Cinderella

Well everyone knows this story, it has to be one disney most well known stories but I'm about to completely trash your favorite childhood fairytale. Everyone knows the story but here is the theory behind the story....

The lost slipper sparkles on the princes palm because it represents the owner herself, or, to be more exact, it represents her sexuality, roaming the countryside to find the only foot that slides into it. After all, what can a woman’s slipper, which is a smooth casing that fits snugly over a projecting part of her body, suggest except for a vagina, which is shaped by nature to fit around a penis? “The shoe or slipper is a…symbol of the female genitals,” Sigmund Freud wrote in a footnote to the first of his Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex…But fur? “Fur,” Freud says in the same essay, “is used as a fetich [sic] probably on account of its association with the hairiness of the mons veneris.” In other words, pubic hair. 

A fur-covered foot may be a gross fantasy suitable chiefly for scholars, but it’s not to the taste of fairy godmothers and their authors. Fairies prefer a slipper made of glass, since glass is cool, incapable of stretching, fragile, and impossible to repair once shattered, which is why it’s the symbol of virginity in general and of the hymen in particular. At traditional Jewish weddings today, the bridegroom still crushes a glass underfoot to symbolize rupturing his bride’s hymen, while his relatives and friends let out an exuberant cheer of “Mazel tov! Congratulations!” at the sound of the glass shattering. As a matter of fact, so important is the requirement that the groom break the glass on the first try, that prudent families substitute a lightbulb hidden in a napkin for the traditional goblet.

so there goes my childhood I don't know about yours!  so turns out cinderella and the prince were a little bit horny that night at the ball huh... oh by the way he talks about fur slippers coz the orginal story she had fur ones.

The Red Shoes

Ok so this fairytale is not well known at all, but it is one of my favorites so heres the plot...

A peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother's death. She grows up vain. Before her adoption Karen had a rough pair of red shoes, and now she tricks her adoptive mother into buying her a pair of red shoes fit for a princess. Karen repeatedly wears them to church, without paying attention to the service. She ignores the anger of her adopted mother and disapproving stares that even the holy images seem to express at her wearing red shoes in church. Her adoptive mother becomes ill, but Karen deserts her, preferring to attend a party in her red shoes. A mysterious soldier appears and makes strange remarks about what beautiful dancing shoes Karen has. Soon after, Karen begins to dance and she can't stop. The shoes take over; she cannot control them and they are stuck to her feet. The shoes continue to dance, through fields and meadows, rain or shine, night and day, and through brambles and briars that tear at Karen's limbs. She can't even attend her adoptive mother's funeral. An angel appears to her, bearing a sword, and condemns her to dance even after she dies, as a warning to vain children everywhere. Karen begs for mercy but the red shoes take her away before she hears the angel's reply. Karen finds an executioner and asks him to chop off her feet. He does so but the shoes continue to dance, now with Karen's amputated feet inside them. The executioner gives her a pair of wooden feet and crutches, and teaches her the criminals' psalm. Thinking that she has suffered enough for the red shoes, Karen decides to go to church in order for the people to see her. However her amputated feet, still in the red shoes, dance before her, barring the way. The following Sunday she tries again, thinking of herself at least as good as the others in church, but again the dancing red shoes bar the way. Karen gets a job as a maid in the parsonage, but when Sunday comes she dares not go to church. Instead she sits alone at home and prays to God for help. The angel reappears, now bearing a spray of roses, and gives Karen the mercy she asked for: it is as though the church comes home to her and her heart becomes so filled with sunshine, peace, and joy that it bursts. Her soul flies on sunshine to Heaven, and no one there mentions the red shoes.

Freuds theory on this was...

The Red Shoes: Vanity is the sin of the anti-heroine (vindictively named Karen after Andersen's loathed half-sister) in this nasty tale (made into a film in 1948). Karen's sin of going to church in bright red shoes and failing to care for her grandmother is punished by her being forced to dance unceasingly for ever. The vain girl is eventually driven to beg the executioner to cut off her feet. He says, 'Surely thou knowest not who I am. I cut off the heads of wicked men, and my axe is very sharp and keen.' To which the girl replies, 'Cut not off my head! For then I could not live to repent of my sin; but cut off my feet with the red shoes.' The shoes then go dancing away with the feet in them.
The Red Shoes was based on Andersen’s anxiety as a child about admiring his own new boots in church.
So all in all this story is pretty creepy, cannot wait to get my hands on this.