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I have done a few articles on Fairy Tales and still profess that they are the precursors of horror. These stories, though fanciful, are dark, brooding, didactic, and often gory or disturbing. The real tragedy is that so many of the greatest fairy tales are unknown because Disney hasn’t watered them down yet; however, I feel that those ones are the best ones because there really isn’t a natural way to water them down. All-Kinds-of-Fur (Allerleiruh) is one of those fairy tales that isn’t gory or anything, but it is a great story that leaves a very uncomfortable feeling I the pit of the reader’s stomach…and isn’t that what we all crave? The tale starts off with the death of a queen who was the most beautiful woman in all the land. On her death bed, she told her husband that he could marry again, but “if thou wishest to marry again after my death, take no one who is
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Years ago, when I was in school, the entirety of students were shuffled into the gym for a long-forgotten reason, sat down on the hard, wooden floor and “The Little Mermaid” was projected for us all to watch. I think that my favorite part of this Disney version was the singing seagull who walloped through the hit song “Kiss the Girl” with guttural la-la-las until he was physically silenced by the little red crab. I loved the juxtaposition of a happy little tune on a romantic date trying to set the mood for some smooching and this seagull is bellowing in the background just trying to fit in…why is he the only animal in the whole Disney-oceanic world who can’t sing? In this well-known version of this cartoon the foul-singing fowl is painful on the ears, but the original story is filled to the brim with pain and misery. Hans Christian Anderson wrote a tale of a young mermaid who
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I have done a few articles on Fairy Tales and still profess that they are the precursors of horror. These stories, though fanciful, are dark, brooding, didactic, and often gory or disturbing. The real tragedy is that so many of the greatest fairy tales are unknown because Disney hasn’t watered them down yet; however, I feel that those ones are the best ones because there really isn’t a natural way to water them down. All-Kinds-of-Fur (Allerleiruh) is one of those fairy tales that isn’t gory or anything, but it is a great story that leaves a very uncomfortable feeling I the pit of the reader’s stomach…and isn’t that what we all crave? The tale starts off with the death of a queen who was the most beautiful woman in all the land. On her death bed, she told her husband that he could marry again, but “if thou wishest to marry again after my death, take no one who is
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Years ago, when I was in school, the entirety of students were shuffled into the gym for a long-forgotten reason, sat down on the hard, wooden floor and “The Little Mermaid” was projected for us all to watch. I think that my favorite part of this Disney version was the singing seagull who walloped through the hit song “Kiss the Girl” with guttural la-la-las until he was physically silenced by the little red crab. I loved the juxtaposition of a happy little tune on a romantic date trying to set the mood for some smooching and this seagull is bellowing in the background just trying to fit in…why is he the only animal in the whole Disney-oceanic world who can’t sing? In this well-known version of this cartoon the foul-singing fowl is painful on the ears, but the original story is filled to the brim with pain and misery. Hans Christian Anderson wrote a tale of a young mermaid who
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