Cinderella: Bloody feet and sadistic birds
In the original Grimm version of Cinderella, she is forced into servitude for her stepmother and stepsisters. She hears of a multi-day festival thrown for the Prince and asks her bird friends to bring her dresses and shoes she could wear to the event each day. The birds happily provide. She meets the Prince but disappears before he can escort her home.
The Prince, hoping to delay the girl, lays pitch on the stairs, catching her golden (not glass!) shoe in the sticky mess, but she just abandons her shoes. Later, as the Prince uses the shoes to identify his dream girl, Cinderella’s stepsisters find their feet are too big for the shoe. In their efforts to fit the shoe, one sister cuts off her toes. The other cut off her heel. The Prince finds the perfect shoe match in Cinderella, and birds peck out the stepsister’s eyes.
