The most cruel tales of the brothers grimm. Very scary fairy tales for children at night. The scariest stories: children should not read

Educators and psychologists often complain that folk tales too cruel. If they only knew what parents tell their offspring - how can I say it? - heavily edited versions of magical stories. The originals were much more, uh-uh ... naturalistic, or something ... For example, let's take a fairy tale familiar to everyone from the cradle of a dead princess. Did you know that the beautiful maiden was not at all awakened by the kiss of the brave prince? The Italian version of this story, dated 1636, says that a fellow traveler raped a charming girl who was sleeping in a dead sleep and went on without hesitation. The three crank bears actually threw the old woman onto the spire of St. Paul's; Cinderella's stepmother cut off a piece of her daughters' feet, and as for Snow White, let's say that the evil queen wanted not so much her heart as a tender body ...
Many of you probably want to ask the same question: how could you tell such "fairy tales" to young children ?! Scientists-folklorists 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 heard somewhere.
In addition, in ancient times, adults treated children not as toddlers, but as future adults who needed to be prepared for adulthood. And also, mind you, then the upbringing of the younger generation took place naturally - the children and their parents slept in the same room, the mothers gave birth to their brothers and sisters in their own presence, and there is nothing to say about cooking breakfasts, lunches and dinners from bloody refreshed carcasses ...
Today, few people know about two people who made a huge contribution to the history of mankind, preserving excellent examples of "oral folk art" for future generations. 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 became classics, and among them Cinderella, Blue Bird, Sleeping Beauty, Thumb Boy. So let's put out the lights, kids, and dad will tell you a new tale.
The sleeping beauty just gave birth to twins.
When she was born, the witch predicted a terrible death for her - she would die from the 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 her daughter's lifeless body on a velvet-covered throne and ordered Thalia to be taken to their small house in the forest.
They locked the house and left, never to return.
Once a foreign king was hunting in those forests. At some point, his falcon escaped from his hands and flew away. The king galloped after him and came across a small house. Deciding that the falcon could fly inside, the gentleman climbed into the window of the house.
The falcon was not there. But he found a princess sitting on a throne.
Deciding that the girl was asleep, the king began to wake her, but neither pats on the cheeks nor screams awakened the sleeping beauty. Inflamed by the beauty of the girl, the king, according to Basile, carried her to the bed and "gathered flowers of love." And then, leaving the beauty on the bed, he returned to his kingdom and forgot about the incident for a long time.
Nine months have passed. One 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 lasted if the boy had not once lost his mother's breast and had not begun to suck on her finger - the one pricked with a spindle.
The poisoned thorn jumped out, and the princess woke up, finding herself in an abandoned house all alone, except for the adorable babies that came out of nowhere.
In the meantime, the foreign king, suddenly remembering the sleeping girl and the "adventure", again gathered to hunt in those lands. Looking into an abandoned house, he found a beautiful trinity there. Repented, the king told the beautiful princess about everything and even stayed there for several days. However, then he still left, however, promising the beauty to soon send for her and the children - during these few days they managed to fall in love with each other.
Returning home, the king could not forget about meeting 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 Luna.
And his wife - that is, the queen, whom he somehow did not find time to tell about the newborns - was suspicious. First, she interrogated one of the royal falconers, and then intercepted the messenger with the king's letter to Thalia.
Meanwhile, the unsuspecting Talia quickly gathered the twins and went to visit her lover. She did not know that the queen ordered to seize all three, kill the kids, prepare several dishes from them and serve them to the king for dinner.
At dinner, when the king praised the meat pies, the queen muttered all the time: "Mangia, mangia, you eat yours!" The king got tired of listening to the murmur of his wife, 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 the thirst for revenge, she ordered the princess herself to be brought to her. “You are a 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 was sleeping. But the queen was adamant. "Light the 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 she died. Her robes were embroidered with gold and adorned with precious stones, so the greedy queen, on reflection, agreed.
