It's a tale as old as time…a captive beauty, intelligent, quiet, and selfless, inevitably falling for the ugly, cruel, and usually cursed beast that serves as her jailer. The numerous interpretations can be traced back to ancient China’s serpent beast, and the classical Greeks, Persephone and Hades. Italy’s version has a “pig king”. Most of these fairytales end, with the beauty falling for her capture and confessing her love as he is about to die, and the couple live happily ever after. But for “Petrus” Gonsalvus the story of beauty and the beast was not a fantasy depicting a “happily ever after" ending in a far off land. No, for Petrus the story was no fairytale for he was a real life beast.

 

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Sources:

https://historycollection.com/the-real-beauty-and-the-beast-didnt-live-happily-ever-after/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beauty-and-the-beast-original-fairy-tales_n_58c1d5e4e4b054a0ea694eb5

https://youtu.be/inM7P7oYM5Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche

https://husheduphistory.com/post/176770957141/noble-beast-the-stardom-and-sadness-of-petrus