Creepy Details of Fairy Tales Ignored in Modern Versions

5. The Princess’ lament about the pea
Without a time machine, we have no way of getting into Hans Christian Andersen’s head, but I’d really like to know what dastardly Freudian maelstrom was a-swirling in his brain when he penned this paragraph:

“Oh!” said the Princess. “No. I scarcely slept at all. Heaven knows what’s in that bed. I lay on something so hard that I’m black and blue all over. It was simply terrible.”