Most people don't know that in the original version of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf eats the grandmother and then eats Little Red Riding Hood. The End. It was written by Charles Perrault (1628-1703), who also wrote the original stories of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. He also invented Mother Goose!

Many fairy tales were once pretty gruesome before weak-minded adults changed them around (no offense to all adults). In the original version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the intruder to the bears home is an angry old woman, not a cute little girl. She is so mean, the bears end up impaling her on a church steeple. That's got to hurt!

Here's another one: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was written in 1812 by two brothers named Grimm. At the end of their version of the story, the evil queen has to put on iron slippers that are heated red hot. She goes crazy from the pain and dances herself to death.

-Bart King