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Fucked Up German Fables I remember from childhood

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Mon, 02/20/2012 - 14:25

Superheidi

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When I was a kid, I HAD this book. It is a book of German Fables narrated by a character called Der Struwwelpeter (Dirty Peter). The stories include kids getting their thumbs hacked off, burning to death, drowning, and other shit because they didn't listen to their parents.

It's incredibly gruesome and in the US today would be considered completely inappropriate for kids.

It's online for free now! Enjoy these horrible stories I remember so fondly. I think the book is still in my parent's house. Yes, my mom is German.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm

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Mon, 02/20/2012 - 22:44

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My grandmother had this book as well (yep, German). I wish I knew where it went. I'd love to have it.

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Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:43

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The worst is the story wherein the kittycats cry as the girl burns to death.

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Thu, 02/23/2012 - 22:47

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My grandmother showed the book to me because I wouldn't stop sucking my thumbs.

Imagine the mindnumbing terror, late at night, when I curled under my covers and expected the man with the giant scissors to come racing out of my closet and snip away at my hands.

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Fri, 02/24/2012 - 23:29

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ahhhh yes. Or the fear of not eating your soup and withering away into NOTHING and dying? Or falling into the sea and getting eaten alive because you weren't looking where you stepped?

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Thu, 04/19/2012 - 03:10

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The only book i read in German was Beowulf. But i was already a grownup.
Never heard of the book you are talking about, but i believe it is worth reading.
i am not a child anymore - I hope i won't be too scared

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:54

Lazlo Pachoulli

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Venetian fritella

Here the ingredients you need to make the typical Venetian frittelle:

* My Nonna, Italian grandmother used to make these. She was from Venice. There is a very scary Italian story about a magic guy who specifically asked for a child to save him one frittela as a promise for lending the mother a pot to cook them in.. The child ate all the fritella and so Barbe Lecon (not sure that is spelling of his name) sneaked in the house late at night and hunted down the child. I tell this story to my grandaughter. During the telling you must have the child hide and then you pretend you are Barbe Lecon and scare the beejeezus out of them in a fun way. Even the parents cant save the child.

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Thu, 04/19/2012 - 21:51

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That story is like how at Passover the Jewish kids all run and hide from Elijah because his ghost opens the front door and comes in to smear their blood on their front doorsteps.

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Fri, 04/20/2012 - 02:35

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Those fables twisted Germans to such a point that every few years they want to try to take over the world

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