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Historic Children’s Fairy Tales That Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Fairy tale image of boy getting thumbs cut off by man with giant scissors
Little Suck-A-Thumb gets his thumb scissored off. Heinrich Hoffman (1845 ed.). Public domain.
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Snow White: The Evil Queen’s hot dance

Fairy tale illustration of sad looking prince leads his men carrying Snow White in her glass coffin
The Prince carries Snow White’s coffin to his home (1852). Project Gutenberg, public domain.

But the story doesn’t end with Snow White’s death.  As the dwarves mourn their friend, a Prince comes to their cottage in the woods and asks for shelter overnight.  He sees the glass coffin and Snow White’s body.  He begs the dwarves to let him take it home. After much pleading, the dwarves allow him to take the coffin, but as his servants are carrying it away, they drop it.

A piece of the apple, stuck in her throat, comes loose.  This revives Snow White one more time.  Snow White and the prince marry, even extending the Evil Queen an invitation.  The Queen nervously attends the wedding.  But Snow White and the Prince actually have a gift for her, a new pair of shoes.  The shoes are iron, heated in burning coals, which they force the queen to put on and dance until she dies.

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