Whereas many readers are effectively conscious that a few of Hans Christian Andersen’s unique tales are much more morbid than something you’ll see in a Disney film, many are unfamiliar with the remainder of his huge assortment of unique fairy tales, which generally delve into realms so unusual as to make him appear extra like Edgar Allan Poe than a author of kids’s tales.
Right here at present, we have now collected ten of Andersen’s many peculiar, and generally downright disturbing, fairy tales, all of that are much more obscure than his extra well-known works, which embrace such beloved childhood classics as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Emperor’s New Garments.” Come for a little bit wander with us into the clearly troubled however undeniably artistic thoughts of one in all historical past’s hottest fairy story authors. However ensure your youngsters are tucked up protected and asleep in mattress as a result of a few of these tales are the stuff of nightmares.
10 ‘The Stone Of The Sensible Males’
Now his ideas had been nice and daring, as our ideas usually are at dwelling within the nook of the fireside, earlier than we have now gone forth into the world and have encountered wind and rain, and thorns and thistles.
Within the tallest tree in India stands a fort fabricated from crystal that appears out over the entire world. On this fort lives a really smart man who owns a e-book during which every thing ever recognized is written. He seeks solutions about what is going to occur after dying, however the web page within the e-book in regards to the afterlife can’t be learn with out the sunshine from a magical stone comprised of the great qualities that maintain the world collectively.
The smart man has 5 kids, and every of them is blessed with one significantly well-developed sense. One can see additional than anybody else on the planet, even deep into the Earth and into the human coronary heart. One can hear grass rising. One can scent every thing there may be to scent. One has essentially the most correct and superior style. The fifth, a blind daughter, can really feel extra vividly than anybody else, as if she has eyes in her fingertips and ears in her coronary heart.
One after the other, the youngsters exit into the world to search out the stone. The son who can see is blinded by the Evil One. The son who can hear is pushed insane by all of the screaming on the planet and all of the heartbeats, which to him sound like 1,000,000 clocks. He pushes his fingers so deep into his ears that he ruptures his personal eardrums. The son who can scent is thwarted with incense smoke made by the Evil One. The son who can style finally ends up caught atop a church steeple in a climate balloon.
The blind sister now ties a magical thread to her father’s home in order that she received’t lose her method on the planet and leaves to search out the stone. The Evil One makes a doppelganger of her utilizing stagnant marsh water bubbles combined with tears shed by envy and paints it with rouge scraped from the cheeks of a corpse.
Regardless of the Evil One’s finest efforts, the daughter acquires the stone, which illuminates the smart man’s e-book to disclose one phrase: “Religion.”[1]
9 ‘The Swineherd’
For a plaything you kissed the swineherd, and now you may have your reward.
There was as soon as a prince who wished to marry the emperor’s daughter. Within the hopes of having the ability to meet her, he sends her two presents. The primary is a rose that solely blooms as soon as each 5 years and is so stunning that anybody who smells it forgets all sorrow and hassle. The second reward is a nightingale that may sing all of the melodies on the planet. The emperor is so moved by the presents that he weeps like a toddler, however his daughter throws them away in disgust, for neither are synthetic.
The prince then disguises himself in rags and stains his face with dust earlier than searching for employment on the palace. He turns into the emperor’s swineherd. In his soiled little hut, he creates a magical pot that the emperor’s daughter takes a shine to, however he’ll solely promote it to her for ten kisses. Finally, her want for the pot turns into so sturdy that she offers the grubby swineherd his kisses, after which she goes away blissful. Subsequent, the swineherd makes a magical musical rattle, however this he’ll solely promote for 100 kisses. The emperor’s daughter lusts after the rattle and ultimately offers the swineherd the kisses he wishes. When the prince is taking his 86th kiss, the emperor discovers his daughter within the pigsty kissing the soiled swineherd. Disgusted, he beats them each over the top together with his slipper and banishes them from his kingdom.
