This is National Tell a Fairytale Day. If you decide to
share a fairytale with a child today, you may want to proofread it first. Hansel
and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their parents - twice. Then, when a
witch captures and threatens to eat them, Gretel pushes her into a hot oven. Several
variations of Cinderella have the stepsisters mutilating their feet
so the glass slipper will fit. Then they're blinded by birds. In Snow White, a jealous queen hires a hit man
to cut out her stepdaughter’s heart.
Later
she is forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes. The giant in Jack and
the Beanstalk threatens, “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.” The Little Red Riding Hood we all know is gruesome enough. But the original French version ends with the girl being eaten. The only one who lives happily ever after is the wolf.
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