The Bear Bitch’s Project

Keeping in theme with the previous post:

Did you know that the story of Sleeping Beauty doesn’t end with the Prince waking her up with a kiss? One of the earliest versions of the story is called Sun, Moon, and Talia   by Giambattista Basile.
This is one story you DO NOT want to read to your children. It starts off
just like the Sleeping Beauty we all know and love but then turns into a
perverted mutation of Hansel & Gretel and Snow White.
What does the prince do when he finds an abandoned castle with a beautiful girl asleep in it? Does he wake her up with a kiss? Hell no. He rapes and impregnates her then goes home to his wife. What a shock it must be to wake up after being asleep for a hundred years not only to find out that you’ve been raped but also that you’ve given birth to twins (named Sun and Moon - go figure) without knowing it. Of course the wife finds out and orders the children to be killed and their flesh served for dinner. But the cook takes pity on the children and cooks a
goat instead. So the wife tries again to have them killed but the prince
saves them and he lives happily ever after with Talia (Sleeping Beauty) and the twins.
Yep. Read that to a kid before bedtime and be prepared to be awoken in the middle of the night because of nightmares!

The version I prefer is called Briar Rose and is by Charles Perrault.
This one is "GP" compared to the one by Basile.
The prince does wake her up with a chaste kiss, they get married and have consensual sex within the bounds of holy matrimony, resulting in twins named Dawn & Day (much better than "Sun" and "Moon").  But they are forced to keep the marriage and kids a secret: not because he has a legal wife but because his mother is an ogre (not of the Shrek variety) who liked to eat children. To make a long story short, she
finds out about the children and gets someone from her staff to turn them into dinner but he can’t bring himself to kill them so he serves her lamb instead. She eventually finds out and tries to kill them once more but the prince arrives just in the nick of time and saves the day. No raping, no adultery, and no Stockholm Syndrome/Raptus. Hurray! Just good, clean, formulaic fiction. What more can you ask from a classic fairy tale?

You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Disney ruined some of the greatest fairy tales out there. I mean, editing out the first 2 balls in Cinderella, editing out the first 3 murder attempts of Snow White, and worst of all, making the Little Mermaid live! What’s the deal with that?
Don’t get me wrong. I very much enjoy those Disney movies, in fact, those 4 are my all time favorites, but somehow, commercializing the stories makes the already 1 dimensional story even flatter.
Well, that’s my two cents on the matter.