This Day in History: Today is National Tell A Fairy Tale Day. Today's retelling of fairy tales do not accurately retell the truer original tales that reflected a darker more violent world. For instance, in “Cinderella” the evil stepsisters cut off their toes in order to make the slipper fit, and later have their eyes pecked out by birds; in “The Six Swans” an evil mother-in-law is burned at the stake; in “The Goose Maid” a girl is stripped naked, thrown into a barrel filled with nails and dragged through the streets; and in “Snow White” the wicked queen dies after being forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes. Sleeping Beauty was actually raped and Pinocchio was hanged, the queen in Snow White was actually a cannibal, and in the Frog Prince the frog is turned back into human form by having its head cut off, or by being slammed into a wall.
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