The princess undressed very slowly. Taking off every piece of her dress, she let out a loud and plaintive cry. And the king heard her. He burst into the dungeon, knocked the queen down and demanded that the twins be returned.
"But you ate them yourself!" said the evil queen. The king burst into tears. He ordered the queen to be burned in an already kindled fire. Just then the cook came and admitted that he had 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 money. And Basile ends the tale with the following morality: "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, the original Cinderella did not lose her crystal shoe at all. This little girl's name was Zezolla, short for Lucrezuzzi, and she showed a tendency to murder as a child. In agreement with her nanny, she ruined the evil stepmother, suggesting that she look at her mother's chest. The greedy stepmother bent over the chest, Zezolla pulled down the lid with force - and broke her stepmother's neck.
After burying her stepmother, Zezolla persuaded her father to marry a nanny. But the girl did not feel better, because her life was poisoned by six nanny daughters. She continued to scrub, do laundry, tidy up the house, and scoop up ash from stoves and fireplaces. For this she was nicknamed Cinderella.
But one day Zezolla stumbled upon a magic 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 find Zezolla, but he could not find the girl. The ruler in love 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 nasty beard!"
The servant, protecting his own ass, found Cinderella and, grabbing her, put her in her own cart. But Zezolla shouted to the horses, and they dashed off. The servant fell.
Something else that belonged to Cinderella also fell. The servant returned to the owner 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 Boot? Glass slipper?
Not at all! It was a pianella - a walker-like 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. Platform heights usually reached 6-18 inches.
So, imagine a king, with tenderness 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 the prime of life. But only I will find you anyway, my love, no matter what it takes! And the young king sent messengers who traveled around the whole 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 bloodier.
Let's compare the Italian version with the Scandinavian and Norwegian. Let's take at least 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 her name was Ashen-puttel - stuck to it. After that, the prince's servants went throughout the kingdom to look for the owner of such a small leg.
And so they got to Cinderella's house. But besides the very poor thing, there were still two stepmother's daughters! At first, the eldest daughter tried on the shoe - she locked 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 queen, you won't have to walk a lot! " 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 sitting in the trees sang loudly:
“Look back, look back!
Blood drips from the shoe
The shoe was small, and behind
Your bride is not sitting! "
The prince looked back and actually saw blood flowing from the girl's shoe. Then he returned and gave the shoe to his second stepmother's daughter. And that one had a too thick 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 rode to the castle. But ... the birds were on guard! Finally, the prince, returning to the same house, found his Cinderella, married her and healed himself in complete happiness. And the envious girls were blinded and flogged - so that they would not covet someone else's.
Yes, it was this version that served as the basis of the modern fairy tale - only the publishers, having pity on the little children, deleted even the slightest hints of blood from their version. By the way, the 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 - there mothers told their children at night the story of a beautiful prostitute who bathed in the river, and at this time an eagle stole her sandal and took it to the Pharaoh.
The sandal was so small and graceful that the pharaoh immediately announced a nationwide wanted list. And, of course, when he found Fodoris - Cinderella - he immediately married her. I wonder what the Pharaoh's wife was this Cinderella? ..
Three Bears
An old woman breaks into the house of the bears
She was an old ragged beggar woman, 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 get into the house of the bears? Maybe it was still three people who were shooting one bachelor's apartment ?!)
The English poet Robert Susi published this tale in 1837, "equipping" it with phrases that have been successful for all parents since then: "Who was sitting in my chair ?!" "Who ate my porridge?" As Susi 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 in the forest, 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 of 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 the three bears, because not long before that they offended her. And in the end, when three bears caught her, they slowly and thoroughly 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 spire of St. Paul's Church - and if you look closely, you will see that she is still there! "
The version of the tale, edited by the poet Susi, existed for a long time, until in 1918 someone changed the gray-haired old woman to a little girl.

