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Lysergial t1_j21bmns wrote

There are a lot of these old stories that originally were very dark but got Disneyed by Disney or others

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FinishFew1701 t1_j2535ne wrote

Might I point out that Fairy Tales are no walk-in-the-park either. We all know that "Ring around the Roses" is about deaths stemming from the Bubonic Plague. Other examples are Three Blind Mice (executed bishops who refused to bow, essentially), Marry Mary Quite Contrary (Religious war brought by royalty), London Bridge (Brits attacked by the Norse and human sacrifice), Rub a dub dub (about peeping toms- it originated as 3 women in a tub), This Old Man (Brits disgusted at the Irish during the Potato Famine. Paddy whack? Yup. Not a nice term). It goes on and on. So, hail King Disney for his ability to bring light to these really dark, then-current events. I mean, he (Walter Elias Disney) was kind of an outlier himself, but he could draw...

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