This document summarizes some key differences between original versions of classic children's tales and their modern adaptations. In the original Cinderella, the stepsisters cut off their toes to fit in the glass slipper. The original Snow White has no prince and the witch is punished by dancing in hot iron shoes. The original Little Mermaid must walk on knives and dissolves into sea foam when the prince marries another. In the original Sleeping Beauty, she has children with a noble before waking and her children are killed. The original Rapunzel has the witch lock her in a tower that can only be accessed by her hair.

1. ORIGINAL VERSION OF
CHILDREN TALES
FÁTIMA SOMOLINOS

2. THE CINDERELLA

3. The cinderella
• Until after the dance, the stories are similar.
• In the original version the step sisters have their feet too big to
insert them in the glass slipper.
• The step sisters cut off their heels and toes.
• Two doves announce the deception to the prince. When
Cinderella and the prince marry, those doves out the eyes of
the step sisters, as punishment.

4. SNOW WHITE
AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

5. SNOW WHITE
AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
• In the original version there is no prince
• The stepmother tries to kill Snow White three times. The third
attempt is the try everyone knows, the poisoned apple.
• The Snow White chokes on apple and is knocked
unconscious.
• The dwarfs carry to Snow White in the coffin but they stumble
and she wakes.
• In the end, the punishment for witch is dancing sheathed in
shoes red hot iron until she drops dead.

6. THE LITTLE MERMAID

7. THE LITTLE MERMAID
• The little mermaid can only come to earth to be with the
handsome prince if she drinks a potion that makes her feel
like walking on knives all the time.
• The prince marry with other woman and the little mermaid
sets out to sea, where her body dissolves into sea foam

8. SLEEPING BEAUTY

9. SLEEPING BEAUTY
• A noble arrives at the palace where the sleeping beauty is, he
fall in love with her and after trying to revive her, he violate
her.
• When the sleeping beauty wakes, she have two children and
she decides to maintain a relationship with the noble.
• The nobleman was married and returned, but he speaks in
dreams and his wife discover him infidelity. she sends the
sleeping beauty burn and to behead the children.

10. RAPUNZEL

11. RAPUNZEL
• Parents exchanged with witch to her daughter for a plants
called rapunzeles, and this girl is called Rapunzel.
• The witch locks Rapunzel in a tower, which can only be
accessed with your long hair.
• The prince of the kingdom knows to Rapunzel, but the witch
discovers them, and she move to Rapunzel to other place.
When the prince returns to the tower, is dropped from a tower
by despair and loses his eyes.
• At the end of this tale, the prince finds Rapunzel and
through her ​tears regains his sight.

12. THE END