Many of the tales we know almost by heart, have undergone a lot of changes before they became world-famous. Today we tell the children, but not always they were intended for children's ears.

Quite often these centuries-old history of different cultures passed from mouth to mouth in taverns or at the campfire, where there participated children, diverting tired of peasants hard work.

Many of them were far from harmless story with a happy ending, but rather resembled plots for horror movies.

Here are 5 versions of well-known fairy tales, which you did not know:

"Krasnaya Shapochka"

In history, on the basis of which Perrault has created a version of tales "Krasnaya Shapochka" 1697, wolf, disguised as a grandmother, which he recently swallowed, was a werewolf. It offers little red riding hood to undress and will join him in bed, throwing clothes into the fire. According to some versions of the wolf eats girl when she is with him in bed, and the fairy tale ends. On the other Red riding hood said the wolf that she needed the toilet and she don't want to do "it" in bed, and then the girl managed to escape.

Perhaps this is a more positive end of the story than in version Perrault, when a girl eats a wolf, or the first version of the brothers Grimm 1812,by which the man frees her and her grandmother, cutting the stomach wolf.

Mirror"

In the story told by the brothers Grimm in 1812, jealous mother (not stepmother!) Snow white sends Rangers that he brought lung and liver girls that mother was going to pickle, cook and eat.

Also in the Grimm brothers ' fairy tales included punishment cruel mother. In the story she appears at the wedding of snow white in red-hot iron shoes and dancing in them until you drop dead.

"Cinderella"

In the 7th edition of the collection of the brothers Grimm 1857, the plot was much darker than what we learned in the retelling of Charles Perrault 200 years earlier. In this version stepsisters Cinderella beautiful and evil, as their stepmother in despair at being unable to get into the Golden slipper, cut off his own finger (the first sister) and heel (the other sister) .

Pigeons notice that the shoes filled with blood. The Prince understands that Cinderella is the only, while the pigeons peck eyes sisters and mother for their evil deeds.

"Pinocchio"

In the original story, written by Carlo Collodi, and published in 1883, Pinocchio falls asleep before the fire, and his feet burned, before killing the Speaker of the cricket, which it receives, with a wooden hammer.

After that Pinocchio turn into a donkey tied to a stone and throw off a cliff. Before that the buyer buys Pinocchio in the ass in order to make the hides the drum. Throughout history harassed, bullied and put in prison.

"The sleeping beauty"

The collection of fairy tales, 1634 Italian storyteller Giambattista Basile, one of the first recorded tales, later retold by Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm, the girl under the nail gets fiber flax, which she had pricked, and from which she falls asleep.

The Prince, who found the Sleeping beauty, believes it so irresistible that rapes her, in spite of a dead sleep. Nine months later she twins are also in the dream. Awakens same beauty only after one of the kids in search of breast sticks her finger and pulls out fiber.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk