It is interesting to see just how long such lurid and peculiar writing has been around, and to see that fanfiction writers at their worst are simply continuing a grand and ancient tradition.
This is no where near the darker sides of fanfiction. There are so many stories so many degrees darker, this still looks lik a story you would read/play for 5yr olds.
I think it’s funny that she gives birth to a literal plant and instead of complaining or even being shocked she just sort of says “oh well I suppose this is my baby now” and just takes care of it
Gotta appreciate the courage of the man who wakes up in the middle of the night and the first thing he does is grab whoever is next to him by the genitals. If I was an assassin or robber I'd probably book it out of there.
Since he doesn’t come up between his wife birthing a tree and his formerly tree fairy daughter marrying the prince, I’m just picturing the dad watching all this stuff go down with just the most perplexed look on his face.😂
"And that is why I never have to work another day in my life." Sounds like the kind of story the dad would make up after acquiring a fortune by accident...
I think I can explain "Myrtle"'s use of "Osiris" as a metaphor for what was done to her. In some versions of the Osiris myth, his evil brother Set chopped Osiris into pieces (including his penis) and scattered the pieces to the winds. Osiris' sister-wife Isis was able to gather all the pieces and ressurect Osiris - but she failed to recover his penis as a Fish had eaten it. So she fashioned him a prosthetic penis in its stead. Yeah.
I googled and read it. It pretty much cured my fetish overdose that seemed to lead to asexuality. Now I can sleep with no anxiety for ceasing to be a freak.
This whole story is just...wild. Even putting aside all the gruesomeness and spiciness, everybody's attitudes are just...BONKERS! "Oh, i want to have a baby so badly, even if it's just a myrtle branch." "Okay, here's your myrtle branch." Sane people's reactions: "WHAT???? Also ow. Pokey." This lady: "Oh, I guess this is my daughter now. Better water her!" XD I mean in a way it's kinda sweet, like she accepts her kid no matter what, but... And then the line "The Prince saw the myrtle tree in the window and was immediately MADLY in LOVE with it" Why is _everybody_ in this entire kingdom absolutely insane? It's like the whole story took drugs beforehand! And that's only the BEGINNING. XD I mean I currently have a big family in The Sims 4 (this is relevant, trust me) and they're all named after different "branches" of the "tree" of life. Taxonomic names. Every time the kid named "Plantae" (after the entire Plant Kingdom) gets off the schoolbus, he RUSHES over to the garden to start taking care of the plants. I'm not even kidding. First thing. Every time. It's like he somehow knows what I named him. So I started taking screenshots of him doing this and writing captions under them like: "MY PEOPLE NEED ME!" but...that was a JOKE! As far as I know, none of the plants are literally any of these character's children! Mermaids, yes. Aliens, yes. A werewolf cousin, sure. Trees, however, no. :P
I actually know a family story about a male sheep that was born without hind legs. Everyone was mystified at all the pregnant ewes , forgetting the one male sheep. "Now how in the world could that young legless lamb do all that?" "Well , BOB , apparently he had help."
@@plantedlife , you already know , the ewes. Now I know you're asking about positions. While nobody was awake to see this , I do has vivid imagination. Male goats and sheep have long , thin peens that need a lite touch anyway. And while it was barely old enough to get horny , and had no back legs , it was the only male for miles around. To quote a parrot "Any port in a storm." My guess is that it happened like this. They backed up to his face for him to lick and get hard. Then laid down and let him climb on top. Animals can do it lots of ways. I once saw a male bird grinding between a female's wings outside a library. She just stood there and let him hump.
Osiris was cut into pieces and scattered in the Nile so his wife and the wife of his killer find all the pieces but one piece that she would definitely miss ;) so they make a new one and he comes back to life but is stuck as the king of the dead since he still died and isn’t fully whole
I've come across a retelling (I'm not sure if it was a summary of Bastile's story or came from a common origin) that explained why the seventh woman didn't receive the punishment: because when the myrtle fairy appeared, she only took a lock of hair and held back from actually harming the fairy. Therefore, while not entirely guiltless, she was not part of the murder and thus was exempt from the punishment for the murder. It also stressed that she was the youngest, which could be interpreted as her actions being driven more out of peer pressure than murderous intent.
To say the end of the 6 outta 7 side girls is brutal and awful, imagine if Myrtle were a mortal and the 7 side girls did the similar to her. I think the prince's actions weren't fully unjustified. Exaggerated, yes, but the fact these women were willing to shred the prince's true love out of jealousy regardless of her being immortal or not, I wouldn't want them around either.
Honestly. Humiliation would had been merciful. For whichever part they had ripped off, they would have that part burned if not scarred beyond recognition. Then it would had made sense why the hair girl was sparred.
So to be fair, while the description of what she did may have been described as somewhat less offensive to justify her pardon, it really just sounds like compensation to the servant, giving him a presumably young and pretty bride as apology for the gruesome sight he was made to tend to.
I find it quite hilarious that you posted this when me and my friends were just talking about weird hbo spicy and weird inappropriate scenes that jumpscared us as kids😅
Not sure the reason, but I find the truly classic macabre to be some of the most beautiful stories we have. Yesteryears were brutal, and fairy tales probably had a lot of work to do if it was going to shock audiences back then.
