The Messed Up REAL Story Behind Cinderella

The real story behind Disney's Cinderella.
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"Cinderella" is a story we all think we know. The tale of how a poor, mistreated girl, gets the blessing of her fairy godmother and wins the heart of the handsome prince after losing her glass slipper is popular across the world. It has inspired books, songs, plays, and two Disney movies. But did you know how the story came to be? It can be pretty dark, and not something you'd expect from a Disney princess. That is why, today, we are going to tell you The Disturbing Real Story Behind Cinderella.

Did you know that the first story of Cinderella comes from Ancient Greece, via Ancient Egypt? Yes, it's more than 2,000 years old, and you are going to find out about it here. We will also tell you some of the gory details of the stories that influenced the tale we know today. Keep watching until the end to hear how the story really finishes. Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe to TheThings!

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[jahjahdaniels]

I love how Disney lied to me with Pocahontas, like when i was 10 i said she was a made up character when i turn 13 she was in my history book i was like "she real"😂😂

[heyitsme]

That awkward moment you were like "should I watch this? Will it ruin my childhood?' then you watch a it and it didn't ruin your childhood just scared you

[tingandgang]

Disney always manages to put a positive spin on things

[xenia]

Teachers:- who taught u to lie?
Me-: *DIsNeY*

[jadeisacoolpotato]

Friend:*watches video.
Me:wat u watching
Friend: the Tru story of Cinderella
Me:Well, if the shoe fits why did it fall of?
Friend:*questions her existent

[rosehiptea]

In college, I studied a book that had 17 versions of the story. There are lessons to learn throughout life, so if things seem messed up, well, we have a lot of messes in this world, alongside the beautiful things that happen. We have choices to make about how to live, and what ignites our passions to make the world a better place. Stories can bring these lessons home to us, our children, and communities. "Dark stuff" is incredibly serious. Tell the stories that help form the consciences of our children.

[brianbailey]

Cinderella after getting married her sisters eyes got pecked out by birds

[sakku]

So your telling me that my whole childhood is a lie...😱

[bonixohd]

Yeah that is so true, most of them are absolutely messed up and disturbing.

[Motte_d_Waldfee]

I'm from Germany and have grown up with the brother Grimms story and still love this version the most.
And as a child I honestly don't notice something brutal or disturbing.



(and sorry for my bad English)

[kamilagalan]

Well here is the Chinese version: there was a girl named Yeh-Shen and her stepmother. Her stepmother wants fish but the fish only come out when Yeh-Shen was there. So the stepmother dressed up to look like her. She takes the fish home and eats it. An old man tells Yeh-Shen that the fishes bones are powerful, so Yeh-Shen gets the bones and goes to the festival that the king find one of her shoes and finds HER. After he realized how rudely the stepmother treated, he sent them away to love in darkness forever, and left Yeh-Shen to be Queen with him the

[cellcat]

No matter how the stories vary, we all know the Cinderella stories include murder and maiming.

[kerryberry]

I heard, that Cinderella’s original story, was that her step sisters SAWED off their heels, to fit the shoe. And some birds, are their eyes off.

[Yesterdaysmaybe]

I remember 2 other versions of the story: A Chinese version where it was only a stepmother and one stepsister. This cinderella befriended a magic gold fish who granted her wishes and helped her get to the ball, in gold slippers. After the prince finds her and marries her, the stepmother and stepsister die when the cave they live in collapses. Then there's a native American version where cinderella is horribly scarred and bullied by her stepsisters because of it. When the sisters go to marry the most handsome man in the village-who happens to be invisible-, the man's sister turns them away because they try to lie and say they've seen him to gain favor. When cinderella auditions, she proves she really does know and see him, and is accepted. She gets to bathe in a magic lake that washes her scars away. She and the prince live happily while the sisters get nothing.

[larry-naylor]

The Brothers Grimm didn't write any stories, they collected them but other than that it was interesting.

[marysabourin]

In one story on the way home from the ball cinderella breaks her foot and it get all swelled up and doesn’t fit in the shoe, and then she didn’t have a happily ever after

[lisanguyen]

Honestly, every single Disney movie is so different from the og, I read the real versions of them and it creeps the heck out of me!

[darthtaiter]

When I was a little kid my mom had a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales from the late 1890's. In the version of Cinderella I read when the Prince came calling with slipper in hand the Stepmother cut part of the heel off of her one daughter and the little toe off the foot of the other daughter to make the shoe fit, but the blood leaking out and the girl's squirms of pain gave them away. Also, at the end of the story, after the Prince married Cinderella He punished the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters for their cruelty by have them nailed into spiked barrels and rolled down a hill into the river to drown. It was really quite gruesome stuff. Almost all of the stories had awful punishments like that for the baddies. Fairy Tales for little kids in the Victorian era...lolol.

[mayimam]

In one version of the story after the prince finds Cinderella the sisters beg for forgiveness but instead of answering she has the birds peck their eyes out.

[taxwithoutborders]

In the Greek version of Cinderella, the girl gets her fancy clothes from mother nature and her daughters. At the ball, the prince puts honey on the stairs when the girl runs away. Then, she takes off her shoes to get out of the honey and that's how the prince got her shoes.