- My life is a fairy tale- That sounds wonderful!- *German* fairy tale

[severtz@mastodon.online]

@lcamtuf Snip, snap, they went so fast

that both his thumbs were off at last.

(I had an English version when I was little.)

[ganxel@oldbytes.space]

@log @lcamtuf ouch! There are certainly fewer gruesome deaths in modern children's books. My youngest kid seems to prefer the old brutal style.

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ganxel @lcamtuf The moral lesson of the tale is, of course, to always do exactly what your cats tell you to do, the instant they speak, without delay.

[oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online]

Der Struwwelpeter
Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Struwwelpeter/Die_gar_traurige_Geschichte_mit_dem_Feuerzeug

[derek_diy@mastodon.ie]

@lcamtuf

Thise stories have been written by a teacher for his son to scare the sh*** out of him and make him more obedient.

Edit: Heinrich Hoffmann was a Doctor and Psychiatrist and not a Teacher.

That book became quiet popular later in raising children.

Today the educational attempt is seen as gruel and inappropiate.

I was always scared of the Thumpsucker story, though I never thucked my thump.

Read Grimms Fairytails too.

They never end in that nice Disney style.

[uncleslacky@federate.social]

@lcamtuf Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HLTuIyL70

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@Derek_DIY @lcamtuf I am German, and I heard the Grimm versions of all those fairytales way before watching the Disney animations. And I liked the original versions much better. Being scary and disturbing is the whole point of fairytales. It's the stuff grandmothers told their grandchildren to prepare them for a scary world.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@lcamtuf Eh, that doesn't seem so bad... The cats seem to be enjoying it!

[krono@toot.berlin]

@lcamtuf I read that when I was younger.
The images from that *Exact* edition are burned into my brain for evermore.

[mthaastrup@helvede.net]

@lcamtuf *Dane enters the chat with "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen*