Topic: the truth about sleeping beauty

[IORIâ„¢]

Sleeping Beauty-A fairy tale of rape and cannibalism.

A beautiful tale in which they all live happily ever after. Think again, it's not always true.

Giambattista Basile wrote Il Pentamerone (the Tale of Tales), also known as Lo cunto de le cunti. They were published in 1634, 1635 and 1636 respectively. It contains the original Sleeping Beauty-Talia's tale. The existence in this collection, albeit in sometimes substantially different versions, shows that the tales did exist in oral tradition and influenced Basile’s writing almost 400 years ago. By 1812, the Grimm brothers had assembled their famous collection of stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Grimm’s Tales went through seven editions as the brothers watered down the stories to make them more suitable for children. Early versions of Sleeping Beauty only bore a vague resemblance to our well known modern version. The story of Sleeping Beauty, representative of the harshness portrayed in early versions of our popular fairy tales, goes as follows:

Wise men warned the great King that his daughter Talia was in grave danger – there was poison in the palace’s flax. A ban was put on flax but as expected, Talia still ran across a splinter while spinning flax on the flax-spinning wheel. In great despair, the king placed her sleeping (or dead) body on a velvet cloth and left her in the forest.

Some time later, a rich nobleman was hunting in the woods when he ran across the abandoned body of Sleeping Beauty. Far from planting a kiss, the nobleman instead raped her sleeping body, from which resulted a pregnancy. Nine months later, Sleeping Beauty gave birth to two children (and named them Sun and Moon) and the forest fairies took care of them while Sleeping Beauty continued her slumber. Whilst placing the babies to Sleeping Beauty’s bosom, one of the children accidentally mistook her thumb for a nipple and sucked out the poison splinter. Talia awoke from her deep sleep.

Months later, the nobleman decided to return to the woods to have more sex with Sleeping Beauty’s body when to his surprise, he found her awake. The nobleman confesses that he raped her and they again had sex in the barn. The nobleman then returns home to his wife.

The nobleman’s wife found out about the sexual encounter and ordered the children be kidnapped and cooked alive. The cook prepared the fiendish disk and served it to the rich nobleman at his dinner. As the nobleman finished his meal, the wife boldly announced “you are eating what is your own!”. Alas, as it turns out, the cook had a soft heart and instead of killing and cooking the children, he substituted a goat instead. Talia and the children and her rapist new love interest lived happily ever after.

[voyager_]

kalokohan 

[beaverjohn2006]

kalokohan 

totoo yan bro, nung unang panahon. hik!hik!hik!

[Belphegor]

maraming fairy tale ang "gruesome" ang mga first edition, then edited or changed para maging "wholesome"
http://listverse.com/2009/01/06/9-gruesome-fairy-tale-origins/

[IORIâ„¢]

lol .. they ruin our child hood story telling   

[zensuke101]

the old story that never dies

[raberdaki]

childhood ruined! 

[Pierro7]

hidni ba si Snow White muna ang ni-rape? 

[arwin_absinthe]

Halos lahat naman ng mga fairy tale ng disney, ganyan ang kwento. Iniba lang nila para child friendly.