Blue Bird
Charles Perrault, 1697“After some moments, she began to perceive that the floor was all covered with blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women, ranged against the walls.”
A beautiful girl is persuaded to marry a wealthy and mysterious aristocrat, who has a blue beard and several unaccounted-for previous wives. He wins her over by throwing lavish parties and leaves her the keys to the château when he goes abroad, but forbids her from entering a room beneath the castle. Curiosity gets the better of her, and she discovers the room’s floor is awash with blood, with the murdered corpses of Bluebeard’s former wives hanging from the walls on hooks.
As she and her sister plan to flee, Bluebeard returns home and is furious to discover blood on the room key. Before he can behead her, however, her brothers arrive and save her. Perrault’s tale is believed to be based on the real trial of Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century aristocrat and soldier who was hanged and burned for the murder of between 60 and 200 children in 1440.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/the-real-story-behind-eve_n_4239730.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/super-dark-origins-behind-your-favorite-disney-movies See More
(the second link isn't very good but you get the point)
If I find more I'll put them here :3