In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse.
And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One ofthe children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
Click the link and read the rest. It’s pretty shocking and most of the stories are horrid, but I can’t stop reading… >.<
Wow :-/
Awesome post in an always awesome photoblog. The Denver Post follows a boy from recruitment to enlistment to soldierhood.
Tony Horton (P90X founder) On Yoga (via thefitclubnetwork)
do it! i love the Yoga X routine, and hate it, all at the same time.
One of the best children’s stories of recent years was Neil Gaiman’s Coraline in which the heroine finds a door that leads to a world where she has a different family, and an Other Mother with button eyes who wants her to stay forever. It’s not just the Other Mother (or the Alice’s Red Queen, or Narnia’s White Witch, or Oz’s Wicked Witch) that’s scary. It’s the place she belongs to, in the mirror, through the wardrobe or over the rainbow. They tap into a primal mixture of fear and excitement at the prospect of vanishing into another world and, perhaps, never coming home.
– If children’s stories aren’t scary, they’re failing their audience | Sam Leith | Books | The GuardianAbout Me
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