Real Story Behind the Fairytale
Across
- 2. A god turned human, until his mother drives him mad and kills his wife and children.
- 7. A captured chief's daughter who later converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe.
- 8. After killing his adversary a cat, this character discovers his real parents are prisoners by a village of farmers. With help of the wolves and the elephants, he destroys the village and kills its inhabitants.
- 9. Dwelling in the cities of China, he is recruited by a sorcerer who pretends to be his uncle to retrieve an oil lamp.
- 10. Her captor allows her to visit her sisters for a week. When she arrives the sisters see how she is covered with jewelry and make her stay longer so her captor becomes mad and kills her.
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- 1. This character when she makes the deal to have legs, in small print it stated that her legs would be as if walking on knives. She never marries the prince and is thrown back in the ocean, where she turns into sea foam.
- 3. In this story, the evil step mother is punished by having to dance in heated iron shoes until she faints and dies.
- 4. Her sisters were desperate to fit the golden slipper. The result ended with one sister's toes cut off and one with her heel sliced. Later the wedding doves attack the sister's eyes. Couple lived Happy Ever After :
- 5. A young man with disabilities who unwittingly surrenders the maid to the authorities instead of saving her. He later watches her hang. He then goes to her grave and stays until he starves himself.
- 6. In this story the prince climbs the tower of a maiden kept there only to be thrown off and falls on some spines that pierce his eyes. Months blind, he wanders until hearing her sing. When she sees him, her magic tears restore his sight and lived happily ever after.
- 8. A Khan prisoner that escapes and when she realizes her dad is dead and her mother remarries, she takes her own life.