Because the emperor’s daughter cries within the rain, the swineherd goes behind a tree and washes the mud off his face. He throws away his rags and adjustments into his princely garb earlier than revealing himself to the dejected princess. He’s so good-looking that she falls to her knees earlier than him, however he tells her that he has come to despise her. She threw away a prince’s stunning presents, however for a plaything, she kissed a swineherd. Disgusted, he goes inside and shuts the door in her face.[2]
8 ‘The Backyard Of Paradise’
One second of such happiness is value an eternity of darkness and woe.
A prince who will get caught in a storm takes shelter in an awesome cavern with an previous girl who’s so massive and powerful that she appears like a person. One after the other, the lady’s four sons arrive, every being one of many four winds of Heaven. The North Wind has been drowning walrus hunters at sea, the West Wind has been watching a buffalo struggling in a river earlier than it goes over a waterfall, and the South Wind explains that he has killed a bunch of vacationers in a desert storm and appears ahead to the day when he can blow the sand off their bleached bones. His mom, none too happy with this, places him in a sack and sits on him. The East Wind arrives and explains that he has been in China watching essential males being whipped with bamboo canes that break on their backs. The East Wind is about to go to the Backyard of Paradise, the place Adam and Eve gave in to temptation. He solely travels there as soon as each 100 years, however as he’s about to depart for the backyard, he affords to take the prince together with him.
Within the stunning backyard, the prince meets the queen of the fairies, who lives underneath the tree of information. The tree weeps tears of blood for the sins of mankind. The fairy tells the prince that he might keep within the backyard and stay along with her for the subsequent 100 years if each single evening, he resists the temptation to kiss her.
On the very first evening, the fairy beckons to the prince seductively earlier than undressing and mendacity down beneath the nice tree. The prince turns into so blinded by lust that he can not inform if the tree is weeping tears of blood or if purple glittering stars are falling from its boughs. He realizes that the second of bliss he’s experiencing is value a lifetime of struggling on Earth, so he leans over the fairy and kisses the tears from her sleeping eyes earlier than kissing her lips.
Paradise sinks deep into the Earth, and the prince wakes up beside the cavern of the winds. Dying arrives and condemns the prince to wander the Earth in hope of discovering a approach to atone for his sin.[3]
7 ‘On The Final Day’
It was a beautiful masquerade, and it was particularly fairly unusual to see how all of them hid one thing fastidiously from one another underneath their clothes; however the one tugged on the different that this is likely to be revealed, after which one noticed the top of some animal protruding: with one it was a grinning ape, with one other an unpleasant goat, a clammy snake, or a flabby fish.
This unusual little story is in regards to the issues an intensely spiritual man experiences after he dies, and none of them are very nice.
As the person follows Dying within the afterlife, he witnesses a weird masquerade of masked individuals, some wearing rags and a few in riches, and peeping out from all their clothes are animals. The individuals are making an attempt to drag aside one another’s robes to disclose the disgrace they disguise beneath. Dying explains that the masquerade is human life, and the disgrace beneath their garments is the wild animal all of us carry inside us that struggles to get free.
As they proceed via the afterlife, a whole bunch of enormous, black birds start to observe the person and scream at him, “Thou wanderer with Dying, rememberest thou me?” They chase him, screaming relentlessly till the sound of it fills the entire world, and Dying tells the person that these birds are all of the evil ideas and wishes he had throughout his lifetime. As he tries to flee the birds, the person realizes he’s slicing his naked ft on jagged stones that cowl the bottom for so far as his eyes can see, protecting the earth like fallen leaves. He cries out in agony, and Dying tells him that the stones are each phrase the person ever uttered that wounded one other particular person—phrases which reduce hearts deeper than the stones reduce his ft.
The person is ultimately given the mercy he couldn’t give others in life and is allowed into Heaven.[4]
6 ‘The Depraved Prince’
It was stunning to behold, just like the tail of a peacock, and gave the impression to be studded with 1000’s of eyes, however every eye was the muzzle of a gun.