@@Cinnabun9 Well, just because someone might not be studying it right, doesn't mean they weren't DIRECTLY INSTRUCTED to study it "incorrectly" or "improperly"... There's usually a reason someone is doing something improperly... and eventually those reasons have a funny way of relating back to instruction and something a teacher/instructor did or said. Schools often focus their curriculum on war, conquest, and violence as if humans are capable of nothing else. It's easy to get a skewed view, even if you find those subjects interesting or even fascinating... It also leaves a flawed impression of society and "progress". Hannibal of Carthage was NOT as "great" a leader as some stories and presentations would suggest. Most of his tactics only succeeded because the Romans at the time WERE classically educated about warfare, and restrained themselves to the assumption "Nobody's stupid enough to try that"... A concept relied upon by the current Russian military culture, and dubiously termed "Smekalka"... If Hannibal had been "great", as has been suggested (including by the Romans), he wouldn't have wasted TWO armies trying to force march elephants through and over the Alps. It SHOULD have been investigated, and quickly abandoned... BUT instead of finding the cultural nuances like "smekalka" from Russia, or the concept of "dying with music" as they also say, we're left with an over-rated view of their voracity for violence... AND instead of seeing the folly in Hannibal getting by on nearly "looney-tunes logic", we still have textbooks that might as well have been written by Roman generals who NEEDED to excuse their losing to a "somewhat foolish lunatic"... It's not our fault. The schools fall short, and authentically adults seem to have a misconception that children are attracted to violence and mayhem... They also like to laugh... and Julius Caesar once attacked one of his own cities by mistake, because of a meteor and the silly belief in "omens"... He (the great Roman General) burned a city to the ground, over a shooting star... Finding that out, at least to me, made it easier to accept life. "We all have off days" I suppose is more timeless and poignant than it probably should be... haha ;o)
Reminds me of a Hungarian folk tale I watched in which a boy gave a young princess one of each of his dancing pigs for a peak under her skirt, each time revealing more and more of her nude body. It was important he did that because when the king promised to marry the princess to whoever can guess her birth marks, the boy guessed perfectly thanks to those glimpses he saw
In fairness to the 7th mistress, she A: broke a tree (not a huge deal). B: threw a stick (not generally lethal). and C: took some hair (non-gruesome and non-vital). As fairytales go, that was... a lot tamer than I expected.
I remember somebody who I am certain now never read "Carmilla" recommended it to me as a "love story between two girls". It's not, but a part of me is thankful for it, I quite enjoyed more because of the suspense and horror behind it. I would really like to see a discussion in this channel.
@@TheoRae8289 It's really not a romance, unless constant creepy vampire predation is a "romantic" language or whatever. At least for me it was somewhat scary, not romantic at all. There are scenes that feel very eerie, and Carmilla's treatment of Laura, although yes she expresses affection, feels more like manipulation or playing with food kind of behavior. Good story, but, at least for me, not exactly a romance. It's more like Laura's memoir of her experience with a vampire attack, one that left her traumatized. Scary, yes. Romantic? I can't say.
Only about 3 min in and this is already giving me daphne vibes. For those who don't kjow greek myth, daphne was a nymph. The god apollo fell in love with her thanks to a curse cast on him by cupid, and chased her through the forrest, she was so distraught that she prayed to her dad, the river god peneus to help her, so he turned her into a laurel tree (some myths it's zeus who she prays to) Apollo hugs the tree declairing his love for her but as she can not be he turns her ingo a lyre, and uses her branches to form wreaths for his bow and quiver
Basile has some really PG tales. There is another one, that aside from Basile's version I have also got one version of in my region (the Castellonian province in Spain) called "The Flayed Old Crone" Two old maids, sisters, who play matchmaker with the local crown prince. One of them has to hide in the dark, pretending she is allergic to sunlight, and only show a pinky finger, which she sucks to keep it smooth. The prince is smitten by Cupid's arrow (like in this myrtle tale), and the mystery lady comes to court first incognito masked, then to the prince's bed in the dark. When he realizes what a dirty trick he has been played by candlelight, he chucks her out the Palace window. Wizards or fairies discover the crone and turn her into a beautiful girl, whom the prince marries. When she has to get revenge on her sister... I give no spoilers!!!
I mean they did pull an Osiris on her. Set was able to know Osiris's body location through Nephthys and cutting his body to forty-two pieces. He throws all of Osiris's body parts all over Egypt. probably that part where they all took a piece for themselves.
The Sandman has always been sinister. He takes human EYEBALLS to his owlet babies on the Moon (he's also the Man in the Moon) and he has this clockwork daughter, like a girl Pinocchio, in a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the author of the Nutcracker. And Rammstein has a song where he feeds on human eyeballs too.
When I subscribe to this channel I sort of expected something like this one to come along I just didn't expect it to get this dirty and/or brutal. I like it.
Hey I have a few stories I want you to cover next! Their called: 1)Lou's strange adventures 2)The Dragon king's palace 3) little mister Xou 4) Turtle Mark And they are all old Chinese fairy tales and I look forward to see them being told in the channel. The versions that I'm reading right now are not goary or so far terrible, I just wanted to see if you find any darker origins of those fairytales. Good luck and have a wonderful day/night/ afternoon.
