Storie. Grimm Brothers.

Okay look, this blog's life is really running out, and no one is really interested in this place anymore. So for today, i won't tell the usual 'good stories' and make a change. Just let me tell you, I came to read this huge 431 page literature book titled "The annonated Brothers Grimm." In case you don't noe, the Grimm Brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were two german brothers who wrote our fairy tales, including Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

But the stories that they wrote were true works of literature. And the modern versions that we now read are very much changed, because the original works were actually a little too horrible for children to read.

For example, in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", the evil Queen doesnt actually simply fall off a cliff and 'is never seen again' as told in the Disney stories, but in truth she pays one more visit to Snow white and the prince in their palace, and Snow white forces the Queen to wear 'Red-Hot iron shoes which had been heated for many days in burning coals" and was made to "dance until she dropped dead'. Such is the horror and the macbre of the original 'Fairy Tales' that the Grimm Brothers wrote. It truly proves to be an interesting book though, revealing the true nature of the classic fairy tales.

Here i shall provide a very short story of theirs, though not one of the popular ones.

Title: How the Children Played Butcher

A man once slaughtered a pig while his children were looking on. When they started playing in the afternoon, one child said to the other, "You be the little pig, and i'll be the butcher!" whereupon he took an open blade and thrust it into his brother's neck. Their mother, who was upstairs in a room bathing the youngest child in a tub, heard the cries of the other child, quickly ran downstairs, and when she saw what had happened, drew the knife out of the child's neck, and in a rage, thrust it into the heart of the other child who had played the butcher. She then rushed back to the house to see what her other child had been doing in the tub, but in the meantime it had already drowned in the bath. The woman was so horrified that she fell into a state of utter despair, refused to be consoled by the servants, and hanged herself. When her husband returned home from the fields and saw this, he was so distraught that he died shortly after.

The (very happy ever after) End.


That is the horror that our "fairy tale" writers were capable of, more than two hundred years ago...and they also incorporated it into the common fairy tales, as i have told you earlier on about 'Snow White and the seven dwarves". So enjoy as I post more Grimm Brothers Stories over the next few days...