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ssmith17
Registered User
(4/12/04 9:17 pm)
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need help with original grimm stories
I am still working on my research paper, but am confused. I saw a posting about how sleeping beauty was raped in the original grimm version of the tale and cinderella was a murderer etc... I have a grimm tale book but i found no evidence of this. Is it just people understanding the story different, or should I find another book??
Thanks so much. You are all the most helpful people.
Sarah
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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(4/12/04 9:40 pm)
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Re: need help with original grimm stories
I think the Sleeping Beauty tale you're alluding to is the earliest written version of the story we know of, "Sun, Moon, and Talia," which is an Italian tale in Basile's collection in, what, the 17th century (could be wrong)? The Grimms' version does not have the rape or the attempted murder and cannibalism by the the prince's mother.
I know that there is an early variant of Cinderella in which she does away with one wicked stepmother in order that her beloved tutor may marry her father--but then the tutor turns out to have six--six!--daughters of her own and becomes even more wicked than the first stepmother. But I can't remember where I found that variant. Anybody?
The Grimms' tales tended to be bloodier than the fare we give our kids today, what with red hot slippers, slicing off bits of feet, pecking out people's eyes, etc., but they're still not as nasty as some of the earlier versions.
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(4/13/04 6:34 am)
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Re: need help with original grimm stories
The Cinderella variant that you're thinking of (re: murder) sounds like it might also belong to Basile, under the title of "The Cat Cinderella."
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kristiw
Unregistered User
(4/15/04 10:03 pm)
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The Sleeping Beauty
Try checking out The Sleeping Beauty, by P.L. Travers (as in Mary Poppins). It has several versions of the story as well as interpretations, and as I remember it a slim little book and a quick read.
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(4/16/04 7:54 am)
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Re: The Sleeping Beauty
And try Midori Snyder's on-line article Sleeping Beauty,
which discusses early variants of the tale: www.endicott-studio.com/forsleep.html
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