Happily Ever After: Revealed
HAPPILY EVER nce upon a time, storytellers like the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen started paying attention to the tales they had heard as children-at the hearth, in parlors, and in spinning rooms. Action-packed, these tales of magic and mystery took listeners into a world filled with wicked stepmothers, cannibalistic ogres, and greedy giants. Of the works collected in The Classic Fairy Tales, selected and annotated by Maria Tatar, some are just as you'll remember from your bedtime stories, some are modern- day retellings, and some (from Egypt, China, Japan, Russia, and elsewhere) may be entirely unfamiliar. but they will all surprise you with what comes before "happily ever after." AFTER REVEALED Fatal fairytale food Poisoned Loaf of bread Pears apples Pieces of Poisoned Sausage grain wine water Including non-lethal comestibles, bread is the food most frequently mentioned. Captured and married by husbands who are then killed Married off by their fathers The Evil Queen An apple a day does not keep murderous stepmothers away. In "The Juniper Tree," a boy is beheaded by his stepmother after bending down to pick had more tricks dn her sleeves than Marry a prince after being disguised (a frog, a peasant girl, a suit of leather) just a poisoned apple. She was also fond of using venomous combs and corsets tight| Marry a prince who awakens her enough to cut off poor damsel's breath. a The marital fate of fairytale Gambled the delicious- dn looking fruit. Marry a prince they win in a deal to get rid of women away ogres or obtain golden balls Most marriages are eventually happy Choose their husbands Marries the prince she saved НАРPY UNHAPPY UNKNOWN Children who turn into birds are the most common There used to be many transformation CHILDREN more versions of Cinderella, with equal numbers of male and female leads, but these have fallen out of favor and retelling. PRINCES Next time you want to be left alone with your thoughts, think of Beauty's sisters, who were turned completely to stone. except for their minds! PRINCESSES Wolf. It's whať's for The Little Mermaid chose to turn dinner! Little Red and The unhappy endings of fairytale characters to sea foam when her prince fell in love with another princess-but had she killed him, letting his blood splash over her feet, she could have returned to her mermaid form once more. Grandmother drown the wolf in sausage water without any meaty huntsmen around to save the day. Murdered Methods of murder Childbirth Sickness Beaten Poisoned Chopped Shot Natural Froze to Guilt from vanity death about shoes Eaten Stabbed Millstone Burned Accidental by wolf on head Transformed Turned into Turned into Drowned Iron-hot Too-tight sea foam statues shoes corsets Dying to Read More? America: Bluebeard's Egg, The Tiger's Bride China: Cinderella, Yeh-hsien, Goldflower and the Bear Denmark: The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid England: The Rose-Tree, Molly Whuppie, Catskin Egypt: The Princess in the Suit of Leather France: Beauty and the Beast, Donkeyskin, Little Thumbling, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard Germany: Little Red Cap, The Frog King, Snow White, Cinderella, Fitcher's Bird, Hansel and Gretel, The Robber Bridegroom, Data was culled from these stories, which are included in The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition The Juniper Tree Himalayan Mountain Region: The Story of the Black Cow Ireland: Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter Italy: The Pig King, The Young Slave Russia: The Frog Princess Sweden: The Swan Maiden NORTONLITERATURE.COM @NORTONCRITICALS NORTON Y WWNORTON.COM/NORTONCRITICALS CRITICAL EDITIONS © 2015 W. W. Norton & Company Research by Rachel Goodman - Design and illustrations by Leah Clark
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