What we saw: John Smith asks Pocahontas to come with him, but she chooses to stay with her tribe. Towards the end, Ariel is told that she can be a mermaid again if she kills the prince. Plus, the price of having human legs was that every step she took caused excruciating amounts of pain. True! But what we weren’t told was that the mermaid would die if she can’t get the prince to marry her. In Hans Christian Andersen's version, the mermaid, makes a deal to get legs at the cost of her voice to see the prince. We have all seen Little Mermaid as a kid, but not in our wildest thoughts we would have imagined her killing herself. What we saw: Ariel turns into a human, complete with human legs, permanently by her father, and gets married to Prince Eric to live happily ever after.
The two then invite the Queen for a sadistic revenge that will ultimately take her life. After the Prince saves Snow White from choking on the apple, they decide to get married. The Queen tries to kill Snow White not just once but thrice. What we have known of ‘Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs’ is nothing like the sadistic end of the original version by The Brothers Grimm. Snow White and her Prince Charming were married after he saved her life and lived happily ever after. What we saw: The Queen dies falling down a cliff. Read on to know the original endings to some of these classics. It is now common knowledge that Disney, more often than not, adapted the original versions of our fairy tales, to make them more palatable to a younger audience. But, over the years, what will scar you is the real story behind these 'fairy tales' and their gory endings. We have grown up watching Disney movies and some of them more than once because they never ceased to enchant us. While obviously adulting pretty much ensured we questioned the existence of fairy tales, you will be sadder to know that the Disney fairy tales you grew up on, were actually not what you think they were. The 'happily ever afters', the 'prince charming'.
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