What a Creep Season 27, Episode 5: Creepy Fairy Tale Origin Stories

What a Creep
Season 27, Episode 5
Creepy Fairy Tale Origin Stories 

Forget everything you learned from animated films… several beloved fairy tales are far from the joyous Disney creatures we have all seen since childhood. This episode discusses the dark worlds behind Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, and Hansel and Gretel. The sanitized versions of these fairy tales we share today keep only hints of these origins, but the eerie stories lurking beneath the surface remind us that fairy tales weren’t always about happy endings.


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Trigger warning: Fictional Murder, Child Abduction, Werewolves, and Cannibalism

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