1, Juniper Tree
This story comes from Grimm's Fairy Tales. When I was a child, I just felt that my stepmother finally got the punishment she deserved, which made people happy. But when I grew up, I looked back at this fairy tale and felt inexplicable horror in my heart.
The hero of this story is a little boy who was killed by his stepmother who crushed his head with a box. Then his stepmother gave the boy's body to cook the meat, the boy's father. The boy's bone turned into a bird and dragged a millstone to crush his stepmother to death. After that, the boy returned to adulthood and ate with his sister and father.
After reading the whole story, I really felt a kind of surprise. First, the beheading killed people, and then the body cook the meat. This kind of plot is also very scary in a normal novel. It can even be said that this is completely restricted, and I can't figure out why a fairy tale is so dark.
2. Blue Beard
This story also comes from Grimm's Fairy Tales. I found that many Grimm's fairy tales seem to have many dark elements, perhaps because the fairy tales collected by the people are inherently flawed, which is doomed to contain many adult things.
This story mainly tells that a man named Blue Beard invited two sisters to his castle and proposed to them. The younger of the two sisters agreed to Bluebeard's proposal. Later Bluebeard went out on business, gave her a key to open all the doors of the castle, and told her never to open the last door.
My sister didn't care about her curiosity, so she opened the door and found the bodies of Bluebeard's previous wives inside. She was so scared that the key fell to the ground and was stained with blood. Just as she tried to escape, Bluebeard came back and found the blood of the key. Knowing that he had gone to the last room, she wanted to kill him. As a result, the girl's brothers arrived and killed Bluebeard, and the family lived a happy life.