mother went to the cemetery to get some fresh air; and the girl called the guests. The guests began to dance, but the nail hindered them all the time. Then the guests said:
Let's get that nail out!
And the girl screamed:
- It is forbidden! No need! Something terrible is about to happen!
But the guests laughed at the girl and, seizing the moment, pulled out the nail. And then there was a terrible roar. Some time later, the doorbell rang. The girl wanted to open the door, but the guests shouted:
- No need! Do not open!
The girl was a pioneer and therefore opened it all the same. A woman dressed in black stood in the doorway. She immediately began to enter the apartment. She kept coming and going, and the guests and the girl backed up and backed away until the apartment ran out.
- What have you done ... - said the black woman in a quiet, creaky voice, like that of a dead man. - What have you done. she repeated a little louder. - Under this floor, in my apartment ... - and then she yelled in some terrible inhuman voice. - ... the chandelier has fallen off!!!
Agafya Knyazhinskaya

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Semi-flower
Once upon a time there was a girl Zhenya. And then one day, on New Year's Eve, she received a seven-flower flower as a gift from Santa Claus. Zhenya was delighted, and in the evening she went to a disco. She tore off a red petal from a seven-flowered flower and said:
- I want to be sausage! - and began to sausage at the disco. Five hours later, Zhenya got tired of sausage, she tore off the orange petal and said:
- I want me not to be sausage, - and immediately stopped sausage. She sat for a while and felt sad. Then she tore off the yellow petal and said:
- I want to have fun! - and it became so fun for her that it’s impossible to retell that she soaked it for joy. When there was no one to amuse, Zhenya tore off a green petal and said:
- I want me not to have fun, - and immediately stopped having fun. Zhenya looked around at the floor strewn with young corpses and decided to punish herself. She tore off the blue petal and said:
“I want to be sad,” and immediately began to cry.
Zhenya walked to her yard already knee-deep in tears. In the yard, she saw the neighbor boy Vitya, who tried to climb onto the bench so as not to get his shoes wet. Vitya liked Zhenya for a long time for his beautiful crutches. She wanted the same, covered with skillful intricate carvings, trimmed with gold and ivory, studded with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, but, unfortunately, she was not lame like Vitya.
Now, when Zhenya felt so bad, it seemed to her that Vitya was not happy enough. Maybe he needs something else besides crutches? Wife was prevented from thinking by tears running from her eyes in continuous streams. She tore off the blue petal by touch and quickly said:
- I want me not to be sad, - and, having stopped crying, she swam up to Vita.
- Hello, Vitya. I've been wanting to tell you for a long time that you're a cool dude, and I want to do something cool for you so that you don't suck on this bench.
With these words, Zhenya tore off the purple petal and said:
- I want Vita to have sausage ...
And the good girl had no more petals ...
Agafya Knyazhinskaya

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Educators and psychologists often complain that folk tales are too cruel. If they only knew what parents tell their offspring - how would you say it? - Heavily edited versions of the magical stories. The originals were much more, uh... naturalistic, or something... For example, let's take a fairy tale about a dead princess familiar to everyone from the cradle. Do you know that the beautiful maiden was not awakened at all by the kiss of the brave prince? The Italian version of this story, dated 1636, says that a passing young man raped a damsel sleeping in a dead sleep and went on without hesitation. The three connecting rods actually threw the old lady up the steeple of St. Paul's; Cinderella's stepmother chopped off a piece of her daughter's foot, and as for Snow White, let's say that the evil queen wanted not so much her heart as her tender body...
Many of you probably want to ask the same question: how could you tell such “fairy tales” to small children?! Folklore scientists explain this phenomenon as follows: fairy tales are part of oral folk art, and adults told not only children, but also adults what they themselves had heard somewhere.
In addition, in ancient times, adults treated children not as babies, but as future adults who needed to be prepared for adulthood. And yet, mind you, then the upbringing of the younger generation took place naturally - children and their parents slept in the same room, mothers gave birth to brothers and sisters in their own presence, and there’s nothing to say about preparing breakfasts, lunches and dinners from bloody skinned carcasses ...
