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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was particularily fond of the one where two boys play pranks on adults. Until they get ground to crumbs while alive and then fed to the geese in the end, that is...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Max und Moritz! Always admired Wilhelm Busch's drawing style.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Here in Estonia we have a meat comp named after them. Wonder what they make their sausage out of...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin hell, can the Grimm brothers just leave me alone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually it is out of Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you!! I appreciate it, I can only guess from the wikipedia page that this is "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug", and knowing the context is even funnier

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they made a children's book out of the allied firebombings?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The book is older than airplanes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

She must be one hell of a liar if her whole dress is on fire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Yo, is it too late to find another author? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

German fairy tales are dark

laughs in Irish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The only one I know is Screecher's Reach.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had this book when I was a child.

The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind's eye.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Me too. Can't forget the child who starves to death. Drawing stick figures was a pain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The twist is that it's a German Humoristic tale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

  • shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
  • fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
  • Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
  • wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
  • Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
  • etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Well that explains why my psychiatrist’s nickname for me is “Peter, Philip, and Johnny in a trenchcoat.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, ist just a meme and nobody likes smart arses. But Struwelpeter isnt a FairyTale. It was kind of a teaching book for bad behaving kids. As far as I rember, the author was part of movement, to modernize education. From our perspective ist seems "a little" harsh for kids, but back then it was really progessive.

"Grimmschen Märchen" (Grimms Fairytales) on the other hand are the classic German Fairytales. But for most of the stories, many characters in this stories have a comparable or even more fucked up life. Like many other European Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anders, Russian Fairy Tales, I dunno). ... As long as you take the Original and not the Disney-Version. For Example or spoiler: The little Mermaid isnt living happily ever after :<

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

He made the book for a child in hid family without the intent of publishing it originally

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Zu Hilf'! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Wo sind die Eltern wo?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This book didn’t traumatise me but I remember it was really dark and maybe too dark for kids.

Remembering the guy with the long legs cutting fingers off, this is horror movie material how I remember it… maybe traumatise it did

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I still remember the soup standing ontop of the grave of the boy that didnt want to eat and so he just died. Also how thin he was in the last drawing of him. It was haunting. th-1674725500

After 4 days he was "as thin as a thread".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I haven’t thought about this book or story in over 22years, and now I remember how dark the impressions were.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Most of the book yes, but the kid with animal cruelty and the racism story, were good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There were times when kids were no snowflakes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Soft shits create hard times and hard times create hard shits.

If you have too hard shits tho you should look into your diet

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