Fairy Tales

mammag wrote: One funny thing I've discovered since homeschooling....

It had been a while since I had read the original version of many of the fairy tales. We got a book of them with Conner's curriculum and I was a bit shocked by it. In a funny way....sort of.

Bit graphic here....

Like with Red Riding Hood. I never realized that the wolf actually eats the grandma and Red Riding Hood. Then the huntsman hears the ruckus and cuts him open to get them out. He is still alive so he puts rocks in him which weighs him down and kills him....... Conner was looking at me kind of funny when I had to read that and I was sort of laughing because I had never remembered it being told that way.

I'm learning all kinds of interesting things....

mckayleesmom replied: I went to the library the other day and we got that same version.....lol. I remember it being that way when I was in school.....now they suger coat it and don't tell it like it was.

luvbug00 replied: Ahh I remember the good grusome ones where cinderllas sisters get their heals cut off to try and fit the blood soaked shoes. "sigh" the good old days!

kit_kats_mom replied: Oh yeah, those Grimm brothers were...well, grim! LOL
Kind of makes you stop to think how sheltered our kids are though. I mean none of us grew up to be sociopaths or pshycos and we all heard them in their original form.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: How about the now I lay me down to sleep prayer. When I was little it was and if I should die before I wake. Now my nieces and nephews say a different version.

mckayleesmom replied:
we were just talking about that the other day in another post about prayers...Mckaylee says that prayer and I want to change it cause Im afraid it will scare her once shes old enough to understand.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: and they wonder why there was always something in our closets! because right before bed we heard stories that belong in horror movies! i was lucky my mom always sugar coated! my dad didn't...

mummy2girls replied: I know... I hate the red riding one.. scarey! When i read to tlittle girl i car for i just say the wolf got scraed away from the huntsman.. no one dies no one gets eaten:)

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gr33n3y3z replied: Yep just like ring around the rosey

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
oh I know.... I lived an incredibly sheltered life - can you believe I only found out 2 years ago what the true meaning is???

Ring around the Rosie
Pockets full of posies
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down

Ring around the rosie - means the red ring around the rosie (like a zit) that was a big warning of the plague
Pockets full of Posies - means the posies in their poclets was to cover the smell of death and decay
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down - the ashes from burning the corpses, and we all fall down because the plague gets everybody.

Well, everybody who`s poor anyways - because the rich would eat with SILVER utensils - the minusculs amounts of silver that they would ingest from using silver cutlery would be enough to give them, eventually, a blue-ish tinge to their skin (hence the name blue-bloods) as well as help protect those people from illnesses.

Nowadays - we have colloidal silver.... it`s used as a homeopathic remedy in my family.... it cures pretty much everything, but it`s not a prescribed thing - it`s over the counter. Ask your docor about it.... even kids can take it.

Edited to add: it can be applied topically or ingested. I just put a few drops in my water... and I put in on cuts/scrapes/zits etc for me and the kids too.

kimberley replied: ya they didn't sugar coat things back then. i am still traumatized by bambi

Insanemomof3 replied: Hmmm sounds interesting. What is the name of the book?

mammag replied: It's the Random House Book of Fairy Tales.