How good are you at fairy tales?

If you're old enough, you tend to sigh sadly when today's kids reject classic folk tales in favour of the 'real' ones. By 'real', they mean 'Disneyfied'. On the other hand, modern psychologists would definitely disapprove of the original tales – they're anything but PC, and they might give the little darlings nightmares.

What happened in each of these original stories? Fill in the blanks with the missing spoilers.

1. In the original Cinderella tale, the ugly stepsisters go to the wedding, only to have [SPOILER ALERT].
2. At the end of Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid', the mermaid turns into [SPOILER ALERT].
3. In Carlo Collodi's 1883 The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous puppet meets a talking cricket and [SPOILER ALERT].
4. In 'Sleeping Beauty', the king finds an unconscious princess and [SPOILER ALERT].
5. In 'Rapunzel', the hair-climbing prince is [SPOILER ALERT] when he falls into some thorns.
6. In the original 'Snow White', the evil queen asks a huntsman for [SPOILER ALERT], and eats them.
7. Also in 'Snow White', the evil queen is forced to entertain at the wedding by [SPOILER ALERT].
8. In the Grimm Brothers' 'The Juniper Tree', a woman decapitates a boy by slamming a chest down on his neck. Then she [SPOILER ALERT] to conceal the crime.
9. In the French version of 'Little Red Riding Hood', Red is eaten by the wolf, but [SPOILER ALERT].
10. Robert Carlyle beware: In the original version of 'Rumpelstiltskin', the angry little man stamps his foot so hard he gets stuck in the floor and [SPOILER ALERT] trying to get out.

If you think you're ready for the answers, click on the picture below.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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