Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28486044-20160727075112/@comment-26463535-20160729015330

OK, I made a bad point about cautionary tales. At that time, I was under the mistaken impression that original LLRH ended with her and her grandmother being killed by the witch. Though I'm pretty sure original endings for Goldilocks and the Three Bears are indeed the ones where the bears eat her and not where she manages to escape? All stories meant to be stories do have a moral at them since an author or storyteller shares his view of the world with his stories and therefore subconsciously if not consciously any story contains some lesson about the real world, therefore why any story can be stuck with aesops even if its nonsensical like how the author's purpose with Alice in Wonderland is to show what the world could be like if immaginary numbers were allowed to exist.

What percentage of original fairy tales are the Grimm fairy tales? I read through a collection of them and I noticed mostly happy endings. And how accurate are the color fairy stories treasuries to the original tales(ex. Blue Fairy Tales, Purple Fairy Tales)?

One fairy tale I have found with an extremely dark ending was one where a Lord finally gave in to the peasents starving under him during a famine and told them to all come to one of his towers and they would have food. They all went into the tower and then the lord bolted and blockaded the door behind them, causing the people to all perish in the tower. Some time later, a scrathing was heard at that tower and the lord eventually investigated. A horde of black rats then swarmed upon him and he was utterly devoured and that was the end of the story. (Found it in the Coming of Age story collection arranged by William Bennet.) Though even with that ending, evil had its comeuppence and so it wouldn't be following through on its fairy tale inspiration for evil to triumph completely. Heros can die and evil can have a moment of triumph, but ultimately good must triumph over evil.