Today, few people know about two people who made a huge contribution to the history of mankind, preserving for future generations excellent examples of “oral folk art”. No, these are not the Brothers Grimm! One of them is the Italian Giambattista Basile, who wrote The Tale of Tales (it contained fifty Sicilian tales and was published in 1636).
The other is the Frenchman Charles Perrault. His book, containing eight fairy tales, was published in 1697. Seven of them have become classics, and among them are Cinderella, The Blue Bird, Sleeping Beauty, Thumb Boy. So, let's put out the lights, kids, and daddy will tell you a new story.
Sleeping Beauty just gave birth to twins.
When she was born, the sorceress predicted a terrible death for her - she would die from a prick of a poisoned spindle. Her father ordered all the spindles to be taken away from the palace, but the beauty - her name was Thalia - nevertheless pricked herself with a spindle and fell dead. The king, her inconsolable father, placed his daughter's lifeless body on a velvet-lined throne and ordered Thalia to be carried to their small house in the forest.
They locked the house and left, never to return.
One day a foreign king hunted in those forests. At some point, his falcon escaped from his hands and flew away. The king rode after him and came across a small house. Deciding that the falcon could fly inside, the cavalier climbed into the window of the house.
The falcon was not there. But he found the princess sitting on the throne.
Deciding that the girl had fallen asleep, the king began to wake her up, but neither pats on her cheeks nor screams awakened the sleeping beauty. Being inflamed by the beauty of the girl, the king, according to Basile, transferred her to the bed and "gathered the flowers of love." And then, leaving the beauty on the bed, he returned to his kingdom and for a long time forgot about the incident.
Nine months have passed. One fine day, the princess gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl, who lay next to her and sucked her breasts. It is not known how long this would have continued if one day the boy had not lost his mother's breast and had not begun to suck her finger - the same one pricked with a spindle.
The poisoned thorn popped out, and the princess woke up to find herself in an abandoned house all alone, except for the lovely babies who came from nowhere.
Meanwhile, the foreign king, suddenly remembering the sleeping girl and the "adventure", again gathered to hunt in those parts. Looking into an abandoned house, he found a beautiful trinity there. Having repented, the king told the beautiful princess about everything and even stayed there for several days. However, then he nevertheless left, however, promising the beauty to soon send for her and the children - in these few days they managed to fall in love with each other.
Returning home, the king could not forget about the meeting with the princess. Every night he left his royal bed, went into the garden and remembered the beautiful Thalia and her children - a boy named Sun and a girl named Moon.
And his wife - that is, the queen, whom he somehow did not find time to tell about the newborns - suspected something. First, she interrogated one of the royal falconers, and then intercepted the messenger with the king's letter to Thalia.
Meanwhile, the unsuspecting Thalia quickly gathered the twins and went to visit her lover. She did not know that the queen ordered all three to be seized, the babies killed, cooked from them several dishes and served to the king for dinner.
At dinner, when the king praised the meat pies, the queen kept muttering: "Mangia, mangia, you eat yours!" The king was tired of listening to his wife’s mutterings, and he abruptly cut her off: “Of course, I eat mine - after all, your dowry was worth a penny!”
But this was not enough for the evil queen. Blinded by a thirst for revenge, she ordered that the princess herself be brought to her. "You vile creature! said the queen. “And I will kill you!” The princess sobbed and screamed that it was not her fault - after all, the king "broke her fort" while she slept. But the queen was adamant. "Start a fire and throw it in there!" she ordered the servants.
The desperate princess, groaning, asked to fulfill her last wish - she wanted to undress before her death. Her clothes were embroidered with gold and adorned with precious stones, so the greedy queen, after thinking, agreed.
The princess undressed very slowly. She let out a loud and plaintive cry as she took off every article of her dress. And the king heard her. He broke into the dungeon, knocked the queen down and demanded the return of the twins.
“But you ate them yourself!” said the evil queen. The king sobbed. He ordered the queen to be burnt in an already lit fire. Just then the cook came and admitted that he disobeyed the queen's order and left the twins alive, replacing them with a lamb. The joy of the parents knew no bounds! Having kissed the cook and each other, they began to live and make good. And Basile ends the tale with the following moral: "Some are always lucky - even when they sleep."