I have never heard of this channel before this is my first time and that was crazy but much respect on the animation and storytelling I am subbing right now. 💯
I think it would be interesting if you covered selkies. I've always found skinwalkers/shapeshifters fascinating. Like any Faye though, they are tricky sorts. Ifrits are another creature we don't hear enough about, and there's a creature in 3,000 Years of Longing I cannot recall that was an enemy of the jinn that I doubt was mentioned anywhere else. Also, in Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, there's a monster I've never even heard of, but I don't remember it's name !
As far as old fiction goes I still remember the one about the priest from the Canterbury Tales dealing with this not-so-bright woman at confession who thought to himself "and just as he was thinking she was the right terrain for plowing..." Just like now steamy stories and innuendo are nothing new. Hell...in Apocrypha (Elder Scrolls Online) Hermes Mora uses them as structural support since their so common and are thus of no particular value to him what-so-ever.
i want a fairytale retelling with this? or some story based off of it 😭 i honest really love it. the mom and the prince are iconic for loving that myrtle haha
I've heard about a story by Charles Perrault called "Blue Beard". The story is about a man who married a young girl and takes her back to his castle. Upon arriving he gives her the keys to the castle and tells her that she a is forbidden her to go to a small room on the lower floor. He leaves shortly there after and she decide to go to the room to investigate what he was trying to keep hidden. To her discovery found the room to have clotted blood on the floor and the dead bodies of several women hung along the walls. They were all the wives of "Blue Beard" that had their throats cut. When he returned home find one of the seven keys that he gave her was covered in blood from the young girl had dropped on the bloody floor of the room. He was angered by this asking her why the key was bloody and she told him she had seen the room exclaimed I do not know all. Then he pointed out she knew well enough and that she should take her place along side the ladies she seen in the little room. With this he decide she was going to died and that she was going to die by his own hands. Her sister and her brothers help her survive his attack. Since he had no heirs she became the mistress of all his wealth and helped her family along with remarrying a man who allowed her to forget the horror of "Blue Beard". This is summery of the story, because it is more graphic. Also I found out there has been an Opera and Stage play of this story that is very Adult and not kid friendly. It is also some times known as "Bluebeard's Castle "or "The Bloody Key."😱💙🏰🗝🩸
Though they're stories old stories that have been given retellings by a modern author, some of the most risqué fairy tales I've ever had the surprise of reading was "The Bloody Chamber (and Other Stories)" by Angela Carter.
Honestly its not that bad i find one version of repluza worse where she pregnant she gets all her hair cut off then has the babyies while trying to find her lover. Her lover was blind by being pushed out of the tower and falling in a thron bush and walk around blind not knowing where he was going until repuzal found him cryed into his eyes and healed him
A "smooth job", "mistress of my scepter", "temple of love without candles"... I am taking notes, I'm planning to get a puzzled WTF face from my wife tonight!
Princes themselves are mythological creatures. With a wave of their hand they pardon any crime, and grant such fortune as to alleviate all want for the rest of your days. Not even a fairy godmother can offer such blessings.
Ok, can’t finish this because we all know where it’s going and how it will end. I do want to add that I love your voice, it’s super adorable and incredibly calming to listen to. Keep up the good work! I’m out before someone dies, is trapped, or otherwise maimed or murdered.
My paternal grandmother was named Mrytle. She had a horrible life bereft of love from her parents and first marriage, her middle name was also Belle, so to find out her name meant basically “Love” and “Beauty” but she didn’t experience either until she was middle aged and too damaged to really enjoy or understand what she finally had… damn. Thanks for this, I love you videos abitfrank 🖤
This was an absolutely AMAZING reading!! Thank you so much for this. I’ve been subscribed for a few years now and always get excited when I see you post. More videos like this please 👏🏻
I heard a MUCH censored version of this (basically cutting out the whole first part about the plant birth and bribery, as well as cutting out all the weird fetishes and drama from the prince) called “The Myrtle Tree Fairy” where the prince already has a Myrtle tree that he keeps on his balcony and she apparently falls in love with him over time; so she eventually reveals herself and… the story basically continues as you described, though much censored. But it frames the other six women as cruel murderers to this fairy, and specifies that the youngest does NOT brutally harm the Myrtle fairy or her tree (having only taken a few leaves off the top of the tree and mistakenly moved the bell when she did.) and only takes a golden hair as an afterthought. The Prince also sees the crime scene, so he has proof of the harem lady’s horrible deed. Honestly it’s one of my favorite fairy stories ever, but I’m VERY glad that somebody cut out all the NSFW stuff in the version I read. Lmao.
Can someone help me understand the moral? I'm not getting it. The lame goat gets by if there's none to block it? Does that mean the 'lesser' ladies do just fine for the prince until he finds a superior 'specimen'? So the lame goat are the ladies and the myrtle fairy blocks them?
Just found you. Excellent. Subscribed immediately. This would have been fun for my literature classes. Of course, I'd probably have been fired. And never been able to go to Florida. Thank you for this.
There is a Czech movie called Little Ottik, also called greedy guys. Based on a folklore. Anyway it's very similar to this but different enough. He wife wants a child but can't, so the woodsman husband goes into the forest and fines a root of a tree that vaguely looks like a baby and brings it home any they adopt it as there own. Where as it's animated (stop motion) and starts eating them out of house and home.)