It is a story a couple of prince who turns into so bent on conquering the world that he turns to nice evil to perform his desires. His military ravages the entire world, burning every thing of their path. Moms who try to cover in smoking ruins with their kids are actively hunted by the troopers. The ladies turn out to be “meals for his or her diabolic fury” as unspeakable issues are carried out to them. The prince chains the kings of conquered kingdoms to his chariot and forces them to kneel at his ft to eat scraps when he feasts.
Finally, the prince attains a lot wealth and glory that he decides to overcome Heaven. He builds an impressive ship with a whole bunch of eagles harnessed to it that pull it via the air. The ship is roofed in what appears like 1000’s of glittering eyes, however they’re truly the muzzles of 1000’s of weapons. Because the prince travels towards the Solar, an angel seems. The prince orders the ship to open hearth. The bullets bounce off the angel, however one drop of his blood plummets towards the ship and shatters an awesome gap in it. Because the ship falls to the Earth, the clouds (that are comprised of the smoke of the cities he has burned) twist into monstrous shapes that attain towards the prince. Finally, the ship crashes into the branches of an awesome forest, however the prince survives and vows he’ll proceed his quest to overcome Heaven.
For seven years, he builds a complete fleet of sky ships and gathers an awesome military of troopers from all of the nations of the world, however as they’re about to board the ships, Heaven sends its personal military towards them: a single swarm of gnats. The prince flies right into a manic rage as they chew and sting him. One gnat then crawls into his ear and bites him deep in his eardrum, the place the poison penetrates into his mind and drives him mad. Screaming, the prince tears his garments off and dances about bare earlier than his savage troopers, who jeer and mock him.
And that’s how the prince who needed to overcome Heaven was himself overcome by a single little gnat.[5]
5 ‘The Story Of A Mom’
Weep your eyes out into me.
On this miserable little story, Dying steals away within the evening with a sick child. The kid’s mom runs into the snowy darkness and asks a girl wearing black which method Dying went. The girl, who says she is the evening, makes the mom sing each track she ever sang to her baby earlier than she reveals the place Dying went with the child. Night time directs the mom into the darkish woods, and there, she involves a crossroads. A thorn bush which stands there refuses to inform the mom which path Dying took except she warms the chilly thorns towards her bosom. As she holds the thorns near her coronary heart, they pierce her breasts, and her blood pours over the frozen branches, the place flowers begin to bloom.
Subsequent, the mom involves a lake she can’t cross, so she tries to drink it, however the lake tells her it’s going to carry her throughout if she is going to weep her eyes into the water so it may well maintain them as stunning pearls. She cries her eyeballs out into the water, and the lake carries her to the nice greenhouse the place Dying retains all of the flowers and timber that every exist for a beating coronary heart on Earth. An previous girl there tells the mom discover her baby’s flower by listening for its heartbeat among the many hundreds of thousands of heartbeats within the backyard. In alternate for the mom’s stunning black hair, the previous girl tells her to threaten Dying by saying she is going to pull up the flowers of different residing kids, killing them, if Dying received’t give her personal baby again.
When Dying arrives, he offers the mom again her eyes so she might view two lives in a magical effectively. One life is affluent and stuffed with pleasure; the opposite is filled with ache, poverty, and distress. Dying then reveals that a kind of lives is the one her baby can have if it lives. Terrified that her baby may need to undergo the lifetime of distress, the weeping mom begs Dying to take her baby away with him and prays to God to disregard her each time she wishes one thing that’s towards His will.
Dying leaves, taking her baby away with him to the unknown land.[6]
4 ‘The Elfin Hill’
They danced in shawls fabricated from moonshine and mist, which look very fairly to those that like such issues.
In “The Elfin Hill,” an impressive feast is to be held in order that two Norwegian goblins might select a bride from the elf king’s honest daughters. These maidens are like masks: stunning within the entrance however hollowed out behind in order that their backs are utterly empty.
The grave horse is to be invited to the feast, and the footnotes to the story clarify that this creature comes from an previous Danish superstition the place a horse is buried alive beneath each church. Every evening, the lifeless horse digs itself up and limps to the homes of those that are going to die. The evening raven, which is one other creature from previous Danish superstition, is to ship the invites. Night time ravens are born when a priest condemns a ghost to be buried within the earth. A stake is pushed into the bottom the place the spirit is buried, and at midnight, when the ghost begins to scream, the stake is pulled out, and the spirit is excommunicated, flying away within the type of a raven with a gap in its left wing.