Cinderella
When the sisters tried on the shoe, they had to chop off their legs
The first European fairy tale about Cinderella was described by the same Basile - however, that original Cinderella did not lose her glass slipper at all. The little girl's name was Zezolla, short for Lucresuzzia, and she had already shown a homicidal inclination as a child. Having agreed with her nanny, she ruined her evil stepmother by inviting her to look at her mother's chest. The greedy stepmother bent over the chest, Zezolla with force lowered the lid - and broke her stepmother's neck.
After burying her stepmother, Zezolla persuaded her father to marry her nanny. But the girl did not feel better, because her life was poisoned by six nanny's daughters. She continued to wash, wash, clean the house and shovel ashes from stoves and fireplaces. That's why they called her Cinderella.
But one day, Zezolla accidentally stumbled upon a magical tree that could grant wishes. It was only necessary to utter a spell: “O magic tree! Undress yourself and dress me!" Near this tree, Cinderella dressed up in beautiful dresses and went to balls. Once the king himself saw the girl and, of course, immediately fell in love. He sent his servant to look for Zezolla, but he could not find the girl. The enamored ruler became angry and cried out: “I swear by the souls of my ancestors - if you do not find a beauty, then I will beat you with a stick and kick you as many times as there are hairs in your vile beard!”
The servant, protecting his own ass, found Cinderella and, grabbing her, put her in her own cart. But Zezolla called out to the horses, and they rushed off. The servant fell.
Something else that belonged to Cinderella also fell. The servant returned to the master with the acquired object in his hands. He jumped up, happily grabbed the object and began to cover it with kisses. What was it? Silk slipper? Golden shoe? Glass slipper?
Not at all! It was a pianella - a stilted galosh with a cork sole, just like the women of Naples during the Renaissance wore! These galoshes on a high platform protected long women's dresses from dirt and dust. The height of the platform usually reached 6-18 inches.
So, imagine a king tenderly pressing to his chest such a large and awkward object as this very pianella, and not only pressing, but also cooing over him like a dove: if, they say, it’s not my destiny to find you, my love, then I will die in my prime. But I will still find you, my love, no matter what it costs me! And the young king sent messengers who traveled all over the kingdom and tried on the found pianella for each woman. So Cinderella was found.
Basile's tale is full of romanticism and speaks of a somewhat strange kind of fetish - shoes. However, the Northern European versions of Cinderella are much more gory.
Let's compare the Italian version with Scandinavian and Norwegian. Let's take the third act. The prince ordered to smear one step of the palace porch with resin, and the shoe of the local Cinderella - in these places she was called Aschen puttel - stuck to her. After that, the prince's servants went around the kingdom to look for the owner of such a small foot.
And so they got to Cinderella's house. But besides the poor thing herself, two stepmother's daughters still lived there! First, the eldest daughter tried on the shoe - locking herself in the bedroom, she pulled on the shoe, but in vain - her thumb interfered. Then her mother said to her, “Take a knife and cut off your finger. When you become a queen, you won't have to walk much anymore!" The girl obeyed - the shoe fit.
The delighted prince immediately put the beauty on a horse and galloped to the palace - to prepare for the wedding. But it was not there! As they passed the grave of Cinderella's mother, the birds perched in the trees sang loudly:
"Look back, look back!
Blood is dripping from the shoe
The shoe was small, and behind
It's not your bride sitting!
The prince looked back and indeed saw the blood dripping from the girl's shoe. Then he returned and gave the slipper to the second stepmother's daughter. And that one turned out to be too thick a heel - and the shoe did not fit again. The mother gave the second daughter the same advice. The girl took a sharp knife, cut off part of the heel and, hiding the pain, squeezed her foot into the shoe. The joyful prince put another bride on a horse and galloped to the castle. But… the birds were on guard! Finally, the prince, returning to the same house, found his Cinderella, married her and lived in complete happiness. And envious girls were blinded and subjected to flogging - so as not to covet someone else's.
Yes, it was this version that served as the basis of the modern fairy tale - only the publishers, taking pity on the little children, crossed out even the slightest hint of blood from their version. Incidentally, the fairy tale of Cinderella is one of the most popular fairy tales in the world. She has been living for 2500 years and during this time she received 700 versions. And the earliest version of Cinderella was found in ancient Egypt - where mothers told their children at night a story about a beautiful prostitute who was swimming in the river, and at that time an eagle stole her sandal and took it to the pharaoh.