The famous German storyteller and philologist Jacob Grimm was born on January 4, 1785.

The Brothers Grimm in history will forever remain only two, despite the fact that their family had as many as five sons. But it was Jacob and Wilhelm who were among the brilliant minds of their time. Apart from their popularity as writers, little is known about the activities of the Brothers Grimm. In fact, their legacy is not at all limited to adapted German folklore. The brothers were interested in almost everything connected with the language in one way or another - from Scandinavian myths to the history of law. Wilhelm's periods of creative activity were followed by long breaks, mainly due to poor health. And the real "father of German philology" can rightfully be called precisely Jacob Grimm, whose life was spent in constant scientific search.

The brothers were born into a completely prosperous family. Jacob was only a year older than Wilhelm and from childhood the brothers were each other's best friends. Common interests and love for science only strengthened the friendship. Following the example of their late father, the brothers decided to study law at the University of Marburg. While studying at faculty of Law Jacob realized that he was more interested in philology. After graduating from university, Jacob went to Paris where he met with philologists who collected folk songs, legends and fairy tales. Jacob was imbued with this idea and decided to definitely do something like this in Germany, of course, in the company of his younger brother.

In 1808, Jacob Grimm received a job as a personal librarian from Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jerome, King of Westphalia. The king liked a young, serious youth, and the monarch rarely looked into the library, so nothing prevented Jacob from doing research. Therefore, four years later the brothers Grimm published their first volume of Children's and Family Tales, and three years later - the second. A couple of years later the collection "German legends" appeared. Because of his serious interest in the language, Jacob abandoned his career as a diplomat. In general, official duties were only a hindrance for Jacob. That is why he tried in every way to remain a simple librarian, although he was offered a professor position with a good salary. Until 1820, the Grimm brothers worked modestly in the Kassel library, where they could freely engage in philological research.

They later agreed to teach at the University of Göttingen, where the emotional Wilhelm was more successful with students than his older brother. Dryish and restrained, Jacob did not at all strive to teach, he was only interested in science. True, at the university, the brothers made many friends who shared their interests, but all good things end, and the brothers were fired in 1837 for refusing to take the oath to the Hanoverian king.

Jacob Grimm entered the history of linguistics primarily as the author of the four-volume "German Grammar". Its first volume is devoted to morphology and phonetics, the second - mainly morphology, the third - word formation and the fourth - syntax. This study is based on a historical comparison of all Germanic languages, covering a huge amount of material, starting with the first written records.

Jacob and Wilhelm have done an incredibly painstaking job creating their German Dictionary and German Grammar. The preparatory work alone took 14 years! But their dictionary is still considered a unique publication that has no analogues.

Still, the Brothers Grimm for us, first of all, are storytellers. Parents are usually unaware that they are reading heavily softened versions to their children. Jacob and Wilhelm were researchers and tried to write the stories they heard word for word. Therefore, their tales are more cruel than instructive. On Jacob Grimm's birthday, "Evening" has collected five fairy tales that should be read only by adults.

1. "The Girl Without Hands" (1812)
One day the miller asked the devil for wealth, and he asked in return for what was from the miller behind the house. There was a miller's daughter, whom the devil tried to take away, but the girl turned out to be too pure in soul, so Satan could not take her with him to hell. Then he ordered the miller to cut off his daughter's hands. The miller obediently chops off the girl's hands, after which she leaves the house, wanders until the king falls in love with her, who takes her as his wife. They have a son, and the king, meanwhile, is at war in a distant country. The devil substitutes for the letters, and the king receives news that his wife has given birth to a puppy. The unclean person will change the king's answer, and the queen is expelled. She lives with her son in the forest, her arms grow, and seven years later the king finds her and they return to the palace. And in some versions of this tale, the miller chops off his daughter's arms and breasts for refusing to marry him.

2. "The Thief in the Thorns" (1815)
The title of this tale uses a word that simultaneously denotes both "thief" and "Jew". Malk buys a magic pipe, and everyone who hears it starts dancing. The boy finds a Jew (whose name is Jew) and makes him dance on a bush until he gives him all the money. They want to hang the boy, but he takes out his pipe and does not stop playing until the Jew confesses that he himself stole the gold. The Jew, of course, is executed.

3. "The Bridegroom the Robber" (1812)
The groom of a girl lives far away in the Wailing Forest, in a creepy house. The girl does not find his home, and saddened, she walks around the house. Suddenly, an old woman approaches the girl, who says that her beloved is in fact a cruel cannibal who lures the girls to him and then eats them. Of course, the girl does not believe, and then the old woman hides her. When the groom returns home with another terrified victim, which he brutally kills and eats right raw, the girl's eyes open. She escapes from a terrible hut and ponders how to deal with the killer. After thinking, the girl invites the groom to dinner at her father's house. The cannibal arrives, hoping to get another mouth-watering victim soon. And then the police grab him.

