Fairy Tales!

Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about Perrault's Fairy Tales. Charles Perrault was a writer who did revisons and original 'fairy tales' like Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella, and Ricky of the Tuft. However, some of the tales are evil enough to make Grimms tales look even more child friendly.

The Sleeping Beauty In the Wood is a tale about a princess whose parents forgot to invite an evil fairy to her birth, and cursed her to die upon pricking her finger. The good fairies all had done their benefits to here, but one said that it'd be changed to having be kissed by a prince. After a 100 year respite, we come to the prince, who bears challenges to save her. Then he has two kids with her, but his mother, who is a troll, tries to eat them. The troll dies, and they become king and queen.

Little Red Riding Hood is a tale about a girl who goes to give her grandmother food. However, on the way to the house, she met a big bad wolf, who she was an idiot in dealing with and told him that he was going to her grandmother's house. The wolf ran before her, ate the grandmother, pretended to be a grandmother, and ate little red riding hood.

Blue Beard is a story about a man with a hideous beard who thrown grand parties in search of another wife. He eventually finds a young woman who marries him. She joins him in his castle, and is given a set of keys. She is told not to use the smallest key. Then he leaves and she uses the smallest key, which unlocks the door of a group of his dead wife. He finds out, tries to kill her, but her brothers come and kill him.

Puss in Boots is a well known story about a trio of kids who split their fathers inheritance. One gets the mill, another the donkey, and the youngest gets the cat. However, the cat ends up being the best gift, befriending a local king and then convincing him that the son is the Marquis of an area. On a trip to survey his lands, the king is convinced by the cat that the son was robbed of his clothing and carriage. The king gives him clothes and a place in the carriage, while the cat convinces workers to say the land belongs to the Marquis. As the king goes on, he gets more impressed. The cat then eats a the troll the land belonged to by tricking him to become a mouse, and the Marquis gets to marry the kings daughter.

The Fairies is a tale about two Sisters who are enemies. One is great, nice, and beautiful, and the other is evil, nasty, and ugly. The nice one goes down to a well to fetch water, and meets a poor, old lady who requires assistance in drinking. Of course, she helps and is blessed by the disguised fairy to always leave a trail of diamonds and flowers when talking. The other one goes and his confronted by the same situation, but refuses to help. She gets cursed to have toads and snakes fall out of her mouth.

Ricky of the Tuft is the story of a ugly man and a stupid woman who are both royalty, but have the ability to transfer the ability to be smart and beautiful to whoever they choose. They have parents who refuse to let them meet in order to keep superiority over them, but eventually meet anyway and transfer there powers, then own both of their parents kingdoms.

Little Tom Thumb is a mix between original and Hansel and Gretal. It follows the story of 7 children who follow the H&G storyline of the parents not having enough money to support them, and Tom Thumb being able to bring them back the first time with rocks. However, the next time they use breadcrumbs instead, and the birds eat them. They find shelter in a troll's cave, and the troll takes them in with the intention of cutting their throats and eating them. However, they switch with the troll's daughters, and the troll, after killing his own daughters,, in fury tries to kill them, but Tom leads him in a merry chase which resulsts in the troll dying from exhaustion.

That's Adventure Van, reading out.

(And boy were these stories not the ones you got read to as a kid.)