The feast itself is terrifying, together with such atrocious delicacies as kids’s fingers wrapped in snail’s skins and wine from grave cellars. There are to be spit-roasted frogs and salads comprised of hemlock, damp mouse muzzles, and mushroom spawn. For dessert, there will likely be loads of sweets combined with rusty nails and damaged glass from church home windows.
The elf king’s hole daughters show their weird and mysterious array of presents to the goblin lord and his sons. The sons determine they don’t desire a spouse and like to run round blowing out will-o’-the-wisps, however the previous Norwegian goblin decides that he likes one of many hole daughters a lot that he’ll marry her himself, since she will be able to inform tales about any topic, as many as one might want.
They swap boots, which is much extra trendy than swapping rings, and dance in one another’s footwear till dawn.[7]
3 ‘The Tinderbox’
Will probably be the final pipe I smoke on this world.
A soldier comes throughout an exceedingly ugly previous witch as he’s returning dwelling from battle. The witch tells the soldier that he will likely be wealthy if he climbs inside a close-by tree to fetch her grandmother’s tinderbox. Within the tree, there are three chests full of cash, one guarded by a canine with eyes as massive as teacups, one by a canine with eyes as massive as mill wheels, and the final by a canine with eyes as massive because the spherical tower of Copenhagen. She offers him her blue checked apron and explains that if he locations every canine upon it, he’ll have the ability to move by unhindered.
The soldier returns to the witch together with his boots, cap, knapsack, and pockets stuffed with gold, however he received’t give her the tinderbox till she tells him what it’s for. She refuses, and so, as any cheap particular person would do, he cuts her head off and leaves her lifeless in conjunction with the highway.
The soldier takes his gold to the closest city and lives in luxurious till his cash runs out. He falls into poverty, however one evening, he strikes the tinderbox, and the canine with eyes as massive as teacups seems, asking, “What are my lord’s instructions?” The soldier discovers he can summon all three canine with the tinderbox, and so they’ll carry him something on the planet he might need.
Rich once more, the soldier turns into obsessive about the concept of seeing a princess whose father has locked her away in a copper fort as a result of he heard she’d marry a standard soldier. One evening, the soldier asks one of many canine to fetch the princess as she sleeps, and she or he’s so stunning that he can’t cease himself from kissing her. The queen finds out about this and hatches a plan to spy on the princess within the hopes of discovering out the place the soldier lives. For the subsequent two nights, the soldier asks the canine to carry him the sleeping princess in order that he can kiss her, as he has fallen in love along with her. The canine manages to outwit the queen as soon as, however on the second evening, the queen finds the soldier’s dwelling, and he’s thrown in jail to await execution.
As he stands on the gallows, the soldier’s dying want is to smoke his pipe. He strikes flame together with his tinderbox as soon as, twice, thrice. All three canine seem, and a weird bloodbath ensues. With their enamel, the canine seize the officers, the choose, the councilors, and even the king and queen and throw them so excessive into the air that their our bodies are all damaged up into items once they hit the bottom.
Everybody who’s left alive is so terrified that they immediately proclaim the soldier their new king. He marries the princess, and the canine all sit on the desk throughout the marriage ceremony feast, watching all of the visitors with their large, terrifying eyes.[8]
2 ‘The Shadow’
On the entire, it’s a despicable world. I might not be a person if it weren’t generally supposed that it’s one thing to be one.
A realized younger man catches a glimpse of a ravishing maiden standing on a balcony and turns into obsessive about studying her identification. One evening, he jokingly tells his shadow to creep via the crack in her door to be taught what it may well about her. The following morning, the younger man discovers that his shadow is gone, however this isn’t such a tragedy, as a brand new shadow begins rising from the stump of the previous.