I swear this story sounds like a messed up version of cupid and sphyc (pls someone correct me on the name of cupids wife) but great venus aphrodite this story sound like someone who really had 7 cups of wine in a mourge..... yeah
* Pauses * * Continues eat noodles before being traumatized. * Edit: Good news not tramized. 😂 Also the king bullied the mom into giving him her kid and only gives her money??!?? Let the mom live with her daughter at least that's all she wanted.
These old school fairy tales, man... Gotta love them, warts and all! They be on another wavelength! 🤣🤣 Also, I love, love, love your videos and narration. 😘
It always gets me how the mothers who wished for the supernatural offspring births. Never have time to enjoy their new parenthood. Because something in the stories always comes by to whisk their given little gifts away.😅 How sad.
I remember this story, but I swear it had a live adaptation. Kind of like the story about the young man and that followed the maidens and his friends or brothers into the fey realm. The maidens were force to dance at a private ball and later rescued the maidens. This is digging way back into my old memories.
This fairy tale is technically another day in the darker side of fanfiction readers 💀
It is interesting to see just how long such lurid and peculiar writing has been around, and to see that fanfiction writers at their worst are simply continuing a grand and ancient tradition.
As a fanfic reader,I've red way worse ones
@@benjaminjrtorrivillas3301 bro....
This is no where near the darker sides of fanfiction. There are so many stories so many degrees darker, this still looks lik a story you would read/play for 5yr olds.
@@benjaminjrtorrivillas3301 ikr-
I think it’s funny that she gives birth to a literal plant and instead of complaining or even being shocked she just sort of says “oh well I suppose this is my baby now” and just takes care of it
A baby is a baby man
"well, I guess I did literally ask for this"
Suppose when she said what she wanted, she fully meant it.
I mean, if I were to find a plant inside me, I’m for dang sure putting it in a pot on the window.
@@capnskustomworks idk about you but I would chuck it in the trash and maybe call my doctor
Gotta appreciate the courage of the man who wakes up in the middle of the night and the first thing he does is grab whoever is next to him by the genitals.
If I was an assassin or robber I'd probably book it out of there.
I'm pretty sure I've seen several adult movies with similar plots. 😂
"when you're rich, they let you do it."
@@goodbher9244 🤨
Well why leave so soon
That assassin or robber knew the risks.
Since he doesn’t come up between his wife birthing a tree and his formerly tree fairy daughter marrying the prince, I’m just picturing the dad watching all this stuff go down with just the most perplexed look on his face.😂
"Well it certainly could have been worse!" 😳
"And that is why I never have to work another day in my life."
Sounds like the kind of story the dad would make up after acquiring a fortune by accident...
The prince's dad gave up asking him to come out of his room after 72 hours and resigned himself to a life of disappointment 💀
Not used to 'morning wood' then?
I think I can explain "Myrtle"'s use of "Osiris" as a metaphor for what was done to her.
In some versions of the Osiris myth, his evil brother Set chopped Osiris into pieces (including his penis) and scattered the pieces to the winds. Osiris' sister-wife Isis was able to gather all the pieces and ressurect Osiris - but she failed to recover his penis as a Fish had eaten it. So she fashioned him a prosthetic penis in its stead.
Yeah.
Yep, I was going to comment the same thing. That version of the myth also generally ties into explaining the origin of mummification.
that just reminded me of that one Rick and Morty episode where Jerry is debating whether to get his genitals removed to save an alien religious figure
Yup and the golden prosthetic schlong is how they conceived Horus.
Ya I was going to say this, his body was In like 26 pieces or something like that
It's worth noting that she absolutely needed him to have his penis because in order to bring him back to life she had to have sex with his corpse.
This would make ANY sussy wattpad fanfiction seem like a kid’s story💀
LMAOOOOO
I googled and read it. It pretty much cured my fetish overdose that seemed to lead to asexuality. Now I can sleep with no anxiety for ceasing to be a freak.
Prince: "You will be the mistress of my scepter."
Me: Boy, if *that's* not a double entendre. 😆
This whole story is just...wild. Even putting aside all the gruesomeness and spiciness, everybody's attitudes are just...BONKERS! "Oh, i want to have a baby so badly, even if it's just a myrtle branch." "Okay, here's your myrtle branch."
Sane people's reactions: "WHAT???? Also ow. Pokey."
This lady: "Oh, I guess this is my daughter now. Better water her!" XD I mean in a way it's kinda sweet, like she accepts her kid no matter what, but...
And then the line "The Prince saw the myrtle tree in the window and was immediately MADLY in LOVE with it"
Why is _everybody_ in this entire kingdom absolutely insane? It's like the whole story took drugs beforehand!
And that's only the BEGINNING. XD
I mean I currently have a big family in The Sims 4 (this is relevant, trust me) and they're all named after different "branches" of the "tree" of life. Taxonomic names. Every time the kid named "Plantae" (after the entire Plant Kingdom) gets off the schoolbus, he RUSHES over to the garden to start taking care of the plants. I'm not even kidding. First thing. Every time. It's like he somehow knows what I named him.
So I started taking screenshots of him doing this and writing captions under them like: "MY PEOPLE NEED ME!" but...that was a JOKE! As far as I know, none of the plants are literally any of these character's children! Mermaids, yes. Aliens, yes. A werewolf cousin, sure.
