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These fairy tales are darker than you remember
~ well, I never ~

…a 31 minute video

“Step into the dark and disturbing world of the original fairy tales that inspired some of the most famous stories ever told. Long before Disney transformed them into family-friendly classics, many fairy tales were filled with murder, death, sacrifice, and terrifying moral lessons.
In this video, we explore The Fitcher’s Bird, a gruesome Grimm tale of a serial-killing sorcerer; The Dead Mother, a chilling piece of Russian folklore about a mother returning from the grave; The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen, one of the most heartbreaking tales ever written; The Three Army Surgeons, a bizarre and grotesque Brothers Grimm story; and The Little Mermaid, whose original ending is far darker and more profound than the version most people know today.” (well, I never)

chapters:
0:00 Introduction – Fairy Tales Too Dark for Modern Audiences
2:10 The Fitcher’s Bird: The Sorcerer and the Three Sisters
6:00 The Youngest Sister’s Escape and Revenge
8:10 Bluebeard, Pandora, and the Meaning Behind the Story
10:00 The Dead Mother: A Russian Tale of Grief
13:20 Death Cannot Separate Mother and Child
15:00 The Story of a Mother
19:30 A Mother’s Journey Through Death’s Realm
22:20 The Impossible Choice
23:50 The Three Army Surgeons
26:10 Body Horror, Folklore, and Hubris
27:40 The Little Mermaid: Andersen’s Dark Original
30:00 The Ending Disney Never Used
31:00 Why These Dark Fairy Tales Still Matter
31:30 End Screen

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J is for jackolope

The American “Fearsome Critter”

Inside The Enduring Legend Of The Jackalope — And The Bizarre History Behind It

“Ever since the 19th century, explorers and cowboys in the American West have reported sightings of rabbits with horns or antlers sprouting from their heads — but are jackalopes actually real?”

~ Scotland has the Loch Ness monster. Florida has the skunk ape. And Wyoming has the jackalope, an elusive but beloved rabbit-like cryptid with the antlers of a deer
~ the jackalope has existed in Wyoming folklore since at least the 1930s, although some alleged sightings are much older
~ the creature has a number of intriguing powers: its milk is said to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties
~ they’re purportedly clever animals that can mimic humans and often startle campers by singing their fireside songs right along with them
~ they’re said to be difficult to trap …they are quick and can purportedly run up to 60 miles per hour
~ as taxidermy in bars across Wyoming will attest, some people do seemingly succeed at capturing and killing jackalopes. How? These shifty creatures reportedly have a weakness for whiskey. Legend states that they become slower and easier to trap after they’ve lapped some up
~ Works like Field Guide to the North American Jackalope by Andy Robbins (2021) suggest that these cryptids show up in the fossil record. They also seem to appear in 13th-century manuscripts and 16th-century paintings. Plus, they were referenced by the Buddha (though to deny their existence) and were purportedly spotted in Wyoming as far back as 1829
~ these “jackalopes” might have actually been rabbits with Shope papillomavirus, a disease that causes horn-like bumps to grow from the heads of infected bunnies
~ the legend of the jackalope almost certainly starts with a Wyoming man named Douglas Herrick.

“In 1934, Douglas and his brother Ralph returned from hunting trip and tossed a jackrabbit that they’d killed onto the floor. By coincidence, it slid across the room and lined up perfectly with a pair of antlers. Douglas purportedly exclaimed: “Let’s mount it the way it is!” And, with that, the first Wyoming jackalope was born. The brothers started making jackalope taxidermy and sold their first specimen to the Hotel LaBonte in Douglas, Wyoming (it was stolen in the 1970s). “Lately, I can’t make ’em fast enough,” Douglas Herrick told The New York Times in 1977.”

source: Are Jackalopes Real? The Truth About The Horned Rabbits

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