With a model new shadow, the younger man returns dwelling. Years move earlier than a really skinny and superbly dressed stranger pays him a go to. The stranger claims to be the person’s previous shadow. He discovered an otherworldly twilight in the home throughout the road, the place he realized every thing there may be to know, together with acknowledge himself as a person. Then the shadow crept bare into the world. He slid up shadows within the moonlight and peered via home windows, the place he noticed despicable issues taking place between husbands and wives and oldsters and youngsters, issues that nobody must see however everybody secretly needs to know—the key, evil conduct of their neighbors. With this data, the shadow blackmailed and terrorized individuals into giving him cash, stunning garments, and status.
Extra years move, and the person falls into poverty till his shadow ultimately returns once more and convinces his former grasp to come back on a journey with him. The previous grasp doesn’t understand it but, however the shadow longs for the person to be his personal shadow.
At a therapeutic bathhouse, the shadow tips a princess into falling in love with him. He reveals her that his personal “shadow” (who is de facto his previous grasp) not solely appears like an actual man but additionally has a shadow of his personal, which the princess finds most spectacular. The princess asks the shadow to marry her, however the former grasp tries to place a cease to the marriage, as it isn’t proper for a lady to marry a shadow who is just pretending to be a person. The shadow tells the princess that his shadow has gone mad and has began to assume he’s an actual man.
That evening, an impressive marriage ceremony takes place, however the former grasp doesn’t get to see the festivities, for he has already been executed.[9]
1 ‘The Touring Companion’
On each tree hung three or four king’s sons who had wooed the princess, however had not been capable of guess the riddles she gave them. Their skeletons rattled in each breeze, in order that the terrified birds by no means dared to enterprise into the backyard. All of the flowers had been supported by human bones as an alternative of sticks, and human skulls within the flower-pots grinned horribly. It was actually a doleful backyard for a princess.
A younger man named John is wandering the world after his father dies. Whereas taking shelter in a church, John discovers two males making an attempt to desecrate the corpse of a person who owed them cash earlier than he died. John pays the corpse’s debt, handing over his total inheritance to the 2 males. Broke however blissful, he continues to wander till he meets a mysterious stranger who turns into his touring companion, and thru a collection of adventures, the companion features three birch rods, a sword, and the severed wings of an enormous swan.
Finally, John sees essentially the most stunning princess in all of the world and falls in love along with her, even supposing she is a psychotic assassin. If a suitor can’t inform her what she is considering three days in a row, he turns into a corpse in her backyard of bones, stuffed with the skeletons of her suitors. On this macabre backyard, skeletons of king’s sons from everywhere in the world cling from the timber to rattle within the wind, and lots of are organized like flowers comprised of skulls and bones.
That evening, John’s companion straps the swan’s wings to his again and, invisible, follows the princess as she flies to the mountain dwelling of an evil magician. As she flies, he whips her with a birch rod till blood pours from her wounds. The companion witnesses many horrors inside the mountain and finds the magician sitting on a throne held up by the corpses of 4 horses. The magician tells the princess what she should take into consideration and reminds her to carry him John’s eyes as soon as he’s beheaded in order that the magician can eat them.
The companion follows the princess dwelling, beating her even more durable than earlier than, and the subsequent morning, he reveals to John what she goes to consider. For the subsequent two nights, the companion follows the princess, taking an additional rod every time in order that he might beat her more durable throughout each flight. On the third evening, the magician tells the princess to consider his personal head, which the companion later cuts off and offers to John. When the princess asks John what she is considering of, he throws the severed head at her ft, and she or he turns into his spouse.
The touring companion instructs John break the curse which makes the princess evil, and when John asks how he might ever repay his good friend, the companion explains that he has solely been paying again his debt to John. He was the corpse for whom John gave up his total inheritance. John kisses his companion many instances and begs him not go away, however the traveler vanishes, leaving John to stay fortunately together with his princess, who, fortunately for John, is not a prince-killing monster.[10]
Delilah M. Rainey has a morbid fascination with the weird, the macabre, and the fantastical. She loves to put in writing lists and desires of sometime turning into an expert audio narrator. You may hear her audio narrations on her YouTube Channel, AudioBizarre.
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