Trees, however, no. :P
You gotta turn that sim kid into a plant sim now! lol
Also, these side chicks witness a WHOLE HUMAN WOMAN jump out of a plant to say hello to them and the only thing they care about is being jealous.
fairy tale/hentai logic
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I actually know a family story about a male sheep that was born without hind legs.
Everyone was mystified at all the pregnant ewes , forgetting the one male sheep.
"Now how in the world could that young legless lamb do all that?"
"Well , BOB , apparently he had help."
Please elaborate😂
@@plantedlife what's to elaborate?
Are you asking about poses or something?
@@self-absorbed5269 I was wondering what sort of help he got😂
@@plantedlife , you already know , the ewes.
Now I know you're asking about positions.
While nobody was awake to see this , I do has vivid imagination.
Male goats and sheep have long , thin peens that need a lite touch anyway.
And while it was barely old enough to get horny , and had no back legs , it was the only male for miles around.
To quote a parrot "Any port in a storm."
My guess is that it happened like this.
They backed up to his face for him to lick and get hard.
Then laid down and let him climb on top.
Animals can do it lots of ways.
I once saw a male bird grinding between a female's wings outside a library.
She just stood there and let him hump.
Please elaborate, I also don't get it
The "mute sparrow" wordplay was wild. Good stuff.
Osiris was cut into pieces and scattered in the Nile so his wife and the wife of his killer find all the pieces but one piece that she would definitely miss ;) so they make a new one and he comes back to life but is stuck as the king of the dead since he still died and isn’t fully whole
She would definitely miss that part indeed! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I remember in some versions, that missing piece was eaten by a fish .
I’m not sure but I remember the replacement was made from wood. Of course Isis could have made it from gold but not by my recollection.
Yeah I was about to comment this. This was a different version to the box one she mentioned that he was divided into twenty six pieces.
no matter where i am it seems to be danganronpa related
I've come across a retelling (I'm not sure if it was a summary of Bastile's story or came from a common origin) that explained why the seventh woman didn't receive the punishment: because when the myrtle fairy appeared, she only took a lock of hair and held back from actually harming the fairy. Therefore, while not entirely guiltless, she was not part of the murder and thus was exempt from the punishment for the murder. It also stressed that she was the youngest, which could be interpreted as her actions being driven more out of peer pressure than murderous intent.
makes sense
To say the end of the 6 outta 7 side girls is brutal and awful, imagine if Myrtle were a mortal and the 7 side girls did the similar to her.
I think the prince's actions weren't fully unjustified. Exaggerated, yes, but the fact these women were willing to shred the prince's true love out of jealousy regardless of her being immortal or not, I wouldn't want them around either.
There's solving a problem, and then there's taking revenge by matching cruelty to cruelty
@@Poldovico Well at least he matched it rather than beating it.
Honestly. Humiliation would had been merciful. For whichever part they had ripped off, they would have that part burned if not scarred beyond recognition. Then it would had made sense why the hair girl was sparred.
In some cases it’s perfectly fine
Agreed they deserved it but i wouldnt exactly consider Myrtle prince's true love, its more about something else obv
So to be fair, while the description of what she did may have been described as somewhat less offensive to justify her pardon, it really just sounds like compensation to the servant, giving him a presumably young and pretty bride as apology for the gruesome sight he was made to tend to.
I find it quite hilarious that you posted this when me and my friends were just talking about weird hbo spicy and weird inappropriate scenes that jumpscared us as kids😅
All whilst muting the sparrow? I gotta use that saying somehow in my life now.
Not sure the reason, but I find the truly classic macabre to be some of the most beautiful stories we have. Yesteryears were brutal, and fairy tales probably had a lot of work to do if it was going to shock audiences back then.
YOU USING THE CLIPS OF FILLING TREATS WITH CREAM WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE PRINCE PLOWING THE FEILDS MADE ME LAUGH
Historical fantasy smut and my class thinks history is boring there’s so many necrophiliacs, creeps and crazies
If someone thinks history is boring, they're OBVIOUSLY not studying it right. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464or maybe the teacher isn't teaching right
@@Cinnabun9 Well, just because someone might not be studying it right, doesn't mean they weren't DIRECTLY INSTRUCTED to study it "incorrectly" or "improperly"... There's usually a reason someone is doing something improperly... and eventually those reasons have a funny way of relating back to instruction and something a teacher/instructor did or said.
Schools often focus their curriculum on war, conquest, and violence as if humans are capable of nothing else. It's easy to get a skewed view, even if you find those subjects interesting or even fascinating... It also leaves a flawed impression of society and "progress".
Hannibal of Carthage was NOT as "great" a leader as some stories and presentations would suggest. Most of his tactics only succeeded because the Romans at the time WERE classically educated about warfare, and restrained themselves to the assumption "Nobody's stupid enough to try that"... A concept relied upon by the current Russian military culture, and dubiously termed "Smekalka"... If Hannibal had been "great", as has been suggested (including by the Romans), he wouldn't have wasted TWO armies trying to force march elephants through and over the Alps. It SHOULD have been investigated, and quickly abandoned...