4. "Juniper tree"
The evil stepmother queen offers her stepson an apple. In order to take it, the boy must climb into a giant chest. When he opens the chest, his stepmother cuts off his head with a lid. Wanting to disguise the crime, she ties the boy's head to the body with a handkerchief. But soon her own daughter knocks her head off, who is now sure that she is to blame for the death of her half-brother. The queen and her daughter come up with a cunning plan, prepare a bloody pudding from the body and serve the king for dinner. However, the boy's soul turns into a bird, and, driven by revenge, throws a large stone on his stepmother's head, which kills her on the spot.

5. "Poor boy in the grave" (1843)
An orphan boy ends up in the house of a wealthy married couple. They beat him, starve him, and scoff at the baby in every possible way. Then he decides to commit suicide. But he is an uneducated orphan boy, so he does not know what the poison looks like and what it tastes like. Therefore, instead of poisoning, he eats honey and drinks wine. Convinced that he is mortally poisoned, a well-fed and drunk boy lies in the grave, prepares for death and dies.

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

1. "Bluebeard". 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 in front of 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 gets ready to go, Bluebeard emphasizes that the wife can visit any place in the castle except the basement. Then he gives her the key to the basement. Just a feast of fucking logic!

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 are hanging from hooks from the ceiling. The blue beard comes back instantly (probably waiting outside with his ear to the door). He announces his intention to kill her, but his wife is saved at the last moment, with the help of two brothers, who killed Bluebeard.

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

"Torturing women. Without reason or logic. This is wonderful!"The Brothers Grimm.

2. "Thief in the thorns". Interesting Facts those associated with this tale begin directly with the title. The fact is that its original name Der Jude im Dorn is practically the same, only not "thief", but "Jew". That, by the standards of translators of a fairy tale, is practically the same. That is, with the correct translation, the name of the tale sounds like "The Jew in the Thorns". The plot of the tale is simple, the boy buys a magic violin that makes everyone who hears its sounds dance endlessly. The boy wasted no time finding a Jew (called "Jew") and uses the violin to make him dance in the bush. Probably, simply because this story was written in Germany. He orders the Jew to give 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 starts playing the violin. Probably, it was only after this that they thought of searching the prisoners sentenced to death. He refuses to stop playing until the Jew admits that it was he who stole the gold, and the judge ordered the Jew to be hanged instead of the German boy, since he was not a thief. Surely Hatton Gibson made the right decision to put Grimm's tales high on the shelf while little Mel was fast asleep. But someone gave him the Bible to read.

3. "The Robber Groom". The girl makes an unexpected visit to her fiancé, following the trail from the ashes to 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 hunts young women, kills and eats them. Probably, no one explained to him that they perfectly replace a sock.

The old woman hides the girl. Further, the groom returns with various frightened ladies, whom he butcher 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 tastier than irony), where he is arrested. If you like horror movies, the plot of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm will seem banal to you. Your child's brain will be broken.

4. "The Tale of the Juniper". The boy agrees to treat himself to an apple, which the evil stepmother offers him. The only thing is that 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 so, we will write about you too. Naturally, the lid slams shut and the boy's head rips off. Why "natural"? Just because this is a fairy tale about a juniper and these are the brothers Grimm!

5. "Poor fellow in the grave".The orphan falls into the hands of a wealthy couple, who swept him for the slightest offense and tormented him with hunger. (no, the owl from Hogwarts never came to him). He decides to commit suicide, wine and honey with poison, justifying this act by the fact that his abusive adoptive parents will never be sent to school. Drunk and well fed, he lies down in the grave. Then he dies. Moral: stupidity

Even in an adapted version, they alert psychologists, and unadapted plots can damage the psyche of adults.

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and his younger brother William even in their youth they became members of the circle of romantics. The purpose of the circle was to revive the interest of adults and children in the ancient culture and literature of Germany, in folk art. The brothers became famous for their fairy tales, but first of all they were professional linguists.

Brothers tales to us Grimm got very adapted. Primary sources are distinguished by rare bloodthirstiness, and if you are interested in the deep meaning of famous fairy tales, your hair will stand on end. Some of the works, if you think about it, are so terrible that even a serious adaptation does not make them suitable for children to read. Especially if you involve psychologists in the interpretation of plots.

