Creepy Short Stories

Sleeping Beauty

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The popular version of Sleeping Beauty was based off of an Italian folktale made by Giambattista Basile which was called "Sun, Moon, and Talia". (As I said in the last chapter, the scene(s) in italics are scenes/parts from the original story)
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In Giambattista Basile's version of Sleeping Beauty, the girl is named Talia.

When Talia was young, a fortune teller predicts her future and warns that Talia will be in grave danger from a splinter of flax.

Talia grows into a beautiful young woman. One day, she she pricks her finger on a splinter of flax and falls down dead. Her father is devastated and he can't bring himself to bury her. So he lays her body out in her finest clothes and abandons the house forever.

Some time later, a king is walking in the forest and stumbles upon the abandoned house. Inside, he finds Talia's body and she looks like she is sleeping. The king thinks she is beautiful and tries to wake her up.

When she doesn't wake up, the king gets really creepy and decides to take advantage of the sleeping girl.

"As he looked at her, and tried to wake her, she seemed so incredibly lovely to him that he couldn't resist. He couldn't help desiring her, and he began to grow hot with lust. He gathered her in his arms and carried her to a bed, where he made love to her."

Afterwards, the king goes home and doesn't think anymore about poor Talia or what he has done to her.

However, specifically 9 months later, unconscious Talia gives birth to twins - a boy and a girl.

The hungry babies try to breastfeed,
but one of them sucks on her finger instead and ends up sucking out the splinter.

Talia wakes up and is shocked to discover that she is now a mother of 2. She has no idea where the babies came from, but she named them "Sun" and "Moon".

One day, the king starts thinking about Talia and decides to go back and see her again.

Arriving at the palace, he finds her awake and taking care of his 2 children. Putting two and two together, he realizes that the children are his. He leaves, but promised Talia that he will come back and take her to his kingdom.

He goes home, but his wife heard him talking in his sleep and learns that he has been cheating on her. She writes a letter to Talia, pretending to be the king and asks her to send the twins to the kingdom because he wants to see them.

Wen the queen gets her hands on the twins, she plans to have them killed, cook them, and feed them to her husband.

The queen, hating the children even more when she saw how beautiful they were, took them to the kitchen and told the cook to kill them, and to prepare them as tasty dishes for the king's supper.

The horrified cook brings the twins to his wife and hides them. Instead, he kills and cooks 2 lambs and serves them for dinner. The king tucks into his meal and keeps remarking on how tasty it is. His wife eagerly watches him eat and keeps saying:

"You are eating what is your own."

The queen writes another letter to Talia, pretending to be the king, and invites her to visit the kingdom. The queen is secretly planning to burn her alive in the palace courtyard.

When Talia arrives, the queen says, "Are you the whore who has been enjoying my husband? Get ready to be welcomed in hell, because you will soon be going there."

The queen forces Talia to strip naked and Talia begins screaming and crying. When the king finds out what's going on, he says, "How could I have eaten my own sweet babies? You venomous, evil woman! How could you have done such a dreadful thing?"

Then, he has his wife thrown into the fire and burns her alive, along with all the servants who helped her. However, when he finds out that his children are still alive, he spares the cook's life and the story ends with the king marrying Talia and living happily ever after.
~The End~
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Just like every other Disney story, this one had a happy ending, too. Just because it's creepy doesn't mean it can't have a little bit of joy in it.
These are the only Disney stories I'be found that have a dark creepy twist to it. I know The Little Mermaid has one (cannibalism) but that one would be too long. Probably longer than "No End House".
I'm thinking about doing a ritual/game next because I haven't done one in a while. Until next story, see ya!