BUT instead of finding the cultural nuances like "smekalka" from Russia, or the concept of "dying with music" as they also say, we're left with an over-rated view of their voracity for violence... AND instead of seeing the folly in Hannibal getting by on nearly "looney-tunes logic", we still have textbooks that might as well have been written by Roman generals who NEEDED to excuse their losing to a "somewhat foolish lunatic"...
It's not our fault. The schools fall short, and authentically adults seem to have a misconception that children are attracted to violence and mayhem... They also like to laugh... and Julius Caesar once attacked one of his own cities by mistake, because of a meteor and the silly belief in "omens"... He (the great Roman General) burned a city to the ground, over a shooting star...
Finding that out, at least to me, made it easier to accept life. "We all have off days" I suppose is more timeless and poignant than it probably should be... haha ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 dude I only said that because my history teachers always made history look boring
@@Cinnabun9 Dude... try actually reading it out... I'm not busting your ballz or anything. Promise... ;o)
Reminds me of a Hungarian folk tale I watched in which a boy gave a young princess one of each of his dancing pigs for a peak under her skirt, each time revealing more and more of her nude body. It was important he did that because when the king promised to marry the princess to whoever can guess her birth marks, the boy guessed perfectly thanks to those glimpses he saw
The what 💀
Why would she want pigs
Why didn't she use real money to get it since royalty means wealth
@@vennox_3 she's a young princess she forgot to grab money
@@vennox_3 and the pigs were dancing
In fairness to the 7th mistress, she A: broke a tree (not a huge deal). B: threw a stick (not generally lethal). and C: took some hair (non-gruesome and non-vital). As fairytales go, that was... a lot tamer than I expected.
I expected some cannibalism at this point.
Ah hell yeah, historical smut
THIS SHOULD BE PINNED
I think you'll love Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu it has a female vampire predating Bram Stoker
yes omgg
I remember somebody who I am certain now never read "Carmilla" recommended it to me as a "love story between two girls". It's not, but a part of me is thankful for it, I quite enjoyed more because of the suspense and horror behind it. I would really like to see a discussion in this channel.
@@fmor2779 That's how my Senior English teacher described it. 😅
@@TheoRae8289 It's really not a romance, unless constant creepy vampire predation is a "romantic" language or whatever. At least for me it was somewhat scary, not romantic at all. There are scenes that feel very eerie, and Carmilla's treatment of Laura, although yes she expresses affection, feels more like manipulation or playing with food kind of behavior.
Good story, but, at least for me, not exactly a romance. It's more like Laura's memoir of her experience with a vampire attack, one that left her traumatized. Scary, yes. Romantic? I can't say.
I freaking DARE Disney to try animating this one!
14:38 I like to think that every fairytale royal family are all in the same universe and related to each other and they all came to this guy's wedding
The way you tell these stories makes it even more interesting to listen. I'm glad I'm subscribed to this channel.
This fairytale somehow doesn't disturb me nearly as much as others lmao, it seems like a pretty happy ending all things considered
Love to see Disney’s animated version of this 😄
Yeah the woke version?? 🤪🤪
Atp i can’t tell if it’s sarcasm, a good half the population says this unironically
@@johnking6252"I'm Old Greg!"
in which they throw the prince to the sewers for suggesting the punishment of the evil bitches?
Only about 3 min in and this is already giving me daphne vibes.
For those who don't kjow greek myth, daphne was a nymph. The god apollo fell in love with her thanks to a curse cast on him by cupid, and chased her through the forrest, she was so distraught that she prayed to her dad, the river god peneus to help her, so he turned her into a laurel tree (some myths it's zeus who she prays to)
Apollo hugs the tree declairing his love for her but as she can not be he turns her ingo a lyre, and uses her branches to form wreaths for his bow and quiver
I guess you read the wrong version of Osiris story.
Cause in one version Seth chopped him into pieces and scatter him across the dessert.
Honestly, my takeaway is if your man starts going out with another than make sure you're the youngest and hottest of his Exs. Only way to survive.
Basile has some really PG tales. There is another one, that aside from Basile's version I have also got one version of in my region (the Castellonian province in Spain) called "The Flayed Old Crone"
Two old maids, sisters, who play matchmaker with the local crown prince. One of them has to hide in the dark, pretending she is allergic to sunlight, and only show a pinky finger, which she sucks to keep it smooth. The prince is smitten by Cupid's arrow (like in this myrtle tale), and the mystery lady comes to court first incognito masked, then to the prince's bed in the dark. When he realizes what a dirty trick he has been played by candlelight, he chucks her out the Palace window. Wizards or fairies discover the crone and turn her into a beautiful girl, whom the prince marries. When she has to get revenge on her sister... I give no spoilers!!!
I mean they did pull an Osiris on her. Set was able to know Osiris's body location through Nephthys and cutting his body to forty-two pieces. He throws all of Osiris's body parts all over Egypt. probably that part where they all took a piece for themselves.
If you can, please do Richilda. It's an older version of Snow White that's even more messed up than Grimm.
that would be Interesting
The Sandman has always been sinister. He takes human EYEBALLS to his owlet babies on the Moon (he's also the Man in the Moon) and he has this clockwork daughter, like a girl Pinocchio, in a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the author of the Nutcracker. And Rammstein has a song where he feeds on human eyeballs too.
When I subscribe to this channel I sort of expected something like this one to come along I just didn't expect it to get this dirty and/or brutal. I like it.