The sandal was so small and elegant that the pharaoh immediately announced a nationwide wanted list. And, of course, when he found Fodoris - Cinderella - he immediately married her. I wonder what number the wife of the pharaoh was this Cinderella? ..
Three Bears
An old woman breaks into the bears' house
She was an old ragged beggar, and it took almost a hundred years for the old woman to turn into a little thief with blond curls (by the way, if we were talking about a young girl, did she really break into the bears' house? Maybe it was still three filming one bachelor's apartment?)
The English poet Robert Susie published this tale in 1837, “equipping” it with phrases that since then have been successful for all parents without exception: “Who was sitting in my chair ?!” "Who ate my porridge?" As Susie wrote, the old woman broke into the house, ate porridge, sat on a chair, and then fell asleep. When the bears returned, she jumped out the window. “Whether she broke her neck, froze to death in the forest, was arrested and rotted in prison, I don’t know. But the three bears have never heard of that old woman since.”
The British can be proud - for many years this version of the tale was considered the first. True, in 1951, in one of the libraries in Toronto, they found a book published in 1831 with the same tale. It was written for her nephew by a certain Eleanor Moore.
Mrs. Moore's story is rather strange. According to her version, the old woman climbed into the house of three bears, because shortly before that they offended her. And at the end, when the three bears caught her, they slowly and in detail discussed what to do with her now:
“They threw her into the fire, but she did not burn; They threw her into the water, but she did not sink; Then they took her and threw her on the steeple of St. Paul's - and if you look carefully, you will see that she is still there!
The version of the tale, edited by the poet Susie, existed for quite a long time, until in 1918 someone replaced the gray-haired old woman with a little girl.

February 24 marks the 230th anniversary of the birth of one of the Grimm brothers - Wilhelm. On this occasion, we propose to recall fairy tales that are scary to read not only in childhood, but even after many years.

Svetlana, Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreevich was an academician, court adviser and educator of the future heir to Alexander II. Few people remember that it was he who redeemed Shevchenko from the feudal lords and more than once in troubled times asked for Pushkin and Herzen. And in his free time from hard work, he liked to retire and rhyme. Among other things, he wrote small, but very scary poems. Svetlana once on Epiphany evening decided to tell fortunes about her betrothed. At the height of the night, the groom himself appeared and, to the joy of the girl, ordered to go with him to a new house. However, the betrothed was somehow too pale and sad, and the house turned out to be a deathbed. If impressions are not enough, read also about Lyudmila. In that personal life, everything turned out even worse. Krabat or Legends of the Old Mill, Otfried Preusler
The story is based on multiple folklore plots of the Slavic peoples who lived in the author's homeland, in Germany. And cities, villages and even the mill itself can be found on the map. The action of the story takes place in a water mill, where a hungry boy Krabat wanders one day. Her millstones turn day and night, and she is notorious among the populace. It turns out that the main Master is a warlock. He teaches black magic to his students, and on Christmas Eve one of them must dig his own grave and die, thereby extending the life of the teacher. And every full moon, the gentleman in black comes to the mill, whose feather on his hat illuminates the hellish light of the bags that he brings to grind their contents on the millstone waiting only for him. Coraline in Nightmareland, Neil Gaiman
This fairy tale is the embodiment of all children's fears. Coraline and her parents move into a new house. Like all adults, they are always busy and pay little attention to the girl. She finds a small secret door, and behind it is a beautiful parallel world in which parents live exactly the same, only with buttons instead of eyes. They arrange a holiday for the girl, indulge in every possible way and ask to stay with them forever. And Coraline is almost ready to agree, because here she is truly loved. In the meantime, it turns out that three girls have already disappeared without a trace in this house, and everyone understands that Coraline may not be returned either. Rumplestiltskin, Brothers Grimm
In principle, you can just pick up a collection of fairy tales and choose what you want to read more about right now: about the gouged out eyes of a handsome prince, a game of bowling, where instead of pins there are severed legs, and balls replace severed heads, perhaps about a farm, on which everyone together committed suicide, or about a negligent father who needs to kill two sons and smear their blood around the neighborhood. The main thing is not to take the children's version, where all these atrocities are carefully cut out, but the original one for adults. In it, and our hero Rumpelstiltskin will be a little unlucky. He volunteered to help the king enrich himself in exchange for his firstborn. However, he did not agree, and even fraudulently found out how to get rid of the annoying dwarf. And then Rumplestiltskin stamped his foot in the hearts, and she fell into the ground. And when the poor fellow wanted to pull it out, he accidentally tore himself in half. Tale of Tales, Giambattista Basile
