The story of Beauty and the Beast. Did you know that it was inspired by a true story?
Yes, this is true. The story began when it was the birthday of one of the kings of France, and relatives and nobles came to present gifts to the king. During that period, everyone’s passion was to obtain different, strange, and rare things.
Everyone began to present gifts to the king. Some of them brought a camel from Arab countries that looked strange to the people of Europe, and some of them presented rare antiquities. The gifts continued until one of them presented a large cage completely covered with cloth, so that what was inside it was not visible.
Some people thought it was a monkey or a gorilla or anything like that, but why does no one hear any animal sound coming from the cage?!
After he reached the cage near the king, he quietly removed the cloth from above the cage....
Everyone looked at the cage in amazement, and the women felt afraid, and the children began to cry as they looked at the cage with fear, and the men were immersed in wonder, what is this creature?!
He is neither a monkey nor a gorilla, and he resembles a human in his structure, but he is frightening, and his entire body is covered with abundant black hair, as if he were a lion but with black hair.
The king, like everyone else, asked: What is this creature?
The man replied: We do not know, my lord, but he looks like a predatory animal and speaks like a human. They caught him in one of the isolated places, and then he uttered a word and repeated it many times while pointing at himself. I think this word is his name.
The astonishment appeared on the king’s face and he said: So he is speaking.
The man replied: Yes, it is a talking predator.
The king was very happy with the gift and ordered it to be placed with the king’s collection of animals in the palace. Scientists began examining it every day to find out what this strange animal was.
And they couldn't figure out what it was?
But rest assured that he will not harm or prey on anyone.
So the king ordered him to be taken out from among the animals and tried to be trained and taught to be a pet. Indeed, they took him out from among the animals and taught him to read, write, and speak French, and he achieved progress.
But everyone is still thinking, what is this thing?
They thought he was a werewolf who would turn into a wolf on moonlit nights! So they put him in a cage under the moon and he did not turn into a wolf.
So feed him all kinds of meat so that he can grow fangs! He did not grow fangs or grow long teeth, but rather remained as they were.
Finally, someone suggested that he would be who he is if they married him to a woman, and the one who suggested it said: If we married him to a woman and he was alone with her, his true nature would be revealed to her. If he were a wolf, he would appear as a wolf, and if he were a beast, he would turn into a beast and we would know his truth.
But who is this woman who would agree to marry him?
Who would accept this monster and monster as her husband?
All the women who were offered to marry this monster, as they always called him because of his hideous appearance, refused.
But a strange curiosity developed in the king, and those around him ignited it in his mind to know his truth, because in their minds he had become like a myth and a mysterious mystery. Here, someone cunningly suggested to the king that he use his authority and order one of the women to marry him.
Indeed, the king issued an order to one of the beautiful women working in the palace to marry him...
The beautiful woman who was ordered by the king to marry him was unable to disobey the king’s order, and the time for the wedding had come, and the beautiful woman was terrified with fear just by thinking about him, so they prepared a room for them with openings so that they could watch her while they were alone to discover the truth.
After they entered the room and the beautiful woman was terrified of fear of him and everyone was watching while they did not know, the monster looked at her and she was terrified of fear of him. He extended his hand until he approached her face, and tears flowed from her eyes. He left her while looking at her with pity and went to sleep amidst the anger of everyone watching and waiting to see the truth of this monster creature. .
They kept watching the two of them every night, and every night he did the same thing until they got bored and stopped watching them.
As days go by, the beautiful wife discovers that this monster is just a human being, a cardiologist, but he has hair that covers his entire body, even his face, making him look this ugly. She falls in love with him, falls in love with him, and they have a number of children, four of whom inherited their father’s hair, which covers the rest of the body.
Although the story of the movie had a happy ending, the truth was the opposite, as the king snatched the children from them and gave the children as gifts to his loved ones and friends, and anyone who wanted a different gift would keep them in his palace like a strange masterpiece.
After the revolutions occurred in France and the fall of the monarchy, and the family became free after being inherited by kings, the family left France to escape the people, and it is said that they headed to Italy and then disappeared from the limelight.
From this story, someone was inspired by the famous story of Beauty and the Beast.
Years after this story, a number of similar cases appeared in Mexico and America, so scientists conducted tests to analyze this strange matter.
Then they discovered that it was just a mistake in the body’s hormones that caused hair to grow in unusual parts of the body, such as the face, hands, and the rest of the body, but the matter increased in some cases as a result of the presence of some genetic hormones, which made the matter get worse and hair became abundant throughout the body.