Hey I have a few stories I want you to cover next! Their called:
1)Lou's strange adventures
2)The Dragon king's palace
3) little mister Xou
4) Turtle Mark
And they are all old Chinese fairy tales and I look forward to see them being told in the channel. The versions that I'm reading right now are not goary or so far terrible, I just wanted to see if you find any darker origins of those fairytales. Good luck and have a wonderful day/night/ afternoon.
wow so this is immediately what I see when I randomly click my sub feed
prince took tree hugging to a new level
Wouldn't mind hearing a few more fairy-tales for adults; enjoying your videos either way!!
It’s just a regular fairytale
Well I suppose I meant more fairy-tales for adults as dictated by current sensibilities on what would and wouldn't be for children. @@Juliette5044
I don't know being beaten to death and rip to shreds may be worse than molten melt. I've not had either done to me, so I can't compare
I really liked this one~ the poor myrtle fairy though having to experience getting ripped apart. Just brutal but makes for a fabulous tale~
Honestly your voice is really sweet, and delivers the story so well!
I have never heard of this channel before this is my first time and that was crazy but much respect on the animation and storytelling I am subbing right now. 💯
12:37
Isn't that a bit of a continuity error? Hadn't the prince already unlocked the door and entered the room?
I think it would be interesting if you covered selkies. I've always found skinwalkers/shapeshifters fascinating. Like any Faye though, they are tricky sorts. Ifrits are another creature we don't hear enough about, and there's a creature in 3,000 Years of Longing I cannot recall that was an enemy of the jinn that I doubt was mentioned anywhere else. Also, in Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, there's a monster I've never even heard of, but I don't remember it's name !
eeeew...so uncomfy! Why am I thinking about the age of consent of a houseplant lol. Excellent work as always!
Oh he definitely watered it by hand alright
As far as old fiction goes I still remember the one about the priest from the Canterbury Tales dealing with this not-so-bright woman at confession who thought to himself "and just as he was thinking she was the right terrain for plowing..." Just like now steamy stories and innuendo are nothing new.
Hell...in Apocrypha (Elder Scrolls Online) Hermes Mora uses them as structural support since their so common and are thus of no particular value to him what-so-ever.
Technically it was only Set who killed Osiris. Horus the Elder wasn't really involved in that.
Such an interesting and strange tale - something of a thorny relationship
i want a fairytale retelling with this? or some story based off of it 😭 i honest really love it. the mom and the prince are iconic for loving that myrtle haha
I've heard about a story by Charles Perrault called "Blue Beard". The story is about a man who married a young girl and takes her back to his castle. Upon arriving he gives her the keys to the castle and tells her that she a is forbidden her to go to a small room on the lower floor. He leaves shortly there after and she decide to go to the room to investigate what he was trying to keep hidden. To her discovery found the room to have clotted blood on the floor and the dead bodies of several women hung along the walls. They were all the wives of "Blue Beard" that had their throats cut. When he returned home find one of the seven keys that he gave her was covered in blood from the young girl had dropped on the bloody floor of the room. He was angered by this asking her why the key was bloody and she told him she had seen the room exclaimed I do not know all. Then he pointed out she knew well enough and that she should take her place along side the ladies she seen in the little room. With this he decide she was going to died and that she was going to die by his own hands. Her sister and her brothers help her survive his attack. Since he had no heirs she became the mistress of all his wealth and helped her family along with remarrying a man who allowed her to forget the horror of "Blue Beard". This is summery of the story, because it is more graphic. Also I found out there has been an Opera and Stage play of this story that is very Adult and not kid friendly. It is also some times known as "Bluebeard's Castle "or "The Bloody Key."😱💙🏰🗝🩸
She mentions Blue Beard as a description of the murder!
0:27 Her viewers have no idea how true that is.
5:37 He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer WILL.
Though they're stories old stories that have been given retellings by a modern author, some of the most risqué fairy tales I've ever had the surprise of reading was "The Bloody Chamber (and Other Stories)" by Angela Carter.
I'd love to hear your take on mythology pieces, like the Greek gods, Pagan gods or Egyptian gods.
TIL: "mute sparrow" is an euphemism. In case you care, the author and full title are mentioned ca 17:28.
Watching this in bed while my husband’s sleeping - I snorted so hard I’m shocked he didn’t wake up 😂
OMG IMAGINE HOW PAINFUL LABOR WOULD BE IF YOU GAVW BIRTH TO A LEGIT PLANT???
Wow, didn't expect the tale to be like this but still, great animation and story telling.
I remember reading a Heavily sanitized version of this many years ago. Hearing the original is quite a shocker!
wish youd do more stories of Giambattista Basile, theyre usually so weirddd lol
I remember reading The Myrtle Lover. And feeling very messed up about it
Me throughout this entire video: "I'm too asexual for this."
Also me: *stays because nasty or not, I love fairytales and am waiting for some gore*
Happens all the time around here. Merry Christmas, merry folk!❤
Honestly its not that bad i find one version of repluza worse where she pregnant she gets all her hair cut off then has the babyies while trying to find her lover. Her lover was blind by being pushed out of the tower and falling in a thron bush and walk around blind not knowing where he was going until repuzal found him cryed into his eyes and healed him
Can you imagine a movie adaptation of this fairy tale?