The Neapolitan poet Basile lived at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. It is his collection of fairy-tale folklore that is the first in the history of European literature. And only after 200 years, some of the fairy tales, like, Sleeping beauty, Cinderella And Puss in Boots copied by the brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and others. The author's ornate metaphors and selected curses, which are simply interesting to read, give a special charm to the collection. Well, the well-known, but very realistic plots, teeming with executions, death, torture and something worse, will bring fear. And no wonder, because Naples at that time was a crowded port, where 18 thousand death sentences were signed in 20 years, which did not at all reduce the number of robberies and robberies, prostitution flourished in it, including children's, and extra or unwanted children were killed without ceremony. The story of the severed hand, Wilhelm Hauff
Gauf died of typhoid fever, having lived in the world for only 24 years. However, three collections of fairy tales, one of which was released after the death of the writer by his wife, forever inscribed his name in the history of literature and fairy tales in particular. From ordinary legends about ghosts and the poor, punishing the evil rich, he created sad, and sometimes very scary stories. For example, about how a heartbroken brother comes to a young doctor with a story that his sister has died, relatives want to bury her here, but he must bring home at least her head. The doctor agrees to professionally cut her off, goes to the castle, but, having slashed the deceased’s throat, he sees that she managed to open her eyes in horror for the last time. Terrible revenge, Nikolai Gogol
The story enters the cycle Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. Of course, this is not a fairy tale in the conventional sense. However, the folklore basis, along with mermaids, sorcerers and the resurrected dead, gives reason to read it. It all starts at the wedding. The old captain marries his son, the icons are taken out, and immediately one of the guests begins to writhe, turning into a terrible monster, and disappears. Yesaul understands that this is a sorcerer. The next day, a relative appears in the family, who was considered missing many years ago. He behaves strangely, does not eat anything, drinks some kind of liquid from a bottle, which he carries with him everywhere. Well, when the dead began to rise from under the ground of an abandoned cemetery at night, it became clear that something had to be done with the sorcerer. Monster Voice, Patrick Ness
The mother of 13-year-old Conor was diagnosed with cancer. The boy closes in on himself, suffers bullying at school and wakes up every night from the same nightmare. One day he hears a voice and sees a monster in the form of a mulberry tree in front of him. He starts telling Conor three stories. After that, he will be forced to tell his own. But the boy doesn't know stories. And he is afraid of the day when it will be his turn to speak, he is afraid of his nightly terrible dream, but most of all he is afraid of another, which he cannot admit to himself. And while life is leaving his mom, Conor will have to tell the truth out loud, no matter how terrible it may be. Bluebeard, Charles Perrault
Everyone knows the story of how a woman opened a forbidden room and found in it the corpses of her husband's previous wives hanging on rusty hooks. But after all, the fairy tales of France are not limited to one Monsieur Perrot. If you leaf through folk tales, then there will be evil gnomes who gave the hunchback another hump, and a soldier, by whose grace his comrade was torn to pieces by wild animals, and fratricides, and fairies from the grotto, who spared the loaf for the poor family, thereby dooming them to certain death. The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen grew up in a poor family, at the age of 14 he left home with the words "I'm going to Copenhagen to become famous! " and never learned to write without mistakes. He never married and had no children. However, this did not prevent him from becoming perhaps the most beloved children's writer. Although some of his fairy tales and stories are too sad to read at night. For example, the story of the Little Mermaid, who saved the prince and sacrificed everything for him. Not only did he not marry her. The poor thing also refused to take the opportunity to stab him with a knife, staining her legs with his blood. Then she would be able to return to her parents at sea and live her 300 years there. And so it turned into sea foam the next morning. And the prince lived happily ever after with a young and beautiful wife. If suddenly you didn’t have enough drama, read another story about a girl with matches.