I live a fairy tale life, unfortunately the author is german.
This is pretty grimm.
Sleeping Beauty was such a lovely cartoon.
Looks up original story
Oh no...
The reason for the dark storied in the original fairy tales is to teach a lesson, to stand as a warning for children intimidated by them. There is so much educational content in them which Disney cut out, stripping the tales from their original purpose. That's (one of the reasons) why I hate Disney.
That but it was also just a depiction closer to reality: for instance famine and starvation were a common theme in Grimm's collection of tales (Hänsel & Gretel, the star money, etc). But in the modern world [industrialized west] we know longer have a direct cultural experience of it.
Similarly gone down have:
Learn your rules. You better learn your rules...
Check out “The Storyteller” on Amazon Prime for some well-told German folk tales.
I didn’t know that picture of Patrick existed.
TIHI
the older versions are much cooler 99% of the time anyway
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