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    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.

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    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.

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    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…

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    I had this book when I was a child.

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

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

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    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!

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

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    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 :<

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

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    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

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      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”.

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

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

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