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King Thrushbeard

AlduinAlduin
edited 2014-01-15 08:55:50 in General
I dug up a book about fairy-tales and wow, some of this shit is really screwed up, huh.

Did anyone else think that King Thrushbeard's plot to teach his wife humility was a bit, I dunno, stalkerish? I mean he teamed up with her dad and they both planned everything that would happen to her from then on, right down to the most minute detail. Isn't that kind of obsessive and controlling?

Also the one where a king tries to rape his own daughter and Cinderella being about foot mutilation. 

Comments

  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Disney
  • Miss Miko MayoneggMiss Miko Mayonegg
    More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    The Disney versions are just a teensy bit bowdlerized, usually. ^_^
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Most early fairy tales were for adults, not children. Keep that in mind.
  • AlduinAlduin
    So you're saying that instead of cautionary tales for children, they were moral guidelines for adults?

    ...that doesn't make anything better.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Not necessarily moral guidelines. Just stories to tell around the fire, sometimes to scare each other.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Sredni Vashtar said:

    Not necessarily moral guidelines. Just stories to tell around the fire, sometimes to scare each other.


    Maybe even a bit like creepypasta.
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