3 bedtime stories you should never tell your kids!

Maybe some of you already know this, then again some of you might not. To all of those who don't know i ask, are you ready to find out the dark inspiration behind our favorite Disney movies?

What would happen if you found out  that the stories  we've  grown so fondly to were actually meant to be told in a entirely different way. A dark way. What would happen if Eric didn't end up marrying Ariel or if Aurora wasn't awoken my a sweet kiss from her prince. What if there were no happy endings?

The little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Rapunzel among others were not written originally by Walt Disney. They were written by Charles Perrault,  the German Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Reader beware, their stories may cause use goosebumps. Each story is creepier than the other.

  

1. Sleeping Beauty



One of the creepiest tales is the one of Sleeping Beauty.  In the original version Aurora was not awoken by tender kisses from her sweet prince. The reason behind her eyes opening was due to her giving birth to twins, one boy and one girl. Their names were Sun and Luna. One of the babies suckled on her finger, removing the splinter which ended the curse, and woke the princess from her slumber.

So how did Sleeping Beauty end up being pregnant? Yup. You guessed it. One day a Prince stumbled across what he thought was an empty castle only to find a sleeping maiden. He tried to wake her up but no matter what he tried, she remained in a deep slumber. So he takes advantage of her and rapes her.

The prince returns to the castle only to find that the princess is a awake and she is not alone, Luna and Sun are with her. The prince was overjoyed. He told Thalia (Sleeping Beauty name in this version) who he was and how he knew her and what had happened. So Thalia and the prince end up falling in love. If rape isn't a red flag i don't know what is.

But that's not the worst part. The prince is married. And of course his wife has to find out  about this bizarre affair. She is set on getting revenge and ends up setting a chef to cook Thalia's infants. Thankfully the cook takes mercy on the babies and decides to kill a goat instead. 

So the prince, Thalia and the kids run off together and live happily ever after. Oh yeah and they get married too. There's and even creepier version where Sleeping Beauty's rapist is her own father.

2. The Little Mermaid

The little mermaid is one of the saddest tales. She really did give it all for love. Ariel lays eyes on a human prince and just like in Disney's version, it is love at first sight. For her anyway. She first sees Eric on a boat which ends up splitting in half. Titanic ll? Ariel rescues the prince from drowning and basically stalks him every following day. 

The human world is fascinating to the little mermaid and she wishes to be part of it.  So she makes it possible by visiting the sea witch. Familiar so far right? Well here is were things get interesting. The sea witch gave the little mermaid a potion that would turn her fish tail into a pair of human legs. But beware said the witch, each step you take will be like walking on razor sharp swords. The little mermaid didn't mind for she was deeply in love with the prince, she would do anything for him. Even abandon her sister's and father. If she were to drink the potion she could never return to her family. She could never again be a mermaid.

As the story goes nothing is free. Ariel had a lovely voice and it was to be used as payment. But the way the sea witch obtains it is not rated G. Stick out you're tongue child she said, and so the little mermaid did. Chop chop chop! 

So the voiceless mermaid sets of in hopes of finding her prince. Not only must she find him but she must also marry him. If someone else were to marry him she would die the day after. And what do you know? He does marry another princess but only because he believes this is the girl who saved him from drowning. Ariel has no voice so she cannot tell him the truth.

Ariel's sister's appear in the ocean and tell her that they have sold their hair to the sea witch. They have found a way for her to live. In exchange for their hair they have received a sharp knife. Ariel must kill her sweet prince with this knife inserting it right through his heart. Ariel loves her prince so much that she'd rather die than kill the man she loves. So she dies and turns into sea foam.

3. Cinderella

Cinderella was a very humble person. When her father went away on a trip he asked her what she wanted him to bring her. Cinderella asked only for a branch from a hazel bush while her step sisters asked for beautiful dresses, jewels and gold. 

She planted the branch her father gave her on top of her mother's graves. She would water it with her tears. The branch became a beautiful tree. Cinderella didn't exactly have a fairy godmother, she had a pretty white bird. It would appear at the tree every time she wished for something and it would bring her anything she wished for. 

In the Grimm brothers version of Cinderella there was no glass slipper, it was actually a gold slipper. Like in the Disney version the prince searched high and low to find the owner of the slipper but he really didn't do a good job. He was easily fooled.

Cinderella's stepsisters cut off pieces of there feet just so they could fit into the shoe. One of the sister's cut of the heel of her foot and the other cut of her big toe. So apparently what we have here are two gold diggers who really want to marry the prince. 

Since the shoe did fit the stepsisters the prince really did believe each girl was in fact Cinderella but as soon as he would put the girls upon his horse the birds would notify the prince of the scam they tried to pull off. Due to the cutting of the foot, the girls would bleed and when the prince noticed the blood it was game over for those two. 

It took a while but finally the prince found the rightful owner of the shoe, Cinderella. And he double checked for blood, just in case.

The prince and Cinderella wedded. Cinderella's step sisters attended the wedding with hopes of getting her good fortune. Pigeons decided to punish them for there wrong doing and left the sisters forever blind.