"Snow White": cruelty and cannibalism

In the original version of the tale, the queen orders the unfortunate girl, who is only to blame for being very beautiful, to be taken to the forest, to kill there, and then to bring the entrails of the young beauty to the queen - the liver and lungs. The servant, who received the order, took the girl into the forest, but could not kill - he regretted it.

However, it was necessary to provide the queen with evidence of the committed atrocity, and the servant, without hesitation, brings her a deer's lung and liver. The Queen, in order to fully enjoy her victory, solemnly eats internal organswhat she thinks is a hated beauty.

According to the followers of the school of psychology Carl Gustav Jung, in the fabulous image of the evil queen, the archetype of the shadow is displayed, symbolizing the dark side of any person.

For their part, American psychologists concluded that the fairy tale "Snow White" is harmful to girls, as it teaches them to take external beauty too seriously, to pay excessive attention to it. After all, it is the beauty of Snow White in the fairy tale that is her main virtue, for her she suffered, for her and receives an award at the end.

"Hansel and Gretel": cruelty of adults and children, cannibalism

Everything in this tale is terrible, from beginning to end. Little children, brother and sister, the own father, obeying his wife, the stepmother of the unfortunate crumbs, sends them to the forest to certain death, because, you see, there is nothing to feed them. Children are captured by a terrible forest witch who does not disdain cannibalism. The old woman makes the girl refuse

feed your brother like a Christmas goose to eat later.

But even worse are the images of children. At first it is a pity for them, but then the reader realizes with horror: the kids are still those monsters! Gretel cunningly lures her jailer - the forest witch - into the oven and in cold blood burns the old woman alive. Resourceful and cruel children, having completed the execution, rob the old woman's house and return home laden with good, which later allows them to live comfortably with their father. The stepmother suddenly dies. Experts believe that in essence, in this tale, the stepmother and the wicked witch are one and the same person.

Such a bloodthirsty plot is probably inspired by the Great Famine, which broke out in Europe in 1315-1317. Then, according to rumors that have come down to our time, cannibalism was widespread in cities and villages, and many parents, desperate to feed their children, really drove them out of the house into the forest, hoping that they themselves would somehow feed themselves.

"Cinderella": self-torture for the sake of future happiness and self-harm

First, the fairy tale consistently sets the girls up to the idea that if you resignedly endure all the humiliations and be submissive and hardworking, sooner or later a prince on a white horse will appear on the horizon and the hardworking timid girl will be rewarded for her efforts. Many people believe.

Secondly, the tale is replete with bloodthirsty episodes. Cinderella's older sister, trying to fit into too small a shoe and become the prince's wife, on the advice of her mother, cuts off her big toe. Mother says to her - they say, it's okay, but you will become a queen, and then you will not have to walk, you will ride in a carriage!

Blood flows like a river, the prince notices and refuses to marry the deceiver. The second sister decides to amputate her heel, but the result is the same.

Interestingly, psychologists preaching methods Sigmund Freud, interpret Cinderella's crystal transparent shoe as a symbol of innocence. Well, then the described manipulations with the shoe become clearer: the innocent and pure Cinderella has no rivals.

"Little Red Riding Hood": a cruel retribution for violation of the rules of conduct

There are two versions of Little Red Riding Hood: Charles Perraultdescribed the chilling adventures of a gullible girl who was punished for her frivolity by a terrible death in the mouth of a hungry wolf, the brothers Grimm gave the girl life, adding to the tale the woodcutters who ripped the wolf's belly open and saved the grandmother and her granddaughter. And yet such a punishment for an innocent, in essence, offense - the desire to talk to a stranger, seems excessive.

Both versions are based on an old legend that leaves Little Red Riding Hood no chance of salvation. In the original, the wolf not only eats the girl who has violated the rules of behavior, he first invites her to undress, then throw her clothes into the fire, and then lie down next to him in bed. This is followed by punishment - an act of cannibalism. Morality is on the surface.

"Death in godfathers": resignation to fate, hopelessness, fatalism

Poor father of 13 children invited herself to godfather Death: after all, it makes everyone equal - both the poor and the rich. As a reward for his trust, Death helped him by advising him to become a doctor and promising his help. The poor man came to examine the patient and saw his godfather: if Death stood at the patient's head, it was necessary to give him herbs, and he recovered, if in the legs, then nothing will help this patient. Death, however, warned: you cannot go against her will and try to treat hopeless patients. The poor man disobeyed, and Death extinguished the candle of his life as punishment.