A "smooth job", "mistress of my scepter", "temple of love without candles"... I am taking notes, I'm planning to get a puzzled WTF face from my wife tonight!
I'm immortal thanks to the powers of denial and hot tree wife
I can only imagine what concoction the author was strung out on when he wrote this.
I love this tale !!!! Thanks for posting this , it was wonderfully told !
Princes themselves are mythological creatures. With a wave of their hand they pardon any crime, and grant such fortune as to alleviate all want for the rest of your days. Not even a fairy godmother can offer such blessings.
Your voice is so majestic and relaxing 😃
Melotic*
Ah, if only MY wedding vows had contained "and wilt thou be the lady of his sceptor?"
8:04 those are literally lyrics to CPR by Cupcakke lmaooo
Ok, can’t finish this because we all know where it’s going and how it will end. I do want to add that I love your voice, it’s super adorable and incredibly calming to listen to. Keep up the good work! I’m out before someone dies, is trapped, or otherwise maimed or murdered.
This isn't as dirty as "Hans My Hedgehog". Go on, guess how the hedgehog is turned into a handsome prince.
Fantastic video as always! It’d be cool to see this fairy tale preformed as a play
My paternal grandmother was named Mrytle. She had a horrible life bereft of love from her parents and first marriage, her middle name was also Belle, so to find out her name meant basically “Love” and “Beauty” but she didn’t experience either until she was middle aged and too damaged to really enjoy or understand what she finally had… damn.
Thanks for this, I love you videos abitfrank 🖤
This was an absolutely AMAZING reading!! Thank you so much for this. I’ve been subscribed for a few years now and always get excited when I see you post. More videos like this please 👏🏻
I heard a MUCH censored version of this (basically cutting out the whole first part about the plant birth and bribery, as well as cutting out all the weird fetishes and drama from the prince) called “The Myrtle Tree Fairy” where the prince already has a Myrtle tree that he keeps on his balcony and she apparently falls in love with him over time; so she eventually reveals herself and… the story basically continues as you described, though much censored.
But it frames the other six women as cruel murderers to this fairy, and specifies that the youngest does NOT brutally harm the Myrtle fairy or her tree (having only taken a few leaves off the top of the tree and mistakenly moved the bell when she did.) and only takes a golden hair as an afterthought. The Prince also sees the crime scene, so he has proof of the harem lady’s horrible deed.
Honestly it’s one of my favorite fairy stories ever, but I’m VERY glad that somebody cut out all the NSFW stuff in the version I read. Lmao.
Can someone help me understand the moral? I'm not getting it. The lame goat gets by if there's none to block it?
Does that mean the 'lesser' ladies do just fine for the prince until he finds a superior 'specimen'? So the lame goat are the ladies and the myrtle fairy blocks them?
Just found you. Excellent. Subscribed immediately. This would have been fun for my literature classes. Of course, I'd probably have been fired. And never been able to go to Florida. Thank you for this.
There is a Czech movie called Little Ottik, also called greedy guys. Based on a folklore. Anyway it's very similar to this but different enough. He wife wants a child but can't, so the woodsman husband goes into the forest and fines a root of a tree that vaguely looks like a baby and brings it home any they adopt it as there own. Where as it's animated (stop motion) and starts eating them out of house and home.)
Man, all of those plant puns were fir real.
I swear this story sounds like a messed up version of cupid and sphyc (pls someone correct me on the name of cupids wife) but great venus aphrodite this story sound like someone who really had 7 cups of wine in a mourge..... yeah
Cupid’s wife is named Psyche! (Pronounced s-eye-kee)
@@hexinthelilypond4213 thanks for correcting me cause I forgot how to spell her name completely 😅
I think the Osiris bit was referring to the version that had him chopped into pieces and scattered around the world.
I'm laughing but my face is also this 👁👄👁
I would love to make an animation of this though.
I wish someone would talk about Little One Eyes, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
"They didn't count on a frickin TREE supplanting them". Did you do that on purpose? If so, take a bough.
6:43 The word is "the average Discord mod"
* Pauses * * Continues eat noodles before being traumatized. *
Edit: Good news not tramized.
😂 Also the king bullied the mom into giving him her kid and only gives her money??!?? Let the mom live with her daughter at least that's all she wanted.
2:35 the point is that he'd do anything to get the Myrtle (though only one eye, because he'd need at least one to see that beauty ofc)
Omg I'm new to this channel, and ur Oc is sooooooooo cute 😭😭😭
what's next? a prince who is about to kidnap a dog bc he finds it so beautiful he is willing to grind his thang in it?
I laughed out loud at the pastries image 😂 and the callback of the turkey image at the celebration feast was next-level 😮 Excellent job!
These old school fairy tales, man... Gotta love them, warts and all! They be on another wavelength! 🤣🤣
Also, I love, love, love your videos and narration. 😘
As someone who has a very dirty mind, I really appreciate this video
It always gets me how the mothers who wished for the supernatural offspring births. Never have time to enjoy their new parenthood. Because something in the stories always comes by to whisk their given little gifts away.😅 How sad.
I remember this story, but I swear it had a live adaptation. Kind of like the story about the young man and that followed the maidens and his friends or brothers into the fey realm. The maidens were force to dance at a private ball and later rescued the maidens. This is digging way back into my old memories.