So thank god for friendly Disney versions right? 

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The forgotten Disney princesses

Who said being a princess was all glamour?  These lovely lady's are often forgotten and they are not the least bit pleased. What do Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine and all the other princesses have that they don't? Read the whole article to find out! ;)
CAUTION: SPOILER ALERT to anyone who hasn't seen the movies below.

1. Princess Vanellope

People usually identify Snow White (1937) as the youngest member of the Princess bunch but this information was only once upon a time true. Snow White held the record for youngest princess (14 years old) for the longest time, but her record was sub passed by a few new princesses. One of them being, Vanellope from Wreck it Ralph. Her age isn't exactly established in the movie but she's between the ages of 7-9 years old. 

Poor Vanellope is bullied by mostly everyone in her town since she is what people call a glitch.  She isn't fully there, she half disappears and then reappears at random moments. This was the doing of Turbo who is actually King Candy. He tried to delete Vanellope's code so he can rule the land but he failed and instead transformed her into a glitch.

Towards the end of the movie, Vanellope actually finds out she is the rightful ruler of  Sugar Rush, in other words she is a princess. She feels being a princess just isn't her, no pink fluffy dresses for her! Instead she returns to her hoodie and decides to be named the president of Sugar Rush. She's too cool for princess! ;)

2. Princess Melody

It isn't hard to see who's daughter this is. That black hair, thick eyebrows, blue eyes and bone structure. Not to mention the mermaid tail and that beautiful singing voice. This young princess (12 years old) is no other than Ariel and prince Eric's daughter, Melody. She appears in the sequel to The little Mermaid; The Little Mermaid ll: Return to the Sea.

A side from being in an awkward stage in her life, being a pre-teen and all she doesn't quite feel like she belongs. Melody's is strongly attracted to the sea and doesn't understand why her mother Ariel doesn't want her near it. She often talks to sea creatures such as Scuttle the seagull and Sebastian the crab. Kids her age tease her for this. Melody names herself the princess of disaster and doesn't understand why she is so different.

She later discovers that she and her mother are more alike than she thought. They both share a love for the sea as it is part  of them. Melody learns that Ariel was only trying to protect her from the evil sea witch Morgana. Once Morgana is vanished the wall that kept melody away from the ocean is destroyed and land and sea are reunited. 

3. Princess Elionwy

We can see this young princess in Disney's The Black Caldron (1985). This little lady has quite a mouth on her. She's very talkative and believes girls can do anything boys can do, which they can. Eilonwy is only 13 years old. In the movie she is captured by the Horned King in hopes that she will use her Magic Bauble (pretty orb thing) to locate the black cauldron.  

She first meets Taran (the boy below) while she is looking for a way out of the castle. Eilonwy decides to let Taran follow her. Yup! That's right this "girl" is no damsel in distress. 

Eilonwy is headstrong and brave. She is also quite fond of Gurgi (the cute dog). Towards the end of the movie Eilonwy and Taran end up kissing with a little push from Gurgi.



4. Kida Nedakh

Whoa! We can clearly see that this girl has got some moves! Yet another princess who is not a damsel in distress. Kida is fierce, she is not only stunningly beautiful but she is also a warrior. We can see her in Disney's 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and in it's 2003 sequel Milo's Return. Kida resembles someone in there late teens or early 20's but in reality she is the oldest princess of all time. Kida is roughly 8,500-8,800 at least according to Milo.  

Thanks to the Atlantean crystal Kida and the rest of her people are able to live abnormally long lives.

Kida is the daughter of the king of Atlantis but later on becomes queen due to her fathers death (her mother scarified her life to save her kingdom in the prologue movie). So no. Elsa is not the first princess to inherit her parent's throne and become queen. 

5. Kiari (Kingdom Hearts)

Kiari belong to the game Kingdom Hearts, which is a mix of Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters. In the game Maleficent controls all villains and heartless (evil minions who steal hearts, they are created from darkness). She needs seven princesses of pure heart in order to open up the path to Kingdom Hearts. Theses princesses are Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Jasmine, Alice and the seventh princess is Kiari. The union of the seven opens a door to darkness.

Kiari's best friends are Sora (brown hair) and Riku (white hair). she met them when she appeared washed up at shore. Kiari is from another world and isnt sure how she ended up at Sora and Riku's world. The 3 kids decide to go explore new worlds together. 

Kiari is sweet, compassionate, courageous and would do absolutely anything for her friends as they would for her. In the first game she is 14 years old. 

So what do Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella and all the rest of the of the princesses  from the Disney franchise have that these lovely ladies don't have? It's very simple. It's not that Kida, Vanellope, Kiari, Eilonwy and Melody aren't awesome because they are. So why aren't they official Disney princesses? It has do with the money each movie made. If the film does not do well in the box office then Disney does not invest more on those films. So that means no publicity stunts and no merchandising. That is why we never see theses characters at Disneyworld or Disneyland. 

If you really like any of these Disney Princesses then its up to you to change that. The fans always have the power! :)