The fairy tale, of course, is terrible. But it is not surprising if we recall the Gothic stories of the peoples of Western Europe. And in general, she repeats their plots, describing the attitude ordinary people to life and death. Called Death to the role of the godmother? This means that he gives the fate of his child to the will of higher powers. The child is raised by Death itself: a tribute to the medieval gloom inherent in the subjects of those years. Finally, morality: no one can deceive Death, even if it is in your godfathers.

Everyone loves small stories and people, animals and mythical creatures: both children and adults. However, there is a category of fairy tales that literally excites the human imagination. Sometimes the eternal rivalry between good and evil takes such forms that readers or listeners of such a work of human thought experience an involuntary shiver. Exists a series of scary talesthat can drive the audience to anxiety, deprive them of sleep and make them afraid of the onset of darkness. It's time to pay attention to the most shocking ones.

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The goose princess

The story of how a representative of a noble family goes to meet a charming prince. An evil servant, using a witch's potion, achieves complete obedience from her Lord. The intruder finds herself in the royal palace, and the unfortunate bride is sent to graze the birds. A talking horse, which has become an unwitting witness to a crime, awaits a terrible death. They chop off her head and hang her over the city gates. Suddenly, the animal begins to talk, informing everyone about the atrocity.

When everyone finds out about the deception, the deceiver is put into a barrel, from which sharp nails stick out. The violator of the law dies in terrible agony.

Peter Pan

The fact that for many years children in Neutlandia remain young suggests that they have long since left the world of the living. An extremely difficult moment is when a boy takes a girl he likes to a distant country so that she can perform maternal duties for him and his friends. However, later, a love relationship develops between her and the adopted child, which cannot seem normal.

Hans the hedgehog man

When a person is born with clear signs of mutation, this is a great grief for parents. The unfortunate creature is sent to the forest, where he will be exposed to dangers. The fact that the boy was entrusted with herding pigs suggests that the author does not condemn the use of child labor.

Having met two kings at the place of a new job, the child is confronted with unreasonable anger. His first acquaintance orders to kill all children who are like him. But he does not remain in debt, and in a terrible way takes revenge on his offender. He pricks the naked body of the princess with his needles, most likely it is about rape.

The second monarch gives his daughter for him. The hero has to flay his skin alive so as not to offend his other half. It is difficult to imagine what pain the unfortunate person experiences.

sleeping Beauty

The girl falls into a coma from an injection of an unknown plant. She is forced to lie without medical care and care for 100 years in an abandoned castle. A stranger of royal blood passing by began to harass the lifeless young lady, which awakened her to life. The girl was forced to marry the first person she met, whom she saw for the first time in her life. So it's far in the world.

Three snake leaves

The princess, mentally ill, proposes to marry only someone who agrees to be walled up with her in the crypt. When the volunteer is found, the cruel courtiers send the couple alive to the grave. When a young man manages to resurrect his narrowed one with the help of snake leaves, she basely betrays him. The reprisal against the traitor is short - she and her lover on a fragile boat are sent to the open sea, to certain death.

Pinocchio

The one who created the wooden doll is cruel to his child. As a result, the child is forced to wander and lead an asocial lifestyle.

Rare bird

The story of a maniac who kidnapped girls and forced them to hatch an egg. There was a secret room in the house, where the corpses of previous victims were. When the curious beauty got there, she dropped her yatsyo, which automatically made her the next. The story ended sadly for the tormentor, he was brutally killed by the relatives of one of the victims.

Three pigs

The wild beast destroys houses and destroys defenseless animals one by one. In the case of the third brother, he tries to enter the room through the chimney and is cooked alive in a boiling cauldron.

Singing bone

The two brothers are sent into the forest to kill a wild animal. One carries out a mission, but an envious relative brutally kills him. In order to hide the traces of the crime, he buries the body in the ground. After some time, a tree grows at the burial site. The shepherd, hurting the plant, cuts off a branch and makes from it musical instrument, thanks to which everyone will know about what happened. The offender is brutally killed without trial or investigation.