As a young girl I used to go and stay with my cousin's family for a week during the school holidays - she had a Grimm's Fairy Tale Book and my favourite story was that of Rapunzel which I used to re-read every time I visited. Something reminded me of that just recently but I couldn't remember much of the story, so I looked it up and this is what I found. A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an enchantress. The wife, experiencing the cravings…

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From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the popular fairy tales that shape our happily ever afters

1. In the original German ending of the fairy tale "Snow White," the evil queen is compelled to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance until she succumbs to death.

Restoring the Lost Sense

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Every fairy tale has an original story behind it. Some of these fairy tale origins, as would be unexpected, are very gruesome or just outright scary. In this article, we will go through some of the horrific but true fairy tale origins that often go unnoticed or simply unknown.

These common fairy tales are among the most tragic when it comes to the underlying stories from which they came.