This isn't Disney's version......

[Marie5656]

+- Bizarre Facts About the Original Version of Snow White -+

The Grimm fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is
much different from the Disney version. Here are some
examples of how the tale was different:

The Queen doesn't ask for Snow White's heart - she wants the
princess's lungs and liver. When the hunter brings her the
boar's innards, the Queen - thinking they're Snow White's -
has them boiled in salt and eats them.

In the original story, the Queen tries to kill Snow White
three times. The first two attempts fail. Since the Queen
uses the same disguise all three times, we have to assume
Snow White is a little short in the brains department.

The dwarfs - who don't have cute names - do put Snow White
in a glass coffin. But the Prince doesn't wake her with a
kiss. In fact, kissing her never enters his mind. He just
thinks she's pretty (albeit dead), and wants to keep her
around his castle.

On the way back to the castle, servants carrying the casket
trip and drop it. This dislodges the poison apple from Snow
White's throat and she's revived.

In this tale, the Queen makes it back to her castle after
apparently killing Snow White. A little later, she's
invited to a wedding. The wedding, it turns out, is Snow
White's. When the Queen arrives, Snow and the Prince have
a pair of red-hot iron shoes waiting in the fireplace. The
Queen is forced to wear the shoes and dance until she drops
dead.

[From Uncle John's 4-Ply Bathroom Reader]

Many fairy tales started out as folk stories, passed down verbally from generation to generation. They always change a little as they go, and I guess we ended up with the version that we know today!
Most of them come from some mythology or another, they're meant to have some meaning that you have to figure out.

[chonsigirl]

In the real story of the Little Mermaid she dies, of a broken heart. It is very sad to read Anderson's real story about it. My daughters did when they were young, and they cried. It wasn't Ariel, the pretty one dancing under the sea in the Disney movie.

I read that when I was younger too Chonsi...the bit about being able to have human feet gets me. As long as she can walk on two legs she's cursed to feel like she's walking on shards of glass. All that for true love.
I guess the message is right enough...you'd put yourself through any pains for the one you love, even if it turns out to not be worth it.

[chonsigirl]

Ah, like shards of glass...........as I sit here writing a poem about such things.........

*have to double task you know*

He just thinks she's pretty (albeit dead), and wants to keep her
around his castle.

He's a freak, super freak.

Uh huh...oh boy, that's men for ya!
I think I've given up thnking that they're just like us ya know.
Talk about Victorian values!

[chonsigirl]

Yeah, that whole glass coffin thing was strange now that you think of it...............

Like that pic of the dead wife in the coffee table!

Mmm. Weird.
I'm not going to comment on what I think about that as it will undoubtably get me into trouble.

[Marie5656]

Originally Posted by chonsigirl

Yeah, that whole glass coffin thing was strange now that you think of it...............
Like that pic of the dead wife in the coffee table!

Does anyone remember the film, Dr Zhivago, from back in the 60's? I remember an early scene, when Omar Shariff's character was a child and his mother died. I have a strong recollection of her being